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09/30/03 - Liferea (Updated)
Liferea is simple and lacks most more advanced features, but it offers a very clean, fast and useful approach to reading RSS feeds. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

09/30/03 - Email Workshop: 5 Days of Email Netiquette
Learn how to use email without offending anybody, how to format your messages, the right way to reply and forward, and a lot more in lessons coming to you comfortably -- via email.

09/29/03 - spamPepper
spamPepper is a very clean and efficient spam filtering tool. It uses challenging messages to block about all spam. (Windows)

09/28/03 - MailChecker32
MailChecker32 is a simple, but functional mail checker that optionally notifies you only about messages matching certain conditions. (Windows)

09/27/03 - MailList King
MailList King is a versatile email marketing app that not only manages lists well but also handles mail merging and delivery decently. (Windows)

09/27/03 - (STEVEN) (Updated)
(STEVEN) blocks a lot of spam by making sure only mail from authorized senders with a valid From: address gets through. (Windows)

09/26/03 - No Spam Today!
No Spam Today! makes it easy to use proven SpamAssassin filtering (including scoring filters, DNS blackhole lists and Bayesian filtering) with any mail server on Windows. (Windows)

09/26/03 - FeedDemon (Updated)
FeedDemon is a clean and well thought-out approach to reading RSS feeds. Easy to configure and use, FeedDemon still has a comprehensive feature set. (Windows)

09/25/03 - Spam OFF
Spam OFF is a comprehensive spam and virus filtering solution that combines multiple strong methods of junk mail detection. (Windows)

09/25/03 - Pine (Updated)
Pine is an easy to use and rock solid email client with great flexibility on Unix and with IMAP accounts. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

09/24/03 - IntelliMerge (Updated)
IntelliMerge is an almost fully featured bulk email application that lets you send professional-looking and flexibly personalized mailings easily. (Mac)

09/23/03 - MDaemon (Updated)
MDaemon is a solid and well-rounded mail server that you can trust. (Windows)

09/23/03 - Opera M2 (Updated)
The Opera M2 email client is a slick and flexible interface to satisfy almost all your email needs. (Windows)

09/22/03 - Motino
Motino is at the same time very easy to use and very efficient at removing spam from your Outlook Inbox. There isn't much more to say, it just works. (Windows)

09/21/03 - LiteMail
LiteMail is a compact and friendly, but at the same time capable and flexible bulk email application that lets you send out rich, customized mailings fast. (Windows)

09/20/03 - GuradMail (Updated)
GuardMail is a friendly, easy to use anti-spam tool that can act as a mail checker, too. Unfortunately, its many filters are not particularly precise. (Windows)

09/20/03 - PowerMail (Updated)
What's in a name? A lot of power, says this email client and fulfills the promise of its name. (Mac)

09/19/03 - SpamSieve (Updated)
SpamSieve adds superior, easy to use Bayesian spam filtering to Mac OS X email clients. (Mac)

09/18/03 - Merak Mail Server (Updated)
Merak Mail Server is a complete, capable and secure mail server that can adapt to all mailing needs gracefully and integrates server-side Bayesian spam filtering as well as instant messaging. (Windows)

09/17/03 - Jetable.org Disposable Email
Jetable.org provides easy to use disposable email addresses that auto-expire after a certain time.

09/16/03 - IMail Server
IMail Server is a solid and tested mail server that combines a hands-on approach of essential features with powerful spam filtering options and a wide support of standards. (Windows)

09/15/03 - POPMonitor (Updated)
Get rid of unwelcome messages before downloading them in your default email client with POPMonitor. (Mac)

09/14/03 - NewsMac
NewsMac is a pure and well-organized news reader. While NewsMac doesn't use (and occasionally chokes on) HTML formatting, it's easy to follow web site updates. (Mac)

09/13/03 - MailMate
MailMate is a solid and easy to use anti-spam tool that does catch a good deal of spam. (Windows)

09/12/03 - Spam Xploder
With Spam Xploder, you not only get a solid email account but also great server-side Bayesian spam filtering that spares you downloading the junk.

09/11/03 - WikMail
WikMail is a multifarious email tool that includes mail checking, a fun email client, postcards, tools to create stationery and a lot more. (Windows)

09/10/03 - AOL Communicator
AOL Communicator is a powerful and comfortable email client with effective spam filtering and good privacy and security protection. (Windows)

09/09/03 - Advanced Outlook Express Repair
Advanced Outlook Express Repair recovers emails from broken dbx and mbx files reliably. (Windows)

09/08/03 - Mail Them Pro (Updated)
Mail Them Pro takes care of almost all aspects of sending emails in bulk, and does it in an easy-to-use manner. (Windows)

09/07/03 - BlogExpress
BlogExpress is a nice, simple and highly functional news reader. (Windows)

09/06/03 - geekmail.cc
geekmail.cc provides powerful, universally accessible (IMAP and web -based) email accounts with stellar spam protection and security.

09/05/03 - GraphicMail (Updated)
GraphicMail makes it easy to send rich, personalized newsletters, and also helps you maintain mailing lists and control open rates.

09/04/03 - Eudora (Updated)
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that can spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness. (Windows, Mac)

09/03/03 - NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire is competent and flexible RSS feed reader and blog editor. (Mac)

09/02/03 - The Bat! (Updated)
The Bat! is a highly sophisticated and efficient email client. It makes handling even large volumes of mail a pleasant and secure experience. (Windows)

09/01/03 - SpamPal (Updated)
SpamPal makes it easy to use spam blacklists with any email account. Bayesian and scoring filters add further spam protection. (Windows)

08/31/03 - MailSmith (Updated)
MailSmith is the powerful and feature-rich email client from the makers of BBEdit. (Mac)

08/30/03 - Outlook Reminders by Email
Outlook Reminders by Email sends Outlook reminders to any email address without frills or much ado. (Windows)

08/30/03 - Spam Inspector for Outlook Express (Updated)
Spam Inspector enhances your Outlook Express with comprehensive anti-spam filters and keeps them up to date automatically. (Windows)

08/29/03 - Outlook Express Attachment Extractor
Outlook Express Attachment Extractor lets you save attached files (or only the pictures) from emails easily. (Windows)

08/29/03 - POP/IMAP Add-in for Messenger
The POP and IMAP Add-ins for Messenger add really useful email alerts for POP and IMAP accounts to Windows Messenger. (Windows)

08/28/03 - SendLater
SendLater makes it easy to schedule a message to be delivered at a later date, or even recurring flexibly in Outlook. (Windows)

08/27/03 - Outlook-QuoteFix
Outlook-QuoteFix makes Outlook quote the original message correctly in plain text replies. (Windows)

08/26/03 - (STEVEN)
(STEVEN) blocks a lot of spam by making sure only mail from authorized senders with a valid From: address gets through. (Windows)

08/26/03 - Liferea (Updated)
Liferea is simple and lacks most more advanced features, but it offers a very clean, fast and useful approach to reading RSS feeds. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

08/25/03 - WinAntiSPAM
WinAntiSPAM is a simple challenge-response spam fighting tool that works as a POP proxy. (Windows)

08/25/03 - SpamButcher (Updated)
SpamButcher is an easy to use anti-spam tool, and it is an effective one -- maybe too effective. (Windows)

08/24/03 - Pennock's Email Notifier
Pennock's Email Notifier notifies elegantly and previews usefully. (Windows)

08/24/03 - Three Good Reasons for Using a Mail Checker (Updated)
Even though any decent email program can check for new mail periodically it can make sense to use a dedicated mail checker for that job.

08/23/03 - Vallen e-Mailer
Vallen e-Mailer is a bare bones tool to get a message delivered to a list of recipients. (Windows)

08/22/03 - Email Workshop: Outlook Express Tips You Can Use
Become an Outlook Express expert in six weeks. Learn to send gripping emails, find out how to back up your data, get rid of spam, and much more in weekly lessons coming to you comfortably via email.

08/21/03 - ActiveRefresh
ActiveRefresh is a powerful aggregator (RSS, non-syndicated sites, email) and flexible news presenter (with filters and customizable display). (Windows)

08/20/03 - MailEnable Standard (Updated)
With MailEnable Standard, you can get a robust and secure mail server for free. (Windows)

08/19/03 - Abilon
Abilon is a clean RSS feed reader that throws in some filtering and a blogging tool, too. (Windows)

08/18/03 - Hotmail Popper (Updated)
Hotmail Popper is as simple — and as functional — as a Hotmail to POP tool can be. (Windows)

08/18/03 - FreeBusy
FreeBusy is a handy tool that responds to email in Outlook whenever you're not ready to answer at once (because of a vacation or a meeting, for example). (Windows)

08/17/03 - Sharp Mail Monitor
Sharp Mail Monitor offers a simple but nice way to announce new mail in a number of POP accounts. (Windows)

08/16/03 - Shrook (Updated)
Shrook is a clever RSS feed reader that displays and organizes news in a smart (and customizable) way. (Mac)

08/15/03 - Spam Sorter
Spam Sorter is nice anti-spam tool that comes with tons of filters. Unfortunately, its standards are too high and its rules too stiff to be precise and really useful. (Windows)

08/15/03 - Bloglines
Bloglines is a great, web-based way to read RSS feeds. There's no software to wrestle with, and using Bloglines is smooth and easy.

08/14/03 - MailObserver
MailObserver is a really simple but useful and unobtrusive new mail checker that informs you about incoming email in the status area of the menu. (Mac)

08/14/03 - Liferea
Liferea is simple and lacks most more advanced features, but it a very clean, fast and useful approach to reading RSS feeds. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

08/13/03 - PromaSoft AutoResponder (Updated)
PromaSoft AutoResponder can make your email life a lot easier by automatically handling incoming mail with amazing versatility, and it supports group mailings, too. (Windows)

08/12/03 - Advanced Email Parser (Updated)
Advanced Email Parser is a versatile and powerful incoming mail processing tool that can handle many email tasks automatically. (Windows)

08/12/03 - PopHeadlines
PopHeadlines is a smart little tool that lets you read any RSS feed in any email client. (Windows)

08/11/03 - AutoReply
AutoReply is an easy to use, but quite powerful autoresponder. It's perfect for holiday auto-replies, for example. (Windows)

08/11/03 - GyazMail (Updated)
GyazMail is a friendly little useful email program. (Mac)

08/11/03 - MailSweep (Updated)
MailSweep is a great and easy to use tool for cleaning a remote POP mailbox. (Windows)

08/10/03 - @Spam
@Spam is a spam filtering tool for Outlook with a few bright moments, but overall it is not precise enough and inefficient. (Windows)

08/09/03 - FilterMy.com
FilterMy.com is a simple and efficient spam and virus filtering service.

08/08/03 - Emoticons Mail (Updated)
Emoticons Mail comes with a big collection of smileys that you can use easily in your emails. (Windows)

08/07/03 - MailRelayer (Updated)
MailRelayer provides an easy to use but powerful way to access all the messages stored in your email client remotely. (Windows)

08/07/03 - textSOAP for Windows (Updated)
textSOAP for Windows is excellent for cleaning text, but it has its share of problems with quoting it for use in email replies. (Windows)

08/06/03 - RSS Bandit
RSS Bandit is a nice, simple feed reader that lets you browse news in an organized fashion. (Windows)

08/05/03 - What You Need to Know About Bayesian Spam Filtering (Updated)
Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam based on its contents. They learn from spam and from good mail, resulting in a very robust efficient anti-spam approach, that returns hardly any false positives.

08/05/03 - FeedDemon (Updated)
FeedDemon is a clean and well thought-out approach to reading RSS feeds. Easy to configure and use, FeedDemon still has a comprehensive feature set. (Windows)

08/05/03 - NewsGator (Updated)
NewsGator does the very right thing of integrating RSS feeds (and Usenet news) with an email client. NewsGator lets you read, archive, organize and search news with all the power of Outlook. (Windows)

08/04/03 - Karen's E-Mailer II
Karen's E-Mailer II is a simple and useful mailer that lets you define messages and send them flexibly from scripts, for example. (Windows)

08/03/03 - Newz Crawler
Newz Crawler is a fantastic RSS feed reader with a highly useable interface and tons of useful features and gimmicks. (Windows)

08/02/03 - SharpReader (Updated)
SharpReader is a great RSS feed reader that knows how to organize news and blogs in their logical order to make following them easy. (Windows)

08/01/03 - Aggie
Aggie is most useful as an RSS to email gateway, allowing you to read and organize news in your email client. (Windows)

07/31/03 - KnowSpam.net (Updated)
Knowspam.net is a particularly easy to use spam filtering service. Its challenge-response way of banning all unauthorized senders is effective, but also introduces a number of problems.

07/31/03 - Plucky
Plucky is a simple newsreader that can not only display RSS feeds but flexibly extract new info from non-syndicated sites as well. (Mac)

07/31/03 - NewsMonster PRO (Updated)
NewsMonster PRO is a powerful RSS feed reader with versatile tools to archive, search and organize news and put them in context. (Windows, Mac, Linux/BSD/Unix)

07/31/03 - NewsMonster FREE (Updated)
NewsMonster FREE provides a very clean and useful interface to RSS feeds directly in Mozilla or Netscape. (Windows/Mac/Unix)

07/30/03 - Mail Beacon (Updated)
Check for new mail with Mail Beacon, a superb and easy to use utility. (Mac)

07/29/03 - marlin
marlin is a nice email client with convincing security focus and a solid feature-set. (Windows)

07/29/03 - Mailblocks (Updated)
Mailblocks is a great email service with a fast and easy to use Web interface and an effective approach to canning spam.

07/28/03 - Mailinator
Mailinator lets you use any email address @mailinator.com and pick up the mail at their site. Since there's no connection to your real address, you sure won't get spam from using Mailinator addresses.

07/27/03 - jetMailMonitor (Updated)
jetMailMonitor is a clever and smart tool that will check multiple email accounts with a number of useful options. (Windows)

07/26/03 - Wh@? (Updated)
You're carrying it around with you all day long, use it numerous times and are happy that you don't have to write it by hand: @. Have you ever wondered what this @ in your email address is for? Or where it comes from? Here is a bit about both...

07/26/03 - Sendmail Enabler
Sendmail Enabler allows you to turn on and use the sendmail mail server built into Mac OS X with a few clicks to send mail everywhere independent of third-party SMTP servers. (Mac)

07/26/03 - PocoMail (Updated)
PocoMail is a great Windows email client with hardly any weak points, but many useful and powerful features. (Windows)

07/25/03 - Spam Manager
Spam Manager can tag or remove spam on multiple POP accounts using built-in filters and blackhole lists. (Windows)

07/24/03 - SpamSlam (Updated)
SpamSlam implements a simple, yet effective challenge-response system as a POP proxy. (Mac)

07/23/03 - Top Mac RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
RSS feeds are an excellent way to keep up to date with information sources. An RSS feed reader will check subscribed channels for updates automatically and let you browse the news that's important to you. Here are my top picks of news aggregators for Mac users.

07/22/03 - MailTemplate
MailTemplate adds useful templates to Mac OS X Mail. Thanks to several macros it is quite flexible. (Mac)

07/21/03 - HotApoc
HotApoc is a simple and easy to use Hotmail to POP tool that lets you read and write Hotmail messages with your favorite email program. (Windows)

07/20/03 - Shrook
Shrook is a clever RSS feed reader that displays and organizes news in a smart (and customizable) way. (Mac)

07/19/03 - Awasu Personal Edition
Awasu Personal Edition is an extremely feature-rich RSS feed reader. The option to enhance it with plugins and hooks in particular makes Awasu a powerful aggregator, in spite of some limitations. (Windows)

07/18/03 - SpamBayes Outlook Addin
The SpamBayes Outlook Addin employs sophisticated analysis using Bayesian statistics to rid your Outlook Inbox of junk mail precisely and in an easy to use manner. (Windows)

07/17/03 - G-Lock EasyMail Professional (Updated)
Send personal, rich HTML-formatted (or rich plain text...) emails easily, and in bulk with G-Lock EasyMail Professional. (Windows)

07/17/03 - SpamSlam
SpamSlam implements a simple, yet effective challenge-response system as a POP proxy. (Mac)

07/15/03 - MailRelayer
MailRelayer provides an easy to use but powerful way to access all the messages stored in your email client remotely. (Windows)

07/14/03 - Sylpheed (Updated)
Sylpheed is a friendly and simple, but surprisingly versatile Linux email client with a few minor weaknesses. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

07/14/03 - Wildgrape NewsDesk
Wildgrape NewsDesk is a RSS feed reader that makes it easy to follow and find news (also via its system tray icon menu). (Windows)

07/14/03 - SlashDock
SlashDock is a nice way to keep up with the latest headlines via the Mac OS X Dock. (Mac)

07/13/03 - SharpReader
SharpReader is a great RSS feed reader that knows how to organize news and blogs in their logical order to make following them easy. (Windows)

07/13/03 - Pears
Pears is a simple, but functional RSS feed reader that gets you through the news in no time. (Windows, Mac, Linux/BSD/Unix)

07/12/03 - Feedreader
Feedreader is a clean RSS feed client with fantastic new article notification and an organized interface to following the news. (Windows)

07/11/03 - Emoticons Mail
Emoticons Mail comes with a big collection of smileys that you can use easily in your emails. (Windows)

07/11/03 - Popcorn (Updated)
Popcorn is the powerful email client that fits on a floppy. (Windows)

07/10/03 - K9 (Updated)
K9 is a wonderfully precise, easy to use and fast learning Bayesian spam filtering tool. (Windows)

07/10/03 - NewsMonster PRO
NewsMonster PRO is a powerful RSS feed reader with versatile tools to archive, search and organize news and put them in context. (Windows, Mac, Linux/BSD/Unix)

07/10/03 - SpamGunner
SpamGunner is a solid anti-spam tool for POP accounts. Unfortunately, SpamGunner's filters -- frequently updated and not useless -- don't achieve the accuracy of Bayesian or scoring filtering. (Windows)

07/09/03 - PocoMail (Updated)
PocoMail is a great Windows email client with hardly any weak points, but many useful and powerful features. (Windows)

07/08/03 - Oddpost (Updated)
Boasting a rich Web interface, superior Bayesian spam filters and support for RSS feeds, Oddpost makes a great email service.

07/07/03 - BlogStreet Info Aggregator
BlogStreet Info Aggregator is a great and highly recommended service that lets you read (and filter, organize, share and archive) RSS feeds via email. Info Aggregator comes with IMAP and web access.

07/06/03 - Top Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators
RSS feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to read news and weblogs. To get the most out of newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though, that lets you organize, search, categorize and use news items just like emails. Here are my top picks for reading news on Windows.

07/06/03 - FeedDemon
FeedDemon is a clean and well thought-out approach to reading RSS feeds. Easy to configure and use, FeedDemon still has a comprehensive feature set. (Windows)

07/06/03 - AmphetaDesk
AmphetaDesk is a solid aggregator of RSS feeds and displays them in a highly customizable web page. (Windows, Mac, Linux/BSD/Unix)

07/06/03 - Radio UserLand
Radio UserLand is great for blogging hence and forth (and reading RSS feeds in between), but as a news reader Radio UserLand is actually rather pathetic. (Windows, Mac)

07/06/03 - NewsMonster FREE
NewsMonster FREE provides a very clean and useful interface to RSS feeds directly in Mozilla or Netscape. (Windows/Mac/Unix)

07/06/03 - Blago RSS Newsreader
Blago RSS Newsreader is a tiny aggregator of RSS feeds. It works great for reading the latest news on a few sites. (Windows)

07/06/03 - NetNewsWire Lite
NetNewsWire Lite is a simple way to read the news that come via RSS. It comes with tons of feeds already in the "sites drawer" so you can start immediately. (Mac)

07/05/03 - NewsGator
NewsGator does the very right thing of integrating RSS feeds with an email client. NewsGator lets you read, archive, organize and search news with all the power of Outlook. (Windows)

07/04/03 - Disruptor OL
Disruptor OL is a thorough and highly effective approach to eliminating spam from your Outlook Inbox. (Windows)

07/03/03 - SpamEater Pro (Updated)
SpamEater Pro is a capable and flexible, but easy to use anti-spam tool that combines content filters with checking blacklists. (Windows)

07/03/03 - SpamWeed (Updated)
SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering. (Windows)

07/01/03 - Knowspam.net (Updated)
Knowspam.net is a particularly easy to use spam filtering service. Its challenge-response way of banning all unauthorized senders is effective, but also introduces a number of problems.

06/30/03 - Netscape (Updated)
Netscape is a versatile, powerful and security-conscious email client that also takes care of the spam problem in an easy and effective manner. (Windows, Mac, Unix)

06/30/03 - NetMailBot (Updated)
NetMailBot is an extremely flexible tool for creating automated mailings of all kinds. With its powerful database connectivity and mail merging it also makes a great email marketing application. (Windows)

06/29/03 - InBoxer
InBoxer implements great Bayesian spam filtering in an intelligent and easy to use way. It's just a pity that it only supports Outlook. (Windows)

06/28/03 - AnswerTool (Updated)
AnswerTool makes it easy to build a knowledge base of answers to commonly asked questions and avoid typing the same replies again and again. (Windows)

06/28/03 - Aliencamel (Updated)
Aliencamel can render your email practically spam-free and scans for viruses, too. The best part is that you don't have to download all the spam while false positives are minimized.

06/27/03 - Catfood Mail
Catfood Mail is a crude and simple, but also useful and fast way to get direct access to and painlessly delete mail in any POP account. (Windows)

06/26/03 - FilterMy.com
FilterMy.com is a simple and efficient spam and virus filtering service. Unfortunately, there's no way to get back email that FilterMy.com deemed spam and deleted.

06/25/03 - Inbox Buddy
After a bit of training, Inbox Buddy does a great job organizing your Outlook Inbox in a very useful way. (Windows)

06/24/03 - GyazMail (Updated)
GyazMail is a friendly little useful email program. (Mac)

06/23/03 - InboxCleaner
InboxCleaner's job apparently is to clean your email Inbox of spam. Unfortunately, crashes, weak filters and missing functionality prevent it from doing so. But you can use it as a mail checker. (Windows)

06/22/03 - Food4Spam
Food4Spam applies simple encoding to your email address in mailto links to prevent spammers from collecting it. (Mac)

06/21/03 - Aliencamel
Aliencamel can render your email practically spam-free with a smart combination of filters. The best part is that you don't have to download all the spam while false positives are minimized.

06/20/03 - KidzMail
KidzMail is an easy to use email client. The option to create and send drawings in particular is a lot of fun. (Mac)

06/20/03 - Mailsmith (Updated)
MailSmith is the powerful and feature-rich email client from the makers of BBEdit. (Mac)

06/19/03 - SpamSieve (Updated)
SpamSieve adds superior, easy to use Bayesian spam filtering to Mac OS X email clients. (Mac)

06/19/03 - VM
VM is a solid, tested and easy to use mail reader for Emacs. It can do all you expect from an email client and some more. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

06/18/03 - Wanderlust
Wanderlust is an extremely powerful, versatile and fast email client for Emacs. Its IMAP support in particular shines. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

06/18/03 - Spamfire (Updated)
Spamfire combines sophisticated filters with ease of use to form a great anti-spam tool. (Mac)

06/17/03 - YahooPOPs!
YahooPOPs! provides reliable, flexible, easy to use and secure access to your Yahoo! Mail account in any email client. (Winodws, Mac, Linux)

06/16/03 - Apocgraphy
Apocgraphy is your one-stop solution to private, safe and spam-free email. It removes spam, viruses and privacy threats. (Windows)

06/15/03 - Spam Bully (Updated)
Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely. (Windows)

06/14/03 - Advanced Mailbox Password Recovery
If you have an email account password stored in any email client, Advanced Mailbox Password Recovery is the tool to uncover it. (Windows)

06/14/03 - Ximian Evolution (Updated)
If Linux is better than Windows then Ximian Evolution is better than Outlook. Linux is better than Windows. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

06/13/03 - PopMan
PopMan is a simple and clean tool to connect to POP accounts and preview or delete messages quickly. (Windows)

06/13/03 - Advanced Outlook Express Password Recovery
Advanced OE Password Recovery reveals your Outlook Express account and identity passwords without a fuss. (Windows)

06/13/03 - CheckMail (Updated)
CheckMail is a solid mail checker with useful message filters. (Windows)

06/12/03 - POPFile (Updated)
POPFile uses statistical analysis to sort your email automatically, and precisely sort out all the spam, too. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

06/11/03 - JBMail
JBMail is an excellent tool to access and manage a POP email client online. It is secure, efficient and portable. (Windows)

06/10/03 - G DATA GnuPG for Outlook
The G DATA GnuPG Plugin for Outlook adds easy to use email encryption to Outlook. (Windows)

06/10/03 - Enigmail (Updated)
Enigmail adds easy to use support for strong GnuPG encryption and message signing to Mozilla and Netscape. (Windows, Linux, Mac)

06/08/03 - MailFrontier Matador (Updated)
MailFrontier Matador combines multiple anti-spam techniques to get the best possible spam protection. (Windows)

06/06/03 - BulkMailer Pro
BulkMailer Pro lets you send emails in bulk and personalize them a bit, but its capabilities are limited and BulkMailer Pro not very flexible overall. (Mac)

06/04/03 - Cloudmark SpamNet (Updated)
Profit from a huge network of spam fighters to get one of the highest spam detection rates (while leaving legitimate mail alone) with Cloudmark SpamNet, an easy to use anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. (Windows)

06/03/03 - Hotmail Popper (Updated)
Hotmail Popper is as simple — and as functional — as a Hotmail to POP tool can be. (Windows)

06/02/03 - EF Mailbox Manager
EF Mailbox Manager is a tool to get an overview of your email accounts and delete mail right at the server quickly. (Windows)

06/01/03 - Mail PassView
Mail PassView automatically recovers not only your password but other account details as well and shows them in a clean window. (Windows)

05/31/03 - CoffeeCup Spam Blocker (Updated)
CoffeeCup Spam Blocker can block a lot of spam and is easy to use, but its filters are not precise enough and catch too much good mail. (Windows)

05/31/03 - AntiSpamWare (Updated)
Filter a good deal of spam easily, and complain about it, too. (Windows)

05/30/03 - Eureka Email (Updated)
Eureka Email is a fresh and fun email experience. It shines with great spam filters and overall ease of use. (Windows)

05/30/03 - Starfish Family Mail (Updated)
Starfish Family Mail is an easy to use and fun email client that protects kids (and anybody else) by allowing only specific contacts and by stripping HTML. (Windows)

05/30/03 - IncrediMail (Updated)
Email is boring, email is dull? Let IncrediMail bring fun and excitement back to electronic mail. (Windows)

05/28/03 - Mailbox Guard
Mailbox Guard is a nice, easy to use tool to protect you against all the bad things that come via email. While it is effective against viruses it spam filters are not precise enough. (Windows)

05/27/03 - SpamWeed (Updated)
SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering. (Windows)

05/27/03 - Poppy (Updated)
Poppy is a tiny and efficient mail checker, and it offers a very useful way of announcing new messages. (Windows)

05/26/03 - SpamStalker
SpamStalker is a nice tool for reporting spammers, but due to its simplistic filters fails to protect your Inbox from spam. (Windows)

05/25/03 - Top Free Spam Filtering Tools for Windows
Filtering spam is not a nice job. Fortunately, there's smart software that can rid your Inbox of all the junk mail efficiently and easily. Would you be surprised if some of the best anti-spam tools for Windows were free?

05/25/03 - Spamihilator (Updated)
Spamihilator is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Bayesian filters, has a good detection rate. (Windows)

05/25/03 - Email Express! (Updated)
When it comes to finding spam using blackhole lists and scoring content filters, Email Express! is effective and useful, but its user interface and user interaction are a bit clumsy. (Windows)

05/25/03 - MSN Hotmail (Updated)
MSN Hotmail is a solid and useful free email service that offers good spam filters, but is short (and small) in other areas.

05/22/03 - Top Email Cleanup Utilities for Windows (Updated)
Forwarded emails frequently contain > chars in all the wrong places. Fortunately, there are Windows utilities that will remove these annoying characters and reformat the mail for easier reading and further usage.

05/22/03 - Quote Stripper
Quote Stripper is simple and does its job reliably. Unfortunately, it restricts its job description to removing '>' characters. (Winoows)

05/21/03 - KnockKnock (Updated)
KnockKnock bans spam by requiring senders to be approved, and by using statistical filtering. (Windows)

05/20/03 - SpamEnder
SpamEnder implements a simple concept (only mail from authorized senders is let through) in a simple and easy to use way. (Windows)

05/18/03 - Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook (Updated)
You love Outlook, but you hate spam? There are great plug-ins for Outlook that wade through the new mails for you, sorting out the spam automatically. Here are the greatest of the great.

05/18/03 - Ella
Ella is a wonderful and highly useful utility that not only cans spam but prioritizes mail, too. (Windows)

05/18/03 - Messagefire Personal Edition
Messagefire is a clean, simple and effective anti-spam service for POP accounts.

05/16/03 - InboxShield (Updated)
As long as it doesn't crash Outlook, InboxShield is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool. (Windows)

05/15/03 - K9
K9 is a wonderfully precise, easy to use and fast learning Bayesian spam filtering tool. (Windows)

05/14/03 - Top Windows Email Clients for Beginners (Updated)
Some email programs tend to overwhelm you with obscure and undocumented features. Others are easy to use and a joy to use even for inexperienced emailers. Find the best beginner email clients for Windows.

05/14/03 - GotEmail
GotEmail makes reading and writing emails really easy. (Windows)

05/13/03 - SpamRoboCop (Updated)
SpamRoboCop lets you finishing spam complaints via SpamCop efficiently and fast in a bunch. (Mac)

05/12/03 - MailPictures (Updated)
MailPictures lets you specify the picture other people see next to your email address in Mac OS X Mail when they get mail from you, and you'll get to see theirs. (Mac)

05/11/03 - Favorite Father's Day Stationery Picks
Let's not forget Father's Day! Fortunately, there's a lot of great Outlook Express stationery for dad that not only reminds you to write a Father's Day email but that will also make his day. Here are my favorites.

05/11/03 - MailMergeApp
MailMergeApp does exactly that: merging messages with the Mac OS X Address Book quite flexibly. (Mac)

05/10/03 - GyazMail (Updated)
GyazMail is a friendly little email program. (Mac)

05/10/03 - Instinct Mailer
Instinct Mailer is a basic email client with a nice (inter-)face and all the essential features. (Windows)

05/09/03 - GetSmile
GetSmile lets you organize, import, create, share and, most importantly, insert smileys in emails easily. (Windows)

05/07/03 - Top Anti-Spam Tools for Windows (Updated)
Anti-spam tools can remove all the junk before it enters your inbox. Here are my top picks.

05/07/03 - SpamWeed
SpamWeed is a simple and easy to use, but effective and competent anti-spam tool using statistics-based filtering. (Windows)

05/06/03 - Top Free Email Clients for the Mac
An email client is built into Mac OS X, and it's not a bad one at all. But you shouldn't be satisfied with this default email program -- at least not until you've checked out the free alternatives. Here are my top picks.

05/06/03 - GNUMail.app
GNUMail.app is a slick email client with solid support for multiple accounts and powerful filters. (Linux/BSD/Unix, Mac)

05/05/03 - SpamStopper (Updated)
Protect your email address from being collected by spammers. (Mac)

05/04/03 - SpamCatcher Universal (Updated)
SpamCatcher Universal combines content filters and a registry of known spam. Unfortunately, the results are not as precise as they could be. (Windows)

05/04/03 - SpamCatcher Outlook (Updated)
Using scoring filters and a self-learning, proprietary registry of spam, SpamCatcher Outlook is a highly effective (albeit not always precise) anti-spam tool for Microsoft Outlook. (Windows)

05/03/03 - Hiveware Enkoder
The Hiveware Enkoder employs a smart and effective (and quite complicated) method to encode email addresses in mailto: tags in a way that will hide them from spammers. (Mac)

05/02/03 - Spamnix
Using SpamAssassin's clever filters, Spamnix removes most of the incoming spam from your Eudora Inbox automatically and easily. (Windows, Mac)

05/02/03 - SpamAssassin (Updated)
SpamAssassin provides complex and highly efficient scoring spam filters as well as Bayesian filtering through a simple and easy to use and integrate interface. (Linux/BSD/UNIX)

05/01/03 - NetMailBot
NetMailBot is an extremely flexible tool for creating automated mailings of all kinds. With its powerful database connectivity and mail merging it also makes a great email marketing application. (Windows)

04/30/03 - Popcorn (Updated)
Popcorn is the powerful email client that fits on a floppy. (Windows)

04/29/03 - Email Cleaner
Email Cleaner makes it easy and comfortable to clean up badly formatted emails. It rewraps text, quotes it correctly and can even strip HTML code. (Mac)

04/28/03 - Top Favorite Outlook Express Stationery for Mother's Day
Make mom's Mother's Day this year with a lovely, personal Mother's Day email. Here are my favorite stationery picks for Outlook Expres to get you started.

04/27/03 - Top Favorite IncrediMail Letters for Mother's Day
The best part of Mother's Day is mom, no doubt about that. But a close second is sending carefully crafted emails using one of the wonderful IncrediMail letters with Mother's Day themes. Here are my top picks.

04/27/03 - MSGTAG
MSGTAG provides an easy to use and convenient way to be notified when the recipient of an email you sent has opened it. (Windows)

04/26/03 - Filter Breeze by CleanMyMailbox
Filter Breeze by CleanMyMailbox provides a quick way to see whether your mailing contains phrases that may raise a red flag with spam filters. (Windows)

04/24/03 - Spam Away 2003
Spam Away 2003 is easy to send, deletes spam automatically and can update its filter list automatically, but due to its simple, ineffective filters not particularly useful. (Windows)

04/23/03 - Mail Magic
Mail Magic is a bare bones and functional bulk email tool that can yield satisfactory results. (Windows, Mac)

04/22/03 - Spam Alarm (Updated)
Spam Alarm is an easy to use and simple anti-spam tool, but its filters unfortunately aren't perfectly precise. (Windows)

04/21/03 - TabMail (Updated)
TabMail is a simple, but capable email client with Unicode support and PGP integration. (Windows)

04/21/03 - Anconia RocketSales
Anconia RocketSales is powerful and easy to use. It allows you to send personalized emails fast and track them precisely. (Windows)

04/20/03 - AllSpamGone
AllSpamGone almost eliminates spam by applying a strict authorized-senders-only policy. (Windows)

04/19/03 - Top 7 Disposable Email Address Services (Updated)
If you give Web sites and new contacts a disposable email address instead of your real one, you can selectively disable a disposable address as soon as you get spam through it, but continue using all other aliases. Disposable email address services provide this basic functionality, but some have other neat features that make life with email less spam and more fun.

04/19/03 - Cloudmark SpamNet (Updated)
Profit from a huge network of spam fighters to get one of the highest spam detection rates (while leaving legitimate mail alone) with Cloudmark SpamNet, an easy to use anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. (Windows)

04/19/03 - Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook (Updated)
You love Outlook, but you hate spam? There are great plug-ins for Outlook that wade through the new mails for you, sorting out the spam automatically. Here are the greatest of the great.

04/19/03 - Junk-Out
Junk-Out is a great anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. It combines the simplicity of Bayesian filters that just get it right with lots of flexibility. (Windows)

04/18/03 - Spam Sleuth
Spam Sleuth is a comprehensive and, thanks to its Bayesian and scoring filters, very effective anti-spam tool. You can even make marketers pay for mailing you. (Windows)

04/18/03 - Mailbox Filter (Updated)
Mailbox Filter has a simple, but fairly effective concept to rule out spam and malicious attachments. (Windows)

04/17/03 - Lyris MailShield Desktop (Updated)
Lyris MailShield Desktop fights spam using a highly effective scoring system and leaves little to be desired for a really helpful anti-spam tool. (Windows)

04/16/03 - SpamRoboCop
SpamRoboCop lets you finishing spam complaints via SpamCop efficiently and fast in a bunch. (Mac)

04/15/03 - PocoMail
PocoMail is a great Windows email client with hardly any weak points, but many useful and powerful features. (Windows)

04/14/03 - Hotmail Popper
Hotmail Popper is as simple — and as functional — as a Hotmail to POP tool can be. (Windows)

04/14/03 - Email Saver Xe (Updated)
Email Saver Xe is a great tool for easily (and automatically) creating backups of all your email messages and settings. (Windows)

04/13/03 - Pegasus Mail (Updated)
Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows. (Windows)

04/12/03 - Magic Winmail Server (Updated)
Magic Winmail Server is a simple, yet capable mail server. It doesn't come with many extras or advanced functionality, but provides a solid set of features for smaller installations. (Windows)

04/11/03 - Opera M2 (Updated)
The Opera M2 email client is a slick and flexible interface to satisfy almost all your email needs. (Windows)

04/10/03 - SerialMailer (Updated)
SerialMailer is a rather crude bulk email tool, but it comes with enough power and flexibility to deliver personalized mailings quite professionally. (Mac)

04/09/03 - Mailblocks
Mailblocks is a great email service with a fast and easy to use Web interface and a radical approach to canning spam.

04/08/03 - Oddpost
Boasting a rich, easy to use and fast Web interface and superior Bayesian spam filtering, Oddpost makes a great email service.

04/08/03 - Outlook Spam Filter (Updated)
Using Bayesian statistics, Outlook Spam Filter achieves a great spam detection rate and is really easy to use. (Windows)

04/07/03 - Spam Punisher (Updated)
Spam Punisher is some help with complaining about spam to the right ISP, but it doesn't achieve SpamCop's sophistication and efficiency. (Windows)

04/06/03 - Kerio MailServer (Updated)
Kerio MailServer is a fully featured mail server with a strong emphasis on security and universal accessibility. (Windows)

04/06/03 - KnockKnock
KnockKnock bans spam by requiring senders to be approved, and by using statistical filtering. (Windows)

04/05/03 - e-Campaign (Updated)
Send moderately personalized email campaigns small and simple, but nice and surprisingly versatile bulk email application. (Windows)

04/04/03 - ABF Outlook Express Backup
ABF Outlook Express Backup is an easy to use but comprehensive backup solution for Outlook Express. With a few clicks, you back up or restore all your important Outlook Express data and settings. (Windows)

04/02/03 - Top Free Mail Checkers for Windows (Updated)
Looking for a mail checker, but wondering why you should pay for such a small utility? Fortunately, there are some great ones available for free. If you need advanced features or support, you can still turn to one of the reasonably priced commercial or shareware mail checkers.

04/02/03 - Poppy (Updated)
Poppy is a tiny and efficient mail checker, and it offers a very useful way of announcing new messages. (Windows)

04/01/03 - IncrediMail (Updated)
Email is boring, email is dull? Let IncrediMail bring fun and excitement back to electronic mail. (Windows)

03/31/03 - httpmail Plugin for Mac OS X Mail (Updated)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail or MSN email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

03/31/03 - Mail Commander (Updated)
Mail Commander has many capabilities and can be used as an email client or as a bulk email tool, more or less successfully. (Windows)

03/30/03 - Top 10 of My Favorite Outlook Express Stationery Picks for Easter
Easter is one of the best holidays in the year, and Easter is a time of wonderful Outlook Express stationery. Here are my all-time favorite stationery picks for Easter.

03/29/03 - eMill (Updated)
Handle all your mailing needs, from a simple announcement mailing list to a complicated billing system with one of the best bulk email applications. (Windows)

03/29/03 - Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook (Updated)
You love Outlook, but you hate spam? There are great plug-ins for Outlook that wade through the new mails for you, sorting out the spam automatically. Here are the greatest of the great.

03/29/03 - Outlook Spam Filter
Using Bayesian statistics, Outlook Spam Filter achieves a great spam detection rate and is really easy to use. (Windows)

03/27/03 - MailNavigator
MailNavigator is a great tool for browsing and searching messages in other, even multiple email clients. (Windows)

03/26/03 - Spamihilator (Updated)
Spamihilator is a pleasing and easy to use anti-spam tool that works transparently with any email client. (Windows)

03/26/03 - SpamCatcher Universal
SpamCatcher Universal combines content filters and a registry of known spam. Unfortunately, the results are not as precise as they could be. (Windows)

03/25/03 - SpamCatcher Outlook (Updated)
Using scoring filters and a self-learning, proprietary registry of spam, SpamCatcher Outlook is a highly effective (albeit not always precise) anti-spam tool for Microsoft Outlook. (Windows)

03/25/03 - Spam Assault! Pro (Updated)
Spam Assault! Pro turns removing spam into an easy three-step process. Unfortunately, the filtering step is not flexible and efficient enough. (Windows)

03/24/03 - Spam Arrest
Spam Arrest is an effective albeit a bit aggressive spam filtering service.

03/23/03 - httpmail for Mac OS X Mail (Updated)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail or MSN email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

03/22/03 - Spamfire (Updated)
Spamfire combines sophisticated filters with ease of use to form a great anti-spam tool. (Mac)

03/22/03 - Group Mail Plus (Updated)
Finish email marketing projects large and small fast and flexibly with powerful, but easy to use Group Mail Plus. (Windows)

03/22/03 - Group Mail Free (Updated)
If you want to send personalized emails to a (not too large) group of people, there's hardly a better choice than Group Mail Free. (Windows)

03/21/03 - spamXpress (Updated)
SpamXpress adds and updates a set of Outlook Express mail rules designed to keep the spam off your Inbox. (Windows)

03/20/03 - Circa-Send (Updated)
Circa-Send lets you send emails at predefined times, even when you're not at the computer. (Windows)

03/20/03 - Scribe (Updated)
InScribe and its free version, i.Scribe, are true little email program gems. (Windows)

03/19/03 - GuardMail
GuardMail is a friendly, easy to use anti-spam tool that can act as a mail checker, too. Unfortunately, its many filters are not particularly precise. (Windows)

03/18/03 - QuipSig
QuipSig is a flexible and powerful signature tool that can change your sig on a schedule or when run. (Windows)

03/18/03 - LightningMail
LightningMail is a small and fast, but quite capable bulk email tool with all the essential features in place. (Windows)

03/17/03 - nPOP (Updated)
Send and receive email or clean your mailbox with nPOP, a tiny adn efficient program that fits on a floppy. (Windows)

03/17/03 - FastMail Free Guest Account (Updated)
FastMail not only gives you free IMAP access, they also offer the best, most powerful and most flexible Webmail system.

03/17/03 - SpamSieve (Updated)
SpamSieve adds superior, easy to use Bayesian spam filtering to Mac OS X email clients. (Mac)

03/16/03 - XCmail
XCmail is a simple and mostly easy to use email client that offers great security (including OpenPGP) and flexible message display, but shows weakness in other core areas, and in documentation. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

03/16/03 - Top Email Cleanup Utilities for Windows (Updated)
Forwarded emails frequently contain > chars in all the wrong places. Fortunately, there are Windows utilities that will remove these annoying characters and reformat the mail for easier reading and further usage.

03/16/03 - eClean 2000 (Updated)
eClean 2000 turns forwarded emails that you receive as a complete mess into clean, easily legible text with a few mouse clicks. (Windows)

03/15/03 - Munite (Updated)
Thread and organize your mail easily and automatically with Munite, an interesting and nice email client. (Windows)

03/15/03 - Mail Forward for Mac OS X (Updated)
Mail Forward for Mac OS X lets you forward mail from multiple Hotmail, MSN and Yahoo! Mail accounts to any other email address, and read it there. (Mac)

03/14/03 - Magellan (Updated)
Magellan is an interesting email client that brings the power and flexibility of databases to email. (Mac)

03/14/03 - Top Anti-Spam Tools for Windows (Updated)
Of the 94 emails you got today, 92 were spam? The most-hit key when using your email program is 'Del'? Anti-spam tools are here to help. They wade through all the emails you receive and sort out all the unwanted ones before they reach your email program's Inbox. Here are my picks for Windows users.

03/14/03 - MailWasher Free (Updated)
MailWasher Free is a simple, elegant and quite effective solution to spam. (Windows)

03/13/03 - Mozilla (Updated)
Mozilla is not only a great browser, but also a fully featured and powerful email client. It comes with great security and privacy, fabulous spam filtering and is still easy and fun to use. (Windows, Mac, Unix)

03/13/03 - Email Effects (Updated)
Create stunning ASCII art and fancy text in minutes with Email Effects, an easy and fun to use tool. (Windows, Mac)

03/13/03 - Top Fun Email Clients for Windows (Updated)
Do you miss the initial fun of email? Try one of these funny email clients for Windows.

03/13/03 - Foxmail
Foxmail is a nice email client with lots of great features that make email easy and fun. (Windows)

03/13/03 - MailBell (Updated)
MailBell rings the virtual bell when new mail arrives, rings a special bell when important mail arrives, gets rid of spam automatically, and is generally a great mail checker. (Windows)

03/13/03 - My Way - My Email (Updated)
My Way - My Email is a clean, fast and fun (though not particularly advanced) free email service.

03/12/03 - httpmail for Mac OS X Mail (Updated)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail or MSN email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

03/12/03 - XFMail
XFMail is a solid and secure email client that likely won't disappoint you. But not only its interface, also the feature set are a bit out of date compared to the fresher competition. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

03/12/03 - 1st Email Anti-Virus (Updated)
1st Email Anti-Virus can reduce the privacy and security risk of email dramatically. (Windows)

03/11/03 - eMail Bounce Handler
Keep your mailing list clean of bad addresses with eMail Bounce Handler, an easy to use and powerful tool that detects and extracts bouncing messages. (Mac)

03/10/03 - Mail Forward for Windows
Mail Forward for Windows fetches mail from Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN or POP accounts and forwards it to any other email address reliably and without much fuss. (Windows)

03/09/03 - Hotbar
Hotbar proves quite useful, and a lot of fun by making it easy to add backgrounds, animations, smileys, preset text, and more to emails in Outlook Express, Outlook, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. (Windows)

03/08/03 - OE-QuoteFix (Updated)
OE-QuoteFix attempts to fix Outlook Express' broken handling of plain text replies and adds some other goodies (colorizing quoted text, for example). (Windows)

03/08/03 - Spamfire (Updated)
Spamfire combines sophisticated filters with ease of use to form a great anti-spam tool. (Mac)

03/08/03 - Spamihilator
Spamihilator is a pleasing and easy to use anti-spam tool that works transparently with any email client. (Windows)

03/07/03 - AK-Mail (Updated)
There's barely a thing AK-Mail, a slick, slim, smart and secure email client, cannot do. (Windows)

03/06/03 - Express Archiver (Updated)
Export and archive emails and attachments from Outlook Express easily with Express Archiver. (Windows)

03/06/03 - KShowmail
KShowmail announces new mail in multiple POP accounts, and lets you preview and delete them right away. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

03/06/03 - Top Windows Email Clients for Beginners (Updated)
When you're just getting started less is more. An overload of features can easily result in a bad email experience. Ease of use and a good help system can help introduce novice users to electronic mail painlessly. But you also need to look for strong security so you can make mistakes (and you should!), and good export functionality so you can switch easily when you need a more powerful program.

03/06/03 - Starfish Family Mail
Starfish Family Mail is an easy to use and fun email client that protects kids (and anybody else) by allowing only specific contacts and by stripping HTML. (Windows)

03/05/03 - Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook (Updated)
You love Outlook, but you hate spam? There are great plug-ins for Outlook that wade through the new mails for you, sorting out the spam automatically. Here are the greatest of the great.

03/05/03 - Qurb
Qurb approaches spam radically, allowing only mail from approved senders to your Outlook Inbox. (Windows)

03/04/03 - SpamSifter (Updated)
SpamSifter is a simple and easy to use anti-spam tool that scans your email accounts for unwanted mail. (Windows)

03/04/03 - SpamPal (Updated)
SpamPal filters all your incoming mail against all the major blackhole lists of known spammers. (Windows)

03/04/03 - Defining a Default Subject in Mailto Links (Updated)
With the mailto: HTML tag you can provide visitors to your site with a way to contact you. Find out how to define a default Subject: line that will automatically appear when somebody clicks the link.

03/04/03 - Targetware (Updated)
Create rich email campaigns easily with Targetware, target them precisely and track responses in a detailed manner.

03/04/03 - Cloudmark SpamNet (Updated)
Profit from a huge network of spam fighters to get one of the highest spam detection rates (while leaving legitimate mail alone) with Cloudmark SpamNet, an easy to use anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. (Windows)

03/03/03 - Top Email Cleanup Utilities for Windows (Updated)
Forwarded emails frequently contain > chars in all the wrong places. Fortunately, there are Windows utilities that will remove these annoying characters and reformat the mail for easier reading and further usage.

03/03/03 - eCleaner
Remove > symbols, HTML code and old headers from emails with one click and eCleaner. (Windows)

03/03/03 - New Mail Notifier (Updated)
New Mail Notifier enhances your Outlook with a really useful new mail notification feature. (Windows)

03/02/03 - BoxIP (Updated)
BoxIP is a multi-purpose Internet tool that tries to be many things to many people, and includes a simple email client, a nice mail checker and some spam filters, too. (Windows)

03/02/03 - httpmail for Mac OS X Mail (Updated)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail or MSN email account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

03/01/03 - PGP Mail for Windows
PGP Mail provides strong public key encryption with a comfortable interface and easy to use plug-ins for popular email clients. (Windows)

02/28/03 - DupeX
DupeX is a simple, but efficient tool to eliminate duplicate entries from mailing lists. (Windows)

02/28/03 - POPFile (Updated)
POPFile uses statistical analysis to sort your email automatically, and precisely sort out all the spam, too. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

02/27/03 - Mail Watcher (Updated)
Mail Watcher is a nice and functional mail checker. (Mac)

02/27/03 - KBiff
KBiff is a solid and useful KDE mail checker that supports most mailbox formats and announces new mail elegantly in the panel. (Linux/BSD/Unix)

02/27/03 - Calypso (Updated)
Calypso is a powerful and versatile email client, a great alternative for people who have to deal with lots of mail. (Windows)

02/26/03 - eMail Verifier
eMail Verifier checks email addresses reliably, precisely and in bulk and cleans your mailing lists of undeliverably addresses. (Mac)

02/25/03 - PromaSoft AutoResponder (Updated)
PromaSoft AutoResponder can make your email life a lot easier by automatically handling incoming mail with amazing versatility, and it supports group mailings, too. (Windows)

02/25/03 - Merak Mail Server (Updated)
Merak Mail Server is a stable, fast, and secure mail server, and its list of features is long and almost complete. (Windows)

02/25/03 - httpmail for Mac OS X Mail (Updated)
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

02/25/03 - MailSweep (Updated)
MailSweep is a great and easy to use tool for cleaning a remote POP mailbox. (Windows)

02/24/03 - EzPop (Updated)
EzPop is a mail checker that combines a skinnable interface with useful power and versatile functionality. (Windows)

02/24/03 - Frogslapper (Updated)
Let a charming poor little frog do the mail checking for you with Frogslapper, a really nice mail checker. (Mac)

02/24/03 - BaSoMail
BaSoMail is simple small mail server. It is easy to set up and fulfills a limited set of tasks reliably. (Windows)

02/23/03 - ISMail
ISMail is a mail server with support for SMTP, POP and IMAP that works fine out of the box. (Windows)

02/23/03 - AutoMail
AutoMail is a tool for flexible, automated mail merging and fast delivery -- not more and not less. (Mac)

02/22/03 - IzyMail (Updated)
IzyMail turns Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL into highly useful, full-blown IMAP accounts, but it also lets you access Web-based email accounts via the more traditional POP and any email client. (Windows)

02/22/03 - IntelliMerge
IntelliMerge is an almost fully featured bulk email application that lets you send professional-looking and flexibly personalized mailings easily. (Mac)

02/21/03 - Spam Interceptor
Spam Interceptor is a simple and useful anti-spam tool with a radical approach, but not without problems. (Windows)

02/21/03 - spamXpress
SpamXpress adds and updates a set of Outlook Express mail rules designed to keep the spam off your Inbox. (Windows)

02/20/03 - GyazMail
GyazMail is a friendly little email program. (Mac)

02/20/03 - Group Mail Free (Updated)
If you want to send personalized emails to a (not too large) group of people, there's hardly a better choice than Group Mail Free. (Windows)

02/19/03 - MailSwitch (Updated)
With MailSwitch multiple people can use Mac OS X Mail without going through the OS log-out/log-in procedure every time. (Mac)

02/19/03 - SpamSubtract
SpamSubtract is a friendly and easy to use anti-spam tool. Unfortunately, its filters are not efficient enough to prevent all spam (and only the spam) from entering your Inbox. (Windows)

02/17/03 - Mach5 Mailer (Updated)
Send flexibly personalized and efficiently professional bulk emails fast with Mach5 Mailer, an excellent email marketing tool. (Windows)

02/17/03 - WinBiff (Updated)
WinBiff is an universal new mail announcer and includes flexible filters, but lacks mail handling functionality. (Windows)

02/17/03 - iHateSpam Outlook Express Edition
iHateSpam Outlook Express Edition adds some nice (but not sufficient) anti-spam rules to Outlook Express and keeps them up to date automatically. (Windows)

02/16/03 - MailChecker32
MailChecker32 is not a sophisticated or feature-rich mail checker, but it is well suited for the job of announcing new mail in a simple manner. (Windows)

02/15/03 - httpmail for Mac OS X Mail
Integrating well with Mac OS X Mail, httpmail lets you access a Hotmail account with all the comfort of Mail. (Mac)

02/10/03 - Top Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook
You love Outlook, but you hate spam? There are great plug-ins for Outlook that wade through the new mails for you, sorting out the spam automatically. Here are the greatest of the great.

02/10/03 - iHateSpam Outlook Edition
iHateSpam Outlook Edition is an easy to use and powerful anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. Its only problem is the less than stellar spam detection rate. (Windows)

02/09/03 - POPFile (Updated)
POPFile uses statistical analysis to sort your email automatically, and precisely sort out all the spam, too. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

02/08/03 - PostCast Server (Updated)
Send email anywhere -- and fast -- with PostCast Server, a free personal outgoing mail server. (Windows)

02/07/03 - CheckMail
CheckMail is a solid mail checker with useful message filters. (Windows)

02/06/03 - Lydia (Updated)
Lydia checks your mailbox for new mail reliably, and removes some spam using blackhole and content filters, too. (Windows)

02/05/03 - IMAP Spam Begone
IMAP Spam Begone lets you apply great SpamAssassin spam filtering to any IMAP account. It works reliably and efficiently, but different actions depending on the spam score would be nice. (Windows/Mac/Linux)

02/03/03 - Mailgov WebPop
Mailgov WebPop connects your email client with Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL and other free Web-based email accounts reliably, and with just about no configuration. (Windows)

02/03/03 - Magic Winmail Server
Magic Winmail Server is a simple, yet capable mail server. It doesn't come with many extras or advanced functionality, but provides a solid set of features for smaller installations. (Windows)

02/01/03 - Opera M2
The Opera M2 email client is a slick and flexible interface to satisfy almost all your email needs. (Windows)

01/31/03 - MDaemon
MDaemon is a solid and well-rounded mail server that you can trust. (Windows)

01/30/03 - Spam Alarm
Spam Alarm is an easy to use and simple anti-spam tool, but it's filters unfortunately aren't perfectly precise. (Windows)

01/28/03 - SpamTUNNEL
SpamTUNNEL is a simple and solid cross-platform anti-spam tool providing good Bayesian filtering (albeit not a lot of comfort) for POP accounts. (Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac OS X)

01/26/03 - InboxShield
As long as it doesn't crash Outlook, InboxShield is a relatively competent, easy to use and feature-rich anti-spam tool. (Windows)

01/25/03 - Email Saver Xe
Email Saver Xe is a great tool for easily (and automatically) creating backups of all your email messages and settings. (Windows)

01/24/03 - VisNetic MailServer (Updated)
VisNetic MailServer is a complete and feature-rich mail server with strong security, reliability and scalability. (Windows)

01/23/03 - E-mail Talker
E-mail Talker is a nice mail checker that can announce new messages in POP or Hotmail accounts by reading the headers or even complete emails. (Windows)

01/22/03 - SpamAssassin
SpamAssassin provides complex and highly efficient scoring spam filters through a simple and easy to use and integrate interface. (Linux/BSD/UNIX)

01/21/03 - GraphicMail (Updated)
GraphicMail makes it easy to send rich newsletters and maintain your mailing lists.

01/20/03 - Ultra SpamFilter
Ultra SpamFilter is friendly and easy to use and supports a great number of account types, but unfortunately its spam filters are not precise enough. (Windows)

01/19/03 - MailDrop
MailDrop is a particularly elegant and simple tool for sending flexibly personalized emails in bulk. (Mac)

01/19/03 - Mail Forward for Mac OS X
Mail Forward for Mac OS X lets you forward mail in multiple Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts to any other email address, and read it there. (Mac)

01/17/03 - Hivelogic Email Address Encoder
The Hivelogic Email Address Encoder is an easy to use and universally accessible tool to protect your email address from harvesting robots using JavaScript and hex encoding.

01/15/03 - CoffeeCup Spam Blocker
CoffeeCup Spam Blocker can block a lot of spam and is easy to use, but its filters are not precise enough and catch too much good mail. (Windows)

01/15/03 - G-Lock EasyMail Professional (Updated)
Send personal, rich HTML-formatted emails easily, and in bulk with G-Lock EasyMail Professional. (Windows)

01/14/03 - Mail Beacon (Updated)
Check for new mail with Mail Beacon, a superb and easy to use utility. (Mac)

01/13/03 - Top Anti-Spam Tools for Windows
Of the 94 emails you got today, 92 were spam? The most-hit key when using your email program is 'Del'? Anti-spam tools are here to help. They wade through all the emails you receive and sort out all the unwanted ones before they reach your email program's Inbox. Here are my picks for Windows users.

01/13/03 - Spam Bully
Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely.

01/12/03 - XS2Mail
XS2Mail provides clean and easy to use access to email accounts via just a Web browser, but also offers many powerful features, especially when used with IMAP accounts.

01/11/03 - Lyris MailShield Desktop (Updated)
Fuzzy logic is one of best anti-spam technologies available today. Try it with the wonderful Lyris MailShield Desktop, a highly effective and useful anti-spam tool. (Windows)

01/11/03 - E-Proxy 2000 (Updated)
E-Proxy 2000 has a good basic concept, but suffers a bit from limited filtering power and flexibility. (Windows)

01/11/03 - CheetahMail
CheetahMail is a top-notch email marketing service with excellent segmenting capabilities for targeted, personalized messages, detailed analysis for tracking and optimization, and many other goodies.

01/10/03 - POPMonitor (Updated)
Get rid of unwelcome messages before downloading them in your default email client with POPMonitor. (Mac)

01/09/03 - EmotiMail
EmotiMail makes it easy and a lot of fun to put animated emoticons in your emails. It comes with a large collection already, but lets you expand and organize your own smileys, too. (Windows)

01/08/03 - Pop3Now
Pop3Now gives a great, secure overview of up to five POP accounts from one browser window.

01/06/03 - PandaMail
PandaMail provides a clean way to check your POP account from any Web browser quickly.

01/06/03 - Mailreader.com
Mailreader.com provides a clean and fast way to check your POP account from anywhere, and send simple emails and replies, too.

01/05/03 - WinBiff
WinBiff is an universal new mail announcer and includes flexible filters, but lacks mail handling functionality. (Windows)

01/04/03 - Eureka Email
Eureka Email is a fresh and fun email experience. It shines with great spam filters and overall ease of use, but some features are a bit cumbersome. (Windows)

01/02/03 - mail2web
Mail2web provides secure and anonymous access to your POP or IMAP account from any Web or WAP browser.

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