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More and smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.
- GMX Mail offers a rich web interface as well as POP and IMAP access in desktop programs
- 5 GB online storage and messages up to 50 MB allow for lots of mail and large attachments
- GMX Mail can retrieve mail from your other accounts (including Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail)
- GMX Mail does not support encrypted mail and cannot display remote images per sender
- You cannot label mail, find related messages fast or set up smart folders in GMX Mail
- GMX Mail cannot sort mail based on past actions
- GMX Mail offers email accounts including 5 GB of online storage and POP as well as IMAP access.
- You can read mail from other email accounts (including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Windows Live Hotmail) in GMX Mail.
- All mail is scanned for viruses, and a learning spam filter keeps GMX Mail Inboxes clean.
- Flexible filters can sort incoming mail into custom folders or forward it, for example.
- GMX Mail's rich web interface includes drag and drop ease as well as rich-text email formatting.
- While you're away from computers, GMX Mail can send a vacation auto-reply.
- You can have GMX Mail delete mail from any folder (not just "Spam" and "Trash") after a certain number of days.
- In addition to an address book, GMX Mail also includes a calendar and online storage.
Behind GMX Mail's polished interface are robust underpinnings: GMX Mail is highly reliable and comes with 5 GB of online storage. Its virus scanning is exemplary, and a host of spam filters perform solidly — albeit not perfectly. You can mark mail as junk easily, though, and the filters should learn.
If the GMX Mail web interface is not your thing or, maybe even more importantly, to get your mail into and out of GMX Mail, both POP and IMAP access are available. GMX Mail reaches out in the other direction, too: you can set it up to retrieve mail from multiple POP or even Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts. Of course, you can send mail with your any address in the From: line.
True to its solid desktop email program roots, GMX Mail gives you folders and filters for sorting mail. You cannot, alas, apply free-form labels or use search folders for even more flexible organizing. GMX Mail does include a handy and fast search feature, of course, including a few search operators. Shortcuts to finding related messages — in the same thread, for example, or mail exchanged with a sender — would be nice.
GMX Mail's address book works well and a lot like the Outlook contacts you love — or at least know. In addition to email and contacts, GMX Mail offers a mature calendar and file storage. The parts could integrate better, though.
