The email program is at the center of your email life. It's where you read, send and organize your spam — er, mail. That's why you should be extra careful which program you choose. And that's where these reviews of email programs for Windows can help you.
So, what is the best free email program for Windows? Is there a single best email client that works for everybody? No. There are many, and one of these great tools will work perfectly for you and your needs.
Have you been using the same trusty free email program for years, or did you try a new one recently and fell in love? Which free Windows email client are you currently using? Respond here, and find out about others' favorite programs.
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AK-Mail is a slick, slim, smart and secure email client with many a talent that helps you manage mail.
Alpine is powerful console email program that makes you use email productively with automation aplenty and nary a distraction.
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Barca does most of the things Outlook does to help you organize your work and life, and it may be the better email client.
Becky! Internet Mail is extremely powerful, flexible and easy to use.
Courier is a solid and powerful and secure email client for efficient email handling.
Dawn makes moving contacts between the address books of most Windows email programs a snap.
DefaultMail lets every Windows XP user choose their own default email program.
DreamMail manages email and RSS feeds handily and handsomely with stationery, labels and related message search.
Eudora is a classic, powerful, flexible and efficient email client that cans spam precisely, too, and shows nary a weakness.
Eureka Email is a fresh and fun email experience. It shines with great spam filters and overall ease of use.
Foxmail is a nice email client with lots of great features that make email easy and fun.
IncrediMail is a fun and easy to use email client that adds spice to the messages you send while protecting you from spam, phishing and fraud attempts in a convenient manner.
Kaufman Mail Warrior is a small, but capable email client that is easy to use and even offers some advanced features.
LCARS Mail is a solid email client with an exceptional LCARS interface (the one you know from Star Trek computers).
Mail Commander has many capabilities and can be used as an email client or as a bulk email tool, more or less successfully.
marlin is a nice email client with a convincing security focus and a solid assortment of features.
Mozilla SeaMonkey 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.
Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too.
MR/2 ICE is a speedy, unconventional, highly efficient and at the same time a bit odd and awkward email client.
Mulberry is a powerful and incredibly versatile email client available for all the popular platforms.
Nelson Email Organizer helps you handle email better in less time with Outlook.
The Opera email client is a slick and flexible interface that will satisfy almost all your email needs, and Opera integrates RSS feeds in this experience as well.
Microsoft Office Outlook shines as an email client with great talent for organizing (virtual folders, fast search), solid spam and phishing filters, and seamless integration with to-do lists and scheduling.
Great for composing colorful emails using stationery, and for reading HTML newsletters. But more?
Pegasus Mail is one of the most powerful, secure and generally best email programs available for Windows.
Pimmy is an interesting mix of powerful remote mailbox management tool and tiny, efficient email client (the stress is on 'interesting').
Pine is an easy to use and rock solid email client with great flexibility on Unix and with IMAP accounts.
PMMail 2000 is a clean, easy to use, and powerful email client with great features, but also a couple of problems.
PocoMail is a great email client with hardly any weak points but many useful and powerful features such as competent spam filtering, flexible message editing and fast search.
Take your messages, your address book, your settings and your powerful PocoMail Portable Edition with you and access email from any Windows computer.
Popcorn is the powerful email client that fits on a floppy.
Postbox is a mighty polished Mozilla Thunderbird that brings together fast and ubiquitous search, the powerful Mozilla Thunderbird email underpinnings and conveniences such as a conversation view and some social network integration.
Scientific Letter is a unique email program that lets you write, send and receive emails containing complicated equations easily and naturally.
InScribe and its free version, i.Scribe, are true little email program gems.
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.
Sylpheed is a friendly and simple but surprisingly versatile email client with a few minor weaknesses.
TabMail is a simple but capable email client with Unicode support and PGP integration.
The Bat! is a highly sophisticated and efficient email client. It makes handling even large volumes of mail a pleasant and secure experience.
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.
Wanderlust is an extremely powerful, versatile and fast email client for Emacs. Its IMAP support in particular shines.
WikMail is a multifarious email tool that includes mail checking, a fun email client, postcards, tools to create stationery and a lot more.
Windows Live Mail is a comfortable email program that lets you access IMAP, POP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts with verve and ambition to connect with Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Calendar, your blog and RSS news feeds, too.
Windows Mail is a fun and functional email program that keeps you relatively safe with spam and phishing filters while offering fast search and enough room for creativity, maybe based on ready-made stationery.
WordPerfect Mail is more than an email client: it's an email organizer that helps you tame even large volumes of mail with ease, comfort and spam filtering.
