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Minimail 2.1.1 - Email Program

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Minimail - Email Program

Minimail - Email Program

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Minimail is a tiny, fast and quite useful tool for the quick email sent in between. It lacks the bells and whistles of fully blown email clients, but has enough power and comfort to make sending short messages a snap.
Pros
  • Minimail provides a quick and easy but not dirty way to send emails
  • Support for multiple accounts lets you switch the From: address fast
  • Minimail includes an easily accessed list of recipients, supports attachments
Cons
  • Minimail does not allow you to compose messages using HTML formatting
  • There's no option to keep a message open after sending, to send it again, for example

Description

  • Minimail lets you send emails quickly.
  • Supporting multiple accounts, you can use Minimail to send messages from different From: addresses.
  • Minimail remembers recipients in a minimalistic, but useful address book.
  • You can set up a signature in Minimail, which supports file attachments, too.
  • Minimail supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - Minimail 2.1.1 - Email Program

If your email program is big, slow-loading and chunky and if the advice to get another email client is not useful and if you need to send a quick message, then Minimail may be perfect for you.

Minimail is indeed near-perfect and flawless, doing what it is designed to do — sending short emails — with diligence and dignity. You can set up multiple accounts in Minimail to quickly change the address in the From: line and set up a signature, too. Minimail also remembers the email addresses you put in the To: Cc: or Bcc: fields so you don't have to type every recipient's address anew each time you mail them.

The message editor does not come with any extras and lacks HTML editing, but that's not really what is needed for quick messages anyway. A nice twist is Minimail's ability to minimize to the system tray, out of the way but quickly recovered. Another twist I'd like to see is an option to keep the message after sending — to send it again with slight changes to another person, for example.

All in all, if you need a smart and small tool to send the quick email in between, Minimail is perfect.

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