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Review
MailMaint is a POP3 client that allows you to connect to a Mail Server and download, read, reply, and delete e-mail messages. It also allows you to create and send new e-mails - thus, it behaves much as an e-mail client, through which you can manage one or more e-mail accounts, and in a much better and more comfortable way than with the typical web-based interface.
MailMaint's interface is fairly plain and easy to use. Its main window basically consists of a big grid, where all the messages you get from your e-mail account(s) are listed with their most representative details, such as the size, state, date, source address, subject, and destination address. But, of course, before you can receive any messages, you must configure at least one POP3 server. The corresponding window will allow you to define all the data required, like a description, the server's address, the port and its type (supports secured and non-secured ones), the username and password, whether the messages should be archived on your PC or not, in which location, etc. In that same window you can also configure the SMTP server, which allows you to carry out the opposite function - to send e-mail messages, for which you also need to specify some information similar to the one you entered in the POP3 section.
The program offers you a large number of helpful features, like the Spam Filters, which will help you to stop unwanted messages from coming and to define a white list (to allow some specific messages that might be considered as spam to reach your account anyway). I should also mention the Address Book - very useful to store all your contact's information and to save a lot of time when sending mass e-mails. The Automatic Dialer needs mentioning also - it will become active whenever an Internet connection is required and none is available.
The trial version of this program seems not to impose temporal restrictions. However, it allows you to work with only a maximum of two POP3 accounts, and it will not let you send out any messages, only receive them. |
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- The trial version allows you to work with only a maximum of two POP3 servers.
- The trial version does not allow you to send any messages, only to receive them.
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Reviewed by: Ricardo Soria Reviewer rating: Reviewed: 4 months ago
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What's new in version 3.6
1 - MailMaint is now Unicode enabled for display of email with non-Latin contents, Windows fonts permitting. This means spam sent with Cyrillic (Russian) symbols will display correctly, ditto Greek, Turkish and Arabic. Chinese and other Far Eastern are not normally installed in Windows (and display as blanks), but may be added from Control Panel. Regional and Language Options, Supplemental language support, beware the Asian fonts take a lot of disk space. Note this is only display Unicode support, mailboxes and file paths are still only ANSI.
2 - Improved the inline decoding of header fields, and added two new header columns, Charset and Code Page, that indicate the language in which the email was composed. Non-Latin languages are added to the appropriate header fields, so From or Subject may have [Cyrillic] or [Chinese] added to the end. Note that UTF8 means Unicode text that may all the characters in the world and does not identify a language.
3 - Added a new Non-Latin spam filter, so that non-Latin email is treated as spam and ticked for deletion. This is done by identifying non-Latin character sets, also by checking the number of 8-bit characters in the header (non-Latin character sets have their main alphabets between 0xC0 and 0xFE) so they can still show English ASCII characters. Often spam ignores the character set so just displays as accented characters. During testing, it was interesting to see that a lot of banking phishing emails are delivered with the Windows-1251 character set, which is Cyrillic, so clearly email not from UK banks (or very intelligent spammers).
4 - There are various improvements when displaying mail bodies, non-Latin ones should display correctly, blank parts are ignored, and HTML content displays as text if HTML Display is not selected. Images may now be viewed. |
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