The standard Windows 10 mail client is a modified evolutionary continuation of the application "Mail" Metro-interface of the Windows 8.1 predecessor system. The mail application in Windows 10 has received a little more settings than its counterpart in the state of Windows 8.1. In particular, this is the ability to select the interface color and background image in the options section.
At the same time, full-time "Mail" did not go beyond the specifics of Metro applications: this mini mailer, providing only basic features for the needs of an ordinary user, and the emphasis in the application is placed on a modern usable interface and ease of use with a touch screen.
Below we will take a closer look at how to set up a standard Windows 10 mail client.
Quick mail account setup
When you first enter the Mail application, we will see a button, after clicking which the wizard for adding a mail account will follow.
The Mail app in Windows 10 allows you to work with several mail accounts, each of which must be added to the mailer in a separate step. We press.
The form for adding accounts offers at the beginning of the list to quickly add e-mails of individual mail services, such as: Outlook.com , corporate mail service Microsoft Exchange , Gmail from Google , Yahoo Mail , and iCloud ... For these mail services, you do not need to enter connection data for mail servers, you just need to log in. Let's consider a quick connection of a mail account using an example Gmail.
After selection Gmail we will see the standard window for connecting to the service from Google... - email address Gmail - and click "Further".
In the next window, we press the button, respectively, allowing access to account data Gmail from application "Mail" Windows 10.
Done: account is connected, synchronization of letters.
Advanced mail account setup
To add one more mail account, go to the mailer settings section. It is there that the form for connecting mail accounts is located. We press the parameters button at the bottom of the left panel of the application, and in the list of the section that appears in the ribbon on the right "Parameters" choose.
Then we click.
We will see the same form for adding mail accounts. For mail services not included in the quick setup list, the application "Mail" also optionally provides for the ability to quickly configure without the need to enter detailed server data, but only by entering the login and password from the mailbox. This is the point "Another account POP, IMAP". However, for most of the mail services, such a quick setup will not work, and the synchronization of letters with the mail server will not occur. For mail services not listed in the quick setup checklist, you need advanced customization... This, accordingly, is the last item of the form for adding mail accounts.
For example, let's add to the application Windows 10 Mail mailbox of a popular mail service Yandex Mail... In the next window, select the option.
Next, you need to fill in the fields of the form for adding a mail account, and we need to enter the addresses of the servers of incoming and outgoing mail, as well as decide on the mail protocol - POP or IMAP. Therefore, let's take a break from the application for a couple of minutes. "Mail" and first of all, let's check if the mail service provides access to mail from any mail client installed in the operating system. So, not all mail services are configured for this by default, in some of them it is necessary to activate the permission to manage mail via mail clients. For example, on the postal service Yandex Mail access to mail from client programs is provided in the mailbox settings, in the section.
The next step is to choose the POP or IMAP mail protocol. The protocol will further determine the data of incoming and outgoing mail servers.
POP protocol works, as a rule, on the principle of unloading letters from the mail server to the user's computer. Emails are deleted from the mail server after some time.
IMAP Is a modern and more secure protocol that provides access from a software mail client to mail on the server. Mail on the server will be securely stored, waiting for the user to manually clean it.
Having decided on the choice of the protocol, the next step is to find out the addresses of the servers of incoming and outgoing mail. To do this, you must enter a query by type in the browser search engine "Mail service + protocol"... In our case, this will be a search query.
The articles on such a key request will provide information about the specifics of connecting mail using the selected protocol.
Returning to the application form for adding a mail account "Mail" and enter the data: account name, username, incoming mail server address. Select the type of account, i.e. protocol POP or IMAP.
Fill in the bottom of the form: introduce username (essentially an email address) , password, outgoing mail server address. We do not remove the preset checkboxes of the settings below. We press.
Done: mail account is set up, synchronization of letters is in progress.
Deleting a mail account
Deleting a mail account occurs, as well as adding it, in the subsection of the application settings section "Mail".
When you click on the selected account, we will receive options for possible actions, including - deletion .
Changing mail account settings
Another option when you click on a mail account in the settings section is to change the preset mail synchronization parameters and some of the settings for the account itself.
Here you can configure the time intervals for loading letters, the format of letters, the age of letters for synchronization. Mailbox synchronization can be turned off altogether.
Clicking at the bottom "Advanced Mailbox Options", we will get access to the form for changing addresses and settings of incoming and outgoing mail servers.
The site browser examined several email clients for Windows and discusses which programs might appeal to active email users who are tired of the Windows Live Mail or Microsoft Outlook interfaces.
Mailbird
An email client with an interface distinctly reminiscent of Sparrow for Mac OS. The app has won the IT World award for the best email client for Windows for the second year.
The Mailbird team understands that many users want to personalize and enhance the usability of the final product, and offers customers the following personalization solutions: color choices, customization of user interface panels and keyboard shortcuts.
The trend to expand the functionality of applications by connecting other applications is gaining momentum. The developers took this into account, so the application supports touch control and connectivity of third-party applications such as Facebook, Dropbox, WhatsApp, Twitter, Evernote, Todoist and some others.
The app is available in paid (Pro) and free (Lite) versions. Paid subscription, in turn, also comes in two versions: for a year and a lifetime for $ 12 and $ 45, respectively. The paid version offers users a quick preview of long messages and snooze messages.
Dormant snooze messages allow the user to postpone reading non-urgent correspondence for a specified period of time. After the grace period expires, the message reappears as unread.
The Pro version also offers an unlimited number of email accounts, versus the maximum three in the free version. The free trial period for the Pro version is 30 days.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Cross-platform email client from the developers of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
The creators of the application laid the foundation for the OpenSource principle. The advantages of such projects are timely search and elimination of vulnerabilities, as well as quick product updates.
The application developers did not ignore the issue of personal correspondence security. Message encryption, digital signature and certificate verification are responsible for the confidentiality of users' personal correspondence. A powerful spam filter does its job well and is amenable to training.
The functional features include support for modern mail protocols, RSS and Atom-feeds, lightness, branched folder directories. Thunderbird is "friendly" with almost any encoding, can filter messages and work with multiple accounts at the same time.
According to Mozilla, the product is used by 495 thousand users in Russia and 9 million worldwide. The austere and conceptual old age of the user interface is designed to brighten up the large green button on the product website with the inscription "Free Download".
eM Client
Simple and convenient email client in Outlook style.
Users are offered two versions of the product - Free and Pro. The $ 30 version offers unlimited account creation (versus a maximum of two for the free version) and a license for commercial use.
The pluses of the application include connection to third-party services Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, iCloud, support for touch devices and customizable widgets. Importing data from Microsoft Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, The Bat facilitates a possible transition from other mail clients.
the bat
An email client characterized by powerful security mechanisms on the one hand and the complete absence of built-in spam filters, tedious interface customization and nondescript design on the other.
Compared to free competitors, the app wins in privacy, stays on par when comparing features, and loses miserably in usability.
In everyday correspondence, the security requirements of most users are met by standard tools that other email clients offer, so the price tag of 2,000 rubles for the Home version seems too high.
Inky
A beautiful, modern and free email client.
In addition to a well-made user interface, Inky boasts the ability to work with multiple accounts, flexible filters, cloud sync and convenient visualization, within which the user is invited to choose colors and icons for different accounts.
The developers have built in the application automatic sorting of incoming letters by relevance. Messages from the closest contacts are marked with a blue drop, which means that the message is of high importance. Less important messages and spam are marked with less bright blobs and are dropped in the list.
In practice, there are often cases when sorting occurs on a temporary basis, which means assigning more importance to the most recent message. A logical simplification of the sorting system, which destroys the great idea of \u200b\u200bcaring and attention to each user.
In terms of personalization convenience, Inky is a trainable and highly customizable client.
Finally, it is worth mentioning the interesting OpenSource development of Mailpile, which is in beta testing.
This application is distributed free of charge and "lives" on voluntary donations, and therefore does not contain ads.
I always liked the Thunderbird mail client for working with gmail, but recently its portable version began to fail - periodically, when sending heavy letters, the mail client began to display errors that the letter was not sent, although in fact it is being sent ... Perhaps the problem is that I have a huge number of letters in the client, or a problem with some settings, unfortunately I could not figure it out. I started looking for some other clients to try something new. After a little googling, I found two good email clients.
MailBird
Pros:
Minuses:
For myself, at first I chose this particular program. But, then I noticed one unpleasant moment.
Some letters that are sorted through gmail filters into different folders, I did not immediately notice.
Perhaps the problem is due to the fact that I have quite a lot of filters (as well as the letters themselves) and it takes a long time, after starting the program, until the mail is checked and the numbers with the number of new letters in each folder are displayed (there are no such problems with the Inbox folder). The mail update time in the client seems to be nowhere configurable. For me, the problem over time turned out to be critical and I had to stop using this client, although in all other respects I quite liked it.
eM Client
http://www.emclient.com/
Pros:
Minuses:
- I did not ask which folder to install the program into, I immediately installed it on the C: \\ drive. (you can change this option after installation, through "settings - general - storage")
- When entering the password from the mail, a window appeared with the text: “ Error. Most likely, cookies are disabled in your browser. Check this setting or open a new browser window. “, I had to dig in Internet Explorer to make eMClient work. I had cookies disabled in it. The problem is solved as follows: "settings - browser properties - privacy" and then move the slider to the very bottom, after which we save. After that, emClient started up and started checking mail.
Inky
Pros:
- The client works not only on Windows, there are also versions for Mac, iOS and Android.
- Free to use with GMail, iCloud, and Outlook.com accounts.
- Nice modern interface.
- Supports various types of encryption.
- Choice of colors and icons for different accounts.
- Probably the main function is the automatic sorting of incoming letters by relevance. Letters from the closest contacts are marked with a blue blob, which means the high importance of the letter. Less important letters, as well as spam, are marked with less bright blobs and go down in the general list of letters.
Computer mailers allow more flexible use of e-mail. Filters, rules, shortcuts and much more, and most importantly - offline access to what was downloaded earlier.
1. Mozilla Thunderbird
The time-tested multifunctional tool from Mozilla.
Support for any number of accounts
Extensibility through plugins
Limited calendar options
Like the Firefox browser, Mozilla's email client works with third-party plugins to significantly expand the application's capabilities. Besides reading and sending emails, Thunderbird can read RSS feeds even without plugins.
Setting up your mail is pretty simple. In most cases, you just need to remember your email address and password. The program will configure the rest itself.
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Thunderbird's main competitor in the free email client market. The main advantage is a simple migration from other email programs and a smart translator.
Migration tools
Built-in chat
Thoughtful design
Supports only two accounts
EM Client has a 10-year history and many consider it the best email client for Windows.
eM Client allows you to easily and quickly transfer your messages from Gmail, Exchange, iCloud and Outlook.com, has built-in search, calendar and address book. Built-in chat supports third-party messengers like Jabber or Google Chat.
Additional features include a built-in translator, deferred message sending and encryption. If you only have two email accounts, then eM Client is a great choice.
3. Mailbird Lite
Nice email client with wide social capabilities
Integration of social services
Very easy installation
Supports only one account
Mailbird Lite is more than just an email client. This is a whole platform for communications. It allows you to extend the application's capabilities for scheduling, chats, file synchronization and teamwork.
The free version has certain limitations. For example, preview files attached to letters before opening them, or quick reading. But the free functionality is wide enough.
When setting up, you do not need to bother with the addresses of mail services, it is enough to remember the login and password from your mailbox. You can add your Facebook account, WhatsApp, Google Calendar, the free Moo.do task manager and the Asana teamwork app to your mail.
4. Claws Mail
Minimalistic and intuitive client.
Work speed
Intuitive design
Easy to set up
Small set of plugins
The minimum resource requirement allows using the Claws Mail mail client even on older computers. It will still work quickly.
The application allows you to import your settings from other clients like MS Outlook or Thunderbird. Therefore, if one of them does not suit you, it will not take long to move to a simpler solution.
Thanks to plugins, you can additionally install a calendar, RSS subscription and more.
5. Opera Mail
Open Source project from the Opera browser team.
Any number of accounts
Customizable tagging system
Difficult setup
This solution allows you to create template letters, which is especially important for business. Convenient message filters and sorting. An abundance of manual settings.
It is possible to read RSS feeds, which eliminates the need to use a browser for these purposes.
Users fall into two categories: those who use the Web interface to work with mail, and those who prefer to work in a software environment. I consider myself to be the second. Mail program convenient in that having several addresses, with one click of a button you can collect all the correspondence and gradually, slowly, begin to study it. When, in the first case, you need to open several browser windows, there is a high probability that during work the tab can be accidentally closed and you will have to re-enter passwords, logins, look for the desired letter, and all this takes time.
Mail programs for Windows 10
It makes no sense to describe all of them, firstly, there are a lot of them. Secondly, they all work on the same principle and are configured in the same way. Therefore, I will focus on the more famous and often used among users. The list will include both paid and free products.
Mozilla Thunderbird
I'll start with my favorite, Mozilla Thunderbird. It's not hard to guess who the developer is by the name :)
pros: Simple interface. Virus protection. A large number of add-ons. Spellchecking. There is no problem with encoding at all. Blocking ads, spam and dangerous objects in emails. RSS support. There is a problem book and a calendar. Search. Import settings from The Bat and Outlook Express. Constant updating. Blocking malicious objects, including images. Ignoring all the various third-party codes and scripts. Supports SMTP / POP3 protocols
Minuses: I have not noticed.
The bat
Great email program. I have not yet met her analogues.
Positive features: Encryption of correspondence including SSL / TLS. Ability to create your own letter templates. The ability to use macros and install various modules, including antispam and antivirus. Backup. Password protection of the box. Supports SMTP / POP3 protocols.
Negative: Paid
eM Client
Very similar to Outlook Express as it was designed as an alternative. It is an extended version of Sylpheed.
Flattering reviews: Encrypt everything it sends. Convenient interface. Import settings from other applications. RSS. Creation of widgets. Spell checker. Antispam. Antivirus. Synchronization with contacts and calendar Wonder Mail Server. Quick search for e-mail addresses and letters. Supports SMTP / POP3 / SSL protocols. Create rules and filters and much more.
Not flattering: Paid. In the free version, you can create only 2 accounts.
Claws mail
Pros: Supports protocols (POP3, SMTP, NNTP, SSL, IMAP4rev1, etc.). Data encryption. Antispam. Antivirus. Ability to use additional plugins. Like all similar applications, there is an address book. Autocoding. Creation of templates. Spell checker and more.
Minuses: I have not identified.
IncrediMail
What good: A very unusual program. Can add animated characters to message text, special effects and 3D design. Another feature is non-standard processing of correspondence and a set of functions that are not available in any other application of this type. For example: When a new message arrives, a lokay appears in the corner of the screen and says the accompanying phrase. Other characters can be selected. And also when designing a letter, you can choose the animation of letters and paper. And the shipment can be made in the form of a paper airplane. Use animated emoticons when answering. Plus, almost all professional functions of the above utilities are included.
What's wrong: The recipient must have this utility installed. Lack of Russian. But if you wish, you can find a crack on the Internet.
