Comparison Of Email Clients

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of email client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information.

General

Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.
! Creator ! First public release date ! Latest stable version ! Cost (USD) ! Software license
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Apple Mail Apple Computer ? 1.3.9 Part of Mac OS X Proprietary
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla Mozilla Foundation December 7 1998 1.7.6 Free MPL
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Foundation July 28 2003 1.0.2 Free MPL
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Opera M2 Opera Software September 1996 7.54 Free (with ads),
$39 (without ads)
Proprietary
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Outlook Express Microsoft ? 6.0.0 Part of Windows Proprietary
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Sylpheed Hiroyuki Yamamoto January 2000 1.0.1 Free GPL
tyle="background: #ececec;"| The Bat! RitLabs ? 3 $45 Proprietary
! Creator ! First public release date ! Latest stable version ! Cost (USD) ! Software license

Operating system support

The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
! style="width:16%;" | Windows ! style="width:16%;" | Mac OS X ! style="width:16%;" | Linux ! style="width:16%;" | BSD ! style="width:16%;" | Unix
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Apple Mail bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla Thunderbird bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Opera M2 bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Outlook Express bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Sylpheed bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| The Bat! bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No
! Windows ! Mac OS X ! Linux ! BSD ! Unix

Features

Information on what features each of the clients support.
! style="width:16%;" | HTML email ! style="width:16%;" | Newsgroup ! style="width:16%;" | Image blocking ! style="width:16%;" | Junk filtering ! style="width:16%;" | Thread view
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Apple Mail bgcolor=#ffffdd | Read Only bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffffdd | Limited
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Mozilla Thunderbird bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Opera M2 bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Outlook Express bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ffdddd | No
tyle="background: #ececec;"| Sylpheed bgcolor=#ffffdd | Partial bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
tyle="background: #ececec;"| The Bat! bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ffdddd | No bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes bgcolor=#ddffdd | Yes
! HTML email ! Newsgroup ! Image blocking ! Junk filtering ! Thread view

See also

External links

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