IncrediMail Xe 5.8 build 3718

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IncrediMail is a free, fun, powerful and user-friendly e-mail program that lets you add 1000s of e-mail backgrounds, Emoticons, Ecards, Sounds, Animations, and 3D effects to your e-mails. You also get fun animated characters to notify you of incoming e-mail. IncrediMail is compatible with leading email services including Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL, and supports POP mail protocols as well as HTML mail formatting. Importing your active e-mail accounts and messages with IncrediMail is quick and simple. The program includes advanced message filtering, automatic spellchecker, and font style preferences.

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Editor's review of IncrediMail Xe

With its straightforward interface and whimsical attitude, IncrediMail appeals to the casual e-mailer, but actually offers enough features--like Exchange server support--to be functional for more serious endeavors. You can personalize your messages with background stationery from a variety of categories, including animals, art, technology, and moods. The program installs with about 50 backgrounds, most with a cartoony feel, and you can download more online or create your own with Letter Creator (a 10-use trial comes with this download). It supports recorded voice attachments, and the premium version supports skins.

There are a few drawbacks. The overall interface lacks pizazz and looks like it was last overhauled back when emoticons were new. There's a questionnaire that must be filled out when installing the program, annoying even at three questions long. More significantly, IncrediMail turns into quite the resource pig when playing around with graphics-heavy backgrounds.

The features are solid, though. The program offers basic e-mail client functions, including sending, receiving, and organizing messages; managing your address book; and creating rules for how to handle certain messages. Among its other included features are an integrated JunkFilter that lets you assign permission for senders or domains, IMAP support via a POP3 emulator, and Message Rules functions that work in concert with JunkFilter. IncrediMail makes standard e-mail a bit more fun for home users, especially for kids and kids at heart.

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  Generates it's own SPAM via IncrediMail products :(

  by: Nat.A.Ray on 31-Jul-2008 10:21:36 PM

  Pros: Fun - However . . . even with the paid Premium version, IncrediMail insist on Spamming its own customers with advertisements of products produced for, or by IncrediMail . . . A real pain in the @$$ :(

  Cons: Applications like IncrediMail, which ?call back home? every four hours to download IncrediMail?s own form of SPAM (advertisements) via a call to 206.82.140.163:80 can be stopped in their tracks with COMODO Firewall 3.0.
  
  Nathaniel A. Ray III, MCSE

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