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Email client: Mail Commander

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We offer 4 program options:

The table below details the differences between each version:

Features list
Free 
Mail 
Commander 
Mail 
Commander
Home
Mail 
Commander 
Pro
Mail 
Commander Deluxe
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Home Edition
Professional Edition
Deluxe Edition
Enterprise Edition
General options
Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista Compatible 
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fast and lean program - let's you process vast amounts of correspondence.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Send, resend, forward and receive mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SMTP authentification - check that recipients' e-mail addresses exist before sending out messages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Secure Socket Layer (ssl/tls) - program supports secure connections (can check gmail.com and other accounts)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-tasking: Compose, receive and send mail simultaneously. By checking and sending mail as a background operation, our program  lets you work in other applications while your email is transferring.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User-friendly interface with extensive message selection capabilities - delete, copy, or transfer messages by simply dragging the mouse over them.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol allows you to access email stored on a remote server. 
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Supports file attachments. Full support for the Internet MIME protocol.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Supports many smtp / pop3 accounts. Check several or all POP3 e-mail accounts at once.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Can store information on many e-mail accounts.  You can create various names from which you send and receive email with the Mail Profile settings. For example, you might use one personality (email address name) for friends and family and another personality for business correspondence.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Receive and read plain text and graphic html messages.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Send multi-part HTML messages with embedded images or combined text and HTML messages using built-in WYSIWYG HTML message editor.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Antispam message headers analyzer.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Message encoding. Selecting message charset. Sending and receiving emails in national coding/charsets (windows-1251, koi-8r, etc..), UTF-8 support. Decode and encode messages with various charsets.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Download only e-mail headers (Subject and From fields, etc) - plus options to re-download or delete selected messages from the server.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redownload selected messages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delete selected messages from server
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Skip messages over some message size
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Message Queueing & Scheduling
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Message sorting by date, subject, address or other fields. Sort your mail by date, size, sender, subject, colour or thread, in ascending or descending order 
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Automatic filtering of incoming messages based on preset criteria and their placement in individual mailboxes. 
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change message statuses, color, read/unread status, priority and other advanced options. Color Labeling: Assign colors to sort your mail either manually or automatically using filters.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image blocking. Possibility to disable remote images, scripts or other nasties. Just a good range of tables, images and the other formatting you need for real mail. It protects you from even the worst HTML-borne virus and trojans, and protects your privacy by intercepting web bugs.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Virus Protection: Program doesn't allow anything to run from your mail unless you want it to, stopping viruses and trojan horses cold.
Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Grouped views allow you poweful extended views of the mail in your folders, including presenting message threads.
No
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Language localization options
Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Portable Database
Portable application that do not require any kind of installation onto a computer and you can run program from removable storage device such as a USB flash drive.
Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Portable version. Set relative custom folders for attachments, addressbook, templates and email databases. 
Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Database synchronisation (or synchronization) and replication
No
No
No
Yes
Addressbook, templates, messages:  - very simple txt file format
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Addressbook
Large addressbook support
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
 Yes
Set-up multiple address books (as many as you want) with lots of additional fields. Supports unlimited number of address books 
stored in separate files
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Remove duplicates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Verify maillist email addresses
No
No
Yes
Yes
Additional CRM fields: Order information, price, product id, comments, etc.. The address book has over 60 fields you can use to collect and store information. 
No
No
Yes
Yes
Identify people who have their birthdays on a given date
No
No
Yes
Yes
Advanced address search in addressbook. (searching blocked emails, etc..)
No
No
Yes
Yes
Deletion list database of users whose letters should not be sent under any circumstances, even if they subscribe to your news. 
No
No
Yes
Yes
Easily import address books from CSV (MS Excel), DBF database, and text delimited (comma or tab separated) files.
No
No
Yes
Yes
Easily export address books to MS Excel, DBF database, and text delimited (comma or tab separated) files.
No
No
Yes
Yes
Templates
Message templates. Unlimited number of topics. Great for tech.support department.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Can use custom templates for new, reply, forward, confirmation messages. Message templates can be individual for any account.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Use templates for auto-reply
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Signatures
Custom signatures for different mail profiles. 
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced signature panel in message editor.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Message Editor
WYSIWYG html message editor. Powerful message editor with full formatting capabilities.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Send mail in HTML format: multi-part html messages with embedded images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search and view orders, requests, additional information about email address 
No
No
Yes
Yes
In-line spell checking: Software highlights the misspelled words in your message. You can review, override and add words to your dictionary. Spelling checker, with different dictionaries (UK English, US English, etc,) and user dictionary additions. 
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Automatic Name and email address completion: Program automatically completes the recipient name you are typing using information.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Contextual Filing advanced matching: Select a word (or words) within a message 
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Easily select and insert signature and templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface customization
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Attachment manipulations. Select, run, open, view, copy attachments.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
"Return Receipt" option. Supports confirmation of reading and confirmation of delivery requests 
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mailing List
Distribution lists allow easy management of large mailing databases. Support mailing lists for your clients and subscribers.
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Personalized messages & email merge. Create a personalized letter for each subscriber
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unlimited mailing list projects. Save, reuse old maillist projects.
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Advanced Mailing list filtering, deleting duplicates, word and character replacement, creating lists from different types of text files
No
 No
No
 Yes
Multi threading and Multiple Connections for bulk email sending via ISP. Multitasking maillist sending mode. (Sending many messages at once via different ISP)  To support simultaneous mail sending create several mail profiles.
No
 No
 No
 Yes
Maillist Scheduler
No
 No
No
 Yes
Split mailing list and per hour limit option. For example, if your ISP limits the maximum emails per hour or you do not want overload your server. Send mail in batches with a delay between each batch. Set number of retries.
No
 No
 No
 Yes
Manage returned mail, automatically stop sending to unavailable emails and delete addresses from maillist.
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Resume sending. Advanced log file. 
No
 No
 No
 Yes
Double Opt-In
Automatically process double opt-in subscribe requests
No
 No
Yes
 Yes
Add custom fileds (first name, company, etc) using subscription form
No
 No
No
 Yes
Opt-Out
Process unsubscribe requests
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Add records to blacklist (deletions) database
No
 No
 No
 Yes
Auto-Reply
Auto reply based on the criteria set by you
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Automatic forward email using the criteria set by you
No
No
Yes
Yes
Notification Lists
Send invitations, auto-reminders & notifications, process surveys. Reminder emails can be sent manually, automatically skipping over any users who have already completed the order or survey. 
No
No
No
Yes
Event notification advanced scheduler. Automatically notify customers about new products, releases, special offers, etc..  Track a number of critical dates for each event and contact. Very powerful CRM tool in any marketing and communications arsenal. 
No
No
No
Yes
Event Tracker provides a marketing tool to track important business contacts and to send notifications. For example, send special offer or sales letter x-days after a person completes the contact form.  An event may be an email, subscribe request or completed software download from your website.  All contact events can be associated with date field in addressbook. 
No
No
No
Yes
Use advanced addressbook query (by dates, product id, subjects, etc..)  There have been a lot of marketing studies about the best times to send emails depending on your audience. Well, with our new email notification/invite tool you can pre-schedule an invitation to be sent — and also define a series of auto-reminders to be sent out x-days after a person completes the subscribe/contact form or receives the first invite. 
No
No
No
Yes
Track invitations & surveys. Email invitations looks just like your other email communications. The program treats each person as an individual subscriber — so they’ll get auto-reminders x-days out from the time they first got their personal invitation. Also, the program will automatically stops sending reminders after the person completes unsubscribe form or survey
No
No
No
Yes
DB Maker
DB Maker Technology. Create databases utilizing email messages or other files
No
No
No
Yes
Automatically process email containing the data of potential clients. DB Maker helps you create a database that contains all the necessary data about your partners and customers. Most of you won’t have problems involving the time-consuming transfer of necessary information from messages
No
 No
No
 Yes
Wizards
Mailing List Creating Wizard
No
No
No
Yes
Opt-In Wizard -  Easily create subscribe rule
No
No
No
Yes
Opt-Out Wizard  -  Easily create unsubscribe rule
No
No
No
Yes
Powerful filters
Message filtering based on key words. Extensive filtering and processing capabilities for incoming mail and requests.  Unlimited number of filter rules
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Set up auto-replies to incoming mail using pre-set templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Set up the program to automatically process newsletter subscriptions and requests to be removed from your mailing lists. Advanced filtering and processing capabilities (Add to addressbook, Delete from addressbook)
No
No
Yes
Yes
Filter attachments by file extension
No
No
Yes
Yes
Transfer filtered attachment to a selected folder. As an example, you can automatically transfer some documents and files to be processed by other programs
No
No
No
Yes
Message searches based on key words. Fast, Powerful Search: Search through thousands of messages in seconds, using multiple search criteria
No
 Yes
Yes
 Yes
Blacklist emails by message content
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Additional anti-spam filtering functions.. Junk filtering local and server side. 
Delete messages on the server before they are downloaded to your local computer (a big time saver).
No
 No
 Yes
 Yes
Import & Service
Import messages from Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, The Bat!, FastTrackMail, Mail Commander
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Compact Mailboxes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mailbox Recovery
No
 No
Yes
 Yes
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    Email client features are the functions a mail application provides to read, compose, search, organize and send messages.

    In the context of email management and customer communication, the term “Email Client Features and Mailbox Configuration” describes a concrete task or capability rather than just a product name. Understanding the terminology helps an administrator choose the right connection settings, distinguish closely related operations, and diagnose failures without relying on guesswork.

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    Practical workflow for Email Client Features and Mailbox Configuration: start by identifying the source system and the intended result. Configure only the required permissions, perform the action on a small test item, and inspect both the output and any status or error messages. Then repeat the process with real data and document the settings so it can be reproduced. For example, an office user configures IMAP for mailbox synchronization, SMTP for sending, filters for invoices and folders for archived projects.

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