PocoMail
PocoMail is an e -mail program for Microsoft Windows. It supports POP3 and IMAP basic functionality as well as newsgroups and RSS feeds. PocoMail offers multi-user capabilities and positioning itself as a safe alternative to Microsoft Outlook. When sending mail SSL and TLS are offered. PocoMail offers a multilingual user interface, is fully Unicode -compatible and allows the Im-/Export messages. Its strength lies in its ease of use and adaptability to individual needs.
The e -mail program is distributed as shareware on the Internet. Currently (April 2009) is the English version 4.8. The previous version 3.4 is available in six additional languages (Danish, German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish). However, the translations of the 4-seater version delayed continuously, with release of version 4.5 is on the manufacturing side, the reference to "soon" published translations have been removed.
Features
PocoMail includes its own scripting language to automate e-mail tasks and various filter options and a SPAM detection ( inter alia with Bayesian filter). In the current version tabbed Mailboxes and newsreader functionality have been added.
PocoMail used to display HTML mail, not Internet Explorer and does not support Java, VB or J-Script. It is immune to viruses so far as it does not automatically open any attachments or running scripts.
The program allows the safe display of HTML mail, that is, users can choose whether stored on the Internet images are to be downloaded (this is checked by spammers partially, if an email address is still active). All links are provided with an additional, so you do not accidentally clicks on a website a spammer.
PocoMail offers the possibility, even online to view the mail on the server ( and delete ) instead of downloading them in any case.
The improved in version 4 search functions ("Quick Search" and "Focus Box") are constructed intuitively and deliver results in seconds.
Versions
PocoMail is written in Borland Delphi and is offered in two different versions:
- PocoMail ( " Normal Mail" ) for stationary computers
- PocoMail PE ( " e- mail on the go " ): abgespecktes PocoMail that runs on USB sticks
The manufacturer also produces still a PIM called Barca, which additionally includes an appointment calendar next to the PocoMail functionalities.
History
PocoMail is developed in Canada since 1998 by Slaven Radic. In 2003, he and two partners founded the company Poco Systems Inc., which also brought to the market a year later, an act building on PocoMail Organizer with calendar function called Barca.
PocoMail has received especially in the last five years in the U.S. and Canada, some media presence. It won the 2000 as a relatively young software already the prize as " PC Magazine Shareware of the Year" and was praised by CBSnews.com as e- mail alternative to Outlook in February 2005.
2008 there was a change of ownership Pocosystems Inc., yet remained of the founders, Slaven Radic, in the company. The software producer Rose City Software declared the published in April 2009 version of PocoMail 4.8 the official successor to his e- mail product Courier ( formerly Calypso ). The specific properties of Courier had previously been integrated into PocoMail.