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CheckMail is a solid and useful mail checker with message filters and an interesting server mode that lets you manage mail up- and download centrally for a small office or home. Unfortunately, CheckMail supports POP accounts only, lacks those nifty pop-up notifications and doesn't offer an IMAP server.

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Pros

• CheckMail offers useful filtering
• Lets you preview, delete and send mail quickly

• CheckMail can operate as a central POP and SMTP proxy

Cons

• CheckMail supports POP accounts only
• No pop-up notification of new mail, and the filters could be more flexible
• CheckMail doesn't work as an IMAP server

Description

• CheckMail checks multiple POP email accounts for new mail periodically.
• The checking interval can be adjusted per account in CheckMail.
• CheckMail includes filters for notifications for certain mail, or to show only unread messages.
• Mail can also be filtered to custom folders automatically by CheckMail.
• Lets you preview (in plain text or HTML) and delete mail right at the server as well as send new messages and replies.
• New mail can be announced via sound and message (including sender, subject, etc.), or by launching a custom program.
• CheckMail can operate in a server mode, managing incoming and outgoing mail for a small network.
• When CheckMail downloads mail from remote servers queued outgoing mail is sent in a bunch.
• Mail fetched by CheckMail can be retrieved from it with any email client using POP.

• CheckMail supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.

Guide Review - CheckMail 5.4 - Windows Mail Checker

CheckMail is a program to check mail, and to check for mail. Its whole layout is flexible and (dare I say it?) scalable.

CheckMail supports multiple accounts — unfortunately only of the POP type — and multiple checking frequencies as well as not too flexible, but still useful message filters. These filters can cause CheckMail to announce certain messages in a certain way, but they can also filter mail to custom folders automatically.

Of course, CheckMail lets you preview and delete mail quickly in all these folders. You can compose new messages or replies, too.

All these sensible features make CheckMail a great mail checker. There's chiefly just one shortcoming: CheckMail doesn't offer really useful pop-up windows to announce mail (like those in Windows/MSN Messenger, for example).

CheckMail does come with another interesting gimmick. You can run it in server mode and use it as a gateway for both incoming and outgoing mail. CheckMail will exchange all messages in a bunch. Mail sent from your email client when you are not online are kept in CheckMail until the next exchange, and incoming messages, retrieved by CheckMail periodically, can be retrieve from CheckMail via POP.

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