While never reaching the popularity of the now defunct Eudora email program, Corel's Mail application has had its fans during its short life. If you are interested in testing out a simple and different email application, try to get your hands on one of the last copies of WordPerfect Mail through eBay or Amazon third-party sellers.

( What is freeware ?) Buying a piece of email history Side note: Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, ' open-source' email program you can download from - in other words, you do not need to purchase a product from Corel to get your own copy of it. Instead of pursuing the tough 'shareware' email client market, which includes several worthy competitors offered absolutely free (like Apple Mail bundled in Mac OS X, Outlook Express or Windows Mail bundled with Windows, and freely downloadable applications like Mozilla Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail), Corel has instead started 'offering' Thunderbird bundled with its productivity suite - from the official product description: The updated version ( 2.0.4) is the final release of this email client. Unfortunately, after releasing the first version of WordPerfect Mail, Corel has left this nice, alternative email program without any updates for a long time, stuck at version 1. WordPerfect Mail Fact Sheet Made ByĬ/Mail Focus on the productivity suite, and the demise of WordPerfect Mail

WordPerfect Mail would actually be an excellent choice as someone's first email client. WordPerfect Mail has a beautifully designed interface -very different from that of other programs of the WordPerfect Suite, and is surprisingly user-friendly. From using it, one can't help but notice that WordPerfect Mail was designed with the user in mind. In addition to standard email capabilities, it includes a very decent calendar, and an RSS reader. Since the first version, WordPerfect Mail is a noteworthy contender to other email clients. WordPerfect Mail is a relatively recent addition to Corel Corporation's line of office productivity suite, (which notably includes the Quattro Pro spreadsheet application and the WordPerfect word processor.)

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