| Mailer application: | WM2003SE Messaging | WM5 Messaging | Qmail | WebIS Mail / FlexMail | nPOP / nPOPw | Pocket SpamFilter 1.4 | ProfiMail |
| Price | n/a | n/a | free | $19.95 | Free | $24.95 | $23.99 + VAT for Europeans |
| Everything on a storage card? | The application is in ROM and the mail bodies in the main storage (\Windows\Messaging); only attachments can be relocated to cards. | See WM2003SE | + | + | + | n/t | + |
| Operating system / screen orientation/VGA mode compliance: PPC2k | n/a | n/a | + | - | + | - | - |
| PPC2k2 | n/a | n/a | + (screenshot) | + 2.1 (screenshot) /- 2.2b (screenshot) | + | + | + |
| WM2003 | n/a | n/a | + | + | + | + | + |
| WM2003SE | n/a | n/a | + | + | + / - | + | + |
| WM5 | n/a | n/a | + | + | + | + | +; icons are pretty ugly at the bottom left bar (screenshot) (same in QVGA (screenshot)) unlike under previous OS'es. WM5 hardware shortcut keys do not work (tested on HTC Wizard)! |
| WM5 PPC PE | n/a | n/a | + | + | + | + | + |
| VGA compliance | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
| In native VGA | + | + | + (screenshot) | + | + in list/message read/compose screen (screenshot) ; - (quarter) in message settings screens (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) |
| Landscape compliance | + | + | +, except for setting screens (screenshot) | + | + scrollbars are provided when needed (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + |
| Left-hand Landscape (native HTC Wizard/Universal mode) compliance | + | + | +, except for setting screens | + (screenshot) | + | + | + (screenshot) |
| Usability: Freely settable font sizes (making use of high-resolution VGA screens in standard SE mode?) | + (makes use of the global font size setting at System/Screen/Text Size; only one, global setting) | + as before (screenshot) | + really advanced - almost everything separately configurable! For example, if you use 4 or 5 as the header list font sizes, the results will be spectacular on a VGA device in standard SE VGA mode (screenshot) | + (5-14) (screenshot) | - not in the GUI; you need to manually edit the LvFontSize property in nPOP.ini. Then, you can set any font size. | - (they can't be changed at all) | + (three sizes: small/normal/big) (screenshot) |
| Mail header autocompletion, independent of that of Windows Mobile? | + | + (also a WM6 screenshot showing it's not any more strictly connected with the SIP. With pre-WM6 OS'es, address auto-completion only worked with on-screen input methods - not with for example external keyboards. This is fixed in WM6.)) | +, really great (screenshot) | - | - | n/a (no outgoing mail support) | - |
| Links clickable in non-HTML mails? | + | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | - (screenshot) | - | - (screenshot) |
| Select text and copy support? | + | + | + | + | + | + | - in Inbox; you must for example click "reply" to a mail to be able to copy any text |
| Easy accessibility from Today screen while minimized? | + | + (own Today plug-in) (screenshot) | - | + (icon on the bottom bar; it maximizes WebIS Mail, unlike that of nPop(w)) | + (screenshot) | - | - |
| Select all mail? | + (Ctrl-A works OK) | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + both Ctrl-A and Mail/Edit/Select all) (screenshot) | + (both Ctrl-A and the menu (screenshot)) | + (screenshot) |
| Select more than one mail? | + (both with stylus and Shift/Ctrl + click) | + | + (Shift + Ctrl on SIP keyboard only) | + (both with stylus and Shift/Ctrl + click) | + (both with stylus and Shift/Ctrl + click) | - (not even with the built-in SIP) | - (!) |
| Search? | - | - | + ( 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) ; the results are all put in the "Search" folder (screenshot) ) | - | - | - | - |
| Tree/thread view? | - | - | + (screenshot) | - (screenshot) - note that MailMessagesTreeMode in Data\Settings.ini has nothing to do with the traditional tree/thread mode, it just does the same as View/Single and Multi Columns (screenshot) | + (screenshot) (not as spectacular as that of Qmail, though) | - | - |
| Smooth, custom fonts like those of uBook? | - | - | - | - | - | - | Can't be switched off - really annoying |
| Generic speed | Quick, responsive | Quick, responsive | Quick, responsive | Very slow to start, especially on WM5 devices; otherwise, OK | Quick, responsive | Pretty slow to fetch headers on WM5; on pre-WM5 devices, it's OK | Quick at downloading headers; annoyingly slow (much slower than the alternatives) at downloading mail bodies |
| Sorting/Hiding/Displaying mail: Filters / rules? | - | - | + by far the best | - | + (screenshot); generic overview of the config screen (screenshot); available actions (screenshot) on these pre-defined (screenshot) or arbitrary (screenshot) headers. An example of the content (screenshot) | Sophisticated spam filtering; predefined spamhost lists. | + pretty good - any number of rules in OR relation (screenshot); at a higher level, there can be any number of these rules and they can be individually dis/enabled (screenshot) (see Tools/Rules) |
| Sort by? | From/Date/Subject (screenshot) | Message Type/From/Date/Subject (screenshot) | + (you can click any column header) | A lot (screenshot) | + Date/Subject/From/Size, using the standard list headers | From/Date/Subject/ Status/Size (screenshot) | Date/Subject/Sender, asc/desc (screenshot) |
| Hardware button support: D-pad based in-message scrolling? | Up/down : page | Up/down : page | Up/down: row; left/right: page | Up/down: jump link by default on WM5; page (pre-WM5). The registry hack described here works great at modifying the default WM5 behaviour. | Up/down: row; left/right: page | By row - very weak! The mail is displayed in an editable text area and the cursor is moved | Up/down: row |
| Easy switching between mail messages with D-pad/buttons? | + in message view, D-pad left-right switches to next/previous message | + in message view, D-pad left-right switches to next/previous message | + Action button; it only takes you forward. The app also has the capability of explicitly enabling scroll down-based message switching too (screenshot), but it doesn't seem to work. | left/right: previous/next mail | Right on page end takes you to the next message; Action takes you back to the header list | - (only with stylus) | - (no prev/next mail button support at all) |
| WM5 SW buttons? | n/a | + | - | - (WebIS) / + (FlexMail b2) (screenshot) | - | - | - (albeit it has SW-like buttons!) |
| Ability to redefine/reassign buttons? | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Multiple account support: Easy switching between accounts? | + in header list view, D-pad left-right switches to next account | + (same as with previous version) | + just one click in the header view at the top | n/a (stores everything in one folder, independent of mailboxes) | + | + (screenshot) | + |
| (Temporarily and easily) disable the synchronization/ access of a given account? | - (there's no round reception; therefore, this is not an issue) | - (there's no round reception; therefore, this is not an issue) | + (if you edit the round reception rules) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) |
| Can move messages over predefined accounts, not only folders of the same account? | -; only between folders in the same account | - see WM2003SE version and this (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) ; note that as all POP3/IMAP accounts are, by default, collected in the same "Local folders" account, you'll won't really need inter-account copies unless you want to copy SMS messages/ActiveSync-synced mails. | -; you can only copy the mail to Savebox (screenshot) | - | - |
| Full clear of all folders in an account/all accounts? | - | + (screenshot) (all folders) | - (possible in the file system - the easiest way if you have many accounts) | you can quickly cleanup a folder (screenshot) | - | - | - |
| Mail protocol support (in addition to POP3): IMAP support? | + | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | - | - | + (screenshot) |
| Other protocols? | - | - | NNTP, RSS | SMS (screenshot) ; it's able to read/write/ handle SMS messages (PPC PE) system databases. It, as of the current beta, doesn't seem to be able to send messages. | - | - | - |
| Interoperability with Messaging, ActiveSync and the Windows Mobile databases: does it use the same WinCE databases and file system files as Messaging? | n/a | n/a | -; its file system-based DB's are very good, though; much better than those of Messaging in every respect | Only with Outlook-synced mail | - | - | - |
| If it doesn't use WinCE DB's / \Windows\Messaging, what does it use? | n/a | n/a | + file-based; they can be anywhere. SMTP/POP3 mail are in mailbox format (one big file for everything); NNTP/RSS messages/news are in one-file-for-each-message format. | File-based; .fld files in \Data. | It stores its files in the home directory of the application inside MailBox0.dat/ SaveBox.dat/ SendBox.dat files. Filepath may be modified inside nPOP.ini (see property DataFileDir). | Its own files under \My Documents; separate file for each mail message. That is, it's very slow to exit on WM5 devices | + file-based; fetched/sent mail bodies (not headers) are in the mail subdirectory of the home and are one-file-per message in the format of randomstring.plain, randomstring.draft or randomstring.html. Mail headers (only the most improtant ones - not all of them!) are contained by Data\messages.bin. |
| Able to import predefined Messaging mailer accounts? | n/a | n/a | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access to built-in Contacts database? | + | + | + (screenshot); must be explicitly enabled in Tools / Options / Address Book; make sure you enable "Pocket Outlook" as can be seen in this screenshot. | + in pre-WM5 OS'es (screenshot) ; - in WM5 in current beta (screenshot). FlexMail b2, on the other hand, can access them (screenshot) | - (nPop) / + (nPOPw). In the latter, you need to enable it manually (screenshot)). Please note that it may take some nPopw restarts for the address book, Address.lst in the file system, to be populated. WM5-compliant too. | + | + (even under WM5!), can be used from both the main menu (screenshot) and from any addressee fields (double-tap) (screenshot) |
| Able to read ActiveSync-synced Outlook mail? | n/a | n/a | - | + with pre-WM5 devices (screenshot) ; - with WM5 devices (as of 2.2beta b 363). FlexMail beta 2 is able to access the latter (screenshot) | - | - | - |
| Explicit Mail Export; if not supported, is the native mail storage format easy to read / does it contain every header/attachment? | -; POP3/IMAP mails contain all the headers; outgoing messages don't (only the body). Attachments are stored elsewhere in the file system, not as part of multipart messages. | See WM2003SE | + | -; it does contain both the headers and the bodies; the internal format is much less cleaner than that of most of the alternatives | -; it does; MailBox*.dat | -; see above | -; not very - headers are always stored separately |
| Uses mailto: ? | + @="tmail.exe %1" | + | -; direct reghack (screenshot) doesn't work (it only brinbgs up the main screen of Qmail) | + (screenshot) ; passed (screenshot) @="\"\\Program Files\\WebIS\\Mail\\wismail.exe\" %1" | -; direct reghack (screenshot) works (screenshot) | n/a (no outgoing mail) | -; direct reghack doesn't work (screenshot) |
| HTML support: One-part mail messages with text/html type (source-level example (screenshot) ) | - | - | + | + | + File/External viewer works just great: 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) 3 (screenshot) | no HTML support at all: | + |
| Multipart mails, the first part being text/plain and the second a text/html one (source-level example (screenshot)) | - | - (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | +, excellent (screenshot) | - by default (screenshot) . choose File/External viewer from inside the message body viewer (screenshot). This, however, will not work with multipart/alternative messages (for example, those of PPCT (screenshot) or ones created by both Outlook and Outlook Express - these both use multipart messages and can't be configured to send only one part), only with one-part text/html ones. Therefore, you'll need to save the text/html attachments and invoke the browser on them from the file system by hand. Note that you, as opposed to what people generally say, don't need to explicitly configure nPOPw to invoke PIE/IEM. If you do want to do that, however, this is what you need to do: open nPOP.ini and look for the ViewApp property (screenshot) . Enter \Windows\iexplore.exe in there (screenshot). | Doesn't even make an attempt at decoding mail bodies; it just prints what it gets as can be seen here (screenshot), here (screenshot)and here (screenshot) | +; it isn't the best though as it uses its own HTML renderer without, for example, table support - example 1 (screenshot) example 2 (screenshot) example 3 (screenshot) example 4. The latter too is correctly rendered by the alternative, HTML-capable mailers. Note that you will want to check out all HTML mails in full screen mode so that they are sufficiently rendered - in the preview mode, their rendering is really bad, as can be seen here (screenshot) - as opposed to this (screenshot) |
| Native Outlook HTML (winmail.dat) support? (source-level example (screenshot) ) | n/a | n/a | - (screenshot) (shows but doesn't parse) | - (screenshot) (hides it) | - | - | - (screenshot) (hides it) |
| Display inline (external) images referenced from HTML files? | n/a | n/a | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) ; enabling it can be done here (screenshot) | + (from external viewer) | - (absolutely no attachment support) | + |
| Fetching mail: Does it only display mail that is still on the server? | + | + | -; this checkbox (screenshot) seems to be unrelated to this | - | +; what is more, it rereads all the remaining headers if their position is shifted down because of the deletion | n/t | + |
| Does it download all the pre-defined mailboxes at once (round reception)? | - | - | +; you can even edit the round reception rules (screenshot 1 (screenshot); 2 (screenshot) ) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + | + |
| Settable amount of downloading? | + | + (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + 1 (screenshot)2 (screenshot) | +; in the basic account setup screen, two steps only: headers or the entire message (screenshot) ; you must go to the Advanced settings at the bottom of the list to set the body size (screenshot) |
| Fetching mail in the background? | + | + | + (Hide button) | + Hide button in the bottom left corner (screenshot) | + | - (screenshot) | - (screenshot) |
| Scheduled/periodical fetch (if supported): Do you need to explicitly start the application to do it? (Tested on a HTC Wizard) | n/t | - (note that not even \Windows\Startup\poutlook.lnk needs to exist) | n/a (no autofetch support) | + , also fetches mail when minimized (but not suspended) (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) |
| Can it wake up the PPC (that is, does it integrate into the WinCE system well enough?)? | n/t | + (works great on a suspended PPC PE device!) | n/a | - WebIS Mail doesn't work at all on WM5, not even in non-suspended mode (and doesn't work in suspended mode at all). Note that you must explicitly allow it (screenshot) to build-up connections if the device is not connected! Otherwise, it won't auto-connect. (This is no longer the case in FlexMail, where the default is connecting (screenshot)) WebIS Mail only works on non-suspended pre-WM5 devices as can be seen here: screenshot 1 (screenshot) and 2 (screenshot) . FlexMail's scheduling, on the other hand, does work on WM5 (screenshot 1 (screenshot) and 2 (screenshot)). Unfortunately, not even FlexMail is able to wake up suspended PPC PE devices - unlike Messaging. | - | n/t | - |
| Does it automatically connect? Does it disconnect / can you configure it to disconnect after the session? | n/t | +/ - / - | n/a | + (auto-connects if not connected) / - / - | + / - / + (screenshot) | n/t | + / - / - |
| Does it notice you of new, arrived mail? | n/t | + (sound / vibration) | n/a | + with FlexMail, both a sound is played and the vibrating alarm used; by default, both before (screenshot) and after (screenshot) checking the mail. Note that these notifications have nothing to do with the "Notify when a new mail is received" checkbox (screenshot). It's best not to touch the latter because then, if there're several new mails, you'll be notified of each of them (screenshot) , which can be really annoying. In this screenshot (screenshot) , you can see (check out the icons at the top!) that I've indeed received a lot of these notifications. | + (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Deleting mail: Auto-delete mail off the server? | - | - | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | - | n/t | - |
| Manual delete mail off the server? | + | + | + | + (screenshot) | + | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Reading mail: Does it send receipt when requested? | - | - | - | + even offers the user the dialog to send it (screenshot) ; the receipt is delivered OK (screenshot) | - | n/t | n/t |
| Editing mail: Settable priority? | -(Tools menu (screenshot); Edit menu (screenshot)) | + (screenshot) | - (!) (you can, however, manually add the needed ' X-Priority: 1' header in Header Edit mode) (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | - nPOP / + nPOPw (screenshot) | n/a (no SMTP) | + (screenshot) |
| Request receipt? | - | - | - (!) (you can, however, manually add the needed ' Disposition-Notification-To: "your name" <your address>' header in Header Edit mode) (screenshot) | Read/Delivery (screenshot) | - nPOP / + nPOPw (delivery and read) (screenshot) | n/a | - |
| Attach files? | + | + | + | + | + uses the built-in file dialog (\My Documents only + the entire storage card(s)) in the OS (screenshot) | n/a | + uses its own file dialog; able to access any directory (screenshot) |
| Reply body include/indentation? | + (screenshot) | + slightly less-capable than in WM2003SE (screenshot) | + settable (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | +, even offers the possibility of redefining the intro string (screenshot) | n/a | + (screenshot) ; not configurable |
| Forward style setting? | - | - | + message/rfc822 may be enabled (screenshot) | - | - | n/a | - |
| Signature | + 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) (one signature for each account with limited configuration capabilities) | + | + ; you can define several signatures for each account: 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot). At message writing time, you can easily choose from them (screenshot) | + one signature for each account; ability to import (screenshot) | +; one for each account (screenshot) | n/a | + any number of signatures; screenshot 1 (screenshot); screenshot 2 (screenshot); actual inclusion (screenshot) |
| Auto-send copy to self/to a given address? | - | - | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | n/a | + (screenshot) |
| Reply-to address? | - | - | -; but you can enter the "Reply-To:" header into your outgoing message in header edit mode (screenshot) (you don't need the < and > marks!) | + you can supply it for the entire accont (screenshot) | + for individual e-mails (screenshot) (see the "Other" button on the first message composition screen (screenshot) ) | n/a | - |
| Folders: sent messages? Everything stored? | + | + (screenshot) | + | + | + | n/a | + |
| I18n: Supported character sets? | n/t | All European | Western / UTF-8 / Japanese | + Everything (screenshot) | Western alphabet only; no way to send Unicode messages | n/t | All European |
| Outgoing mail: Encoding style (Base64/Quoted printable) manual set? | n/t | - | - | + (screenshot) . By default, char encoding with non-ASCII characters is UTF-8 (screenshot) . With body encoding set to base64 (and headers to 8-bit), (screenshot), the mail becomes this. | - | n/t | Can't be changed; quoted-printable if necessary |
| Manual enabling of 8-bit mail headers? | n/t | - | - | + (screenshot) . By default, headers are 7-bit (see above screenshot) | - | n/t | Automatically converts everything to quoted-printable |
| What happens if you write a mail in a charset not supported by the currently set charset? | n/t | Messaging sends out the Unicode chars accent-stripped (screenshot) | sends out the Unicode chars accent-stripped | It warns you of this and lets you choose another one (screenshot) | sends out the Unicode chars accent-stripped | n/t | n/t |
| Incoming mail: Compatible with base64- Content-Transfer-Encoded incoming mail? The mail used to test this can be seen here (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Manual, in-mail uuencode support? | - | - (screenshot) | - (screenshot) (it, however, offers a 'winmail.dat' download with mails that contain uuencoded messages; these mails contain bad contents). In NNTP mode, no uuencode support either. | - (screenshot) | - | n/t | n/t |
| 8-bit headers? Example (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | - (screenshot) | - (screenshot) (it just neglects them - even worse in this respect than Qmail) | + (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| quoted-printable 8859-1 headers? Example (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| quoted-printable UTF-8 headers? Example (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (note that FlexMail asks for explicit UTF-8 conversion for every incoming UTF-8 mail; the dialog reads 'sending', but it's 'receiving' that is taking place) (screenshot) | - (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Base 64 UTF-8 headers? Example (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | Partly (can't render UTF-8 chars) (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Base64 UTF-8 parts? Example (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | Partly (can't render UTF-8 chars) (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| quoted-printable 8859-1 parts? (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) ; also detaches & decodes such parts OK | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Base64 8859-1 parts? (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) ; also detaches & decodes such parts OK | n/t | + (screenshot) |
| Unicode send/receive test. Note that I've used this input text (screenshot) for the tests. The two bold/underlined letters are part of the Central-European character set (with hexa codes 0151 and 0171); the rest are 8-bit and part of the Western alphabet, 8859-1. This is why it's mostly the two Central-European chars that had problems. | n/t | + (screenshot) you must manually set it to UTF-8 mode during writing of the mail (Menu/Message Options/Language) (screenshot) ; otherwise, it will not send Unicode characters as can be seen in this screenshot (screenshot). Unfortunately, this setting is not sticky! | + (screenshot) ; you'll need to explicitly switch to UTF-8 (screenshot) . This is not sticky; therefore, if you want to make it sticky, you'll need to change the default encoding to UTF-8 in the system-level, generic settings: before (screenshot) after (screenshot) . It, however, doesn't work with the current build - in later builds maybe... | + | Impossible (screenshot). Note that if you exit new message editing by clicking OK, you must manually flag all outgoing messages to be really sent (screenshot) unless you explicitly enable the "Automatically mark for send" checkbox (screenshot) . Therefore, it's best to choose File/Send Now instead from the mail composition screen. | n/a (no outgoing mail) | Passed (screenshot) |
| Generic internationalization remarks | - | compatible with everything | compatible with everything, except for 8-bit headers | compatible with everything, except for 8-bit headers | Unable to read UTF-8 mails (and headers) without messing up the encoded characters (screenshot). Not recommended if you often receive UTF-8 mails. | As it's very bad with multipart messages and can't decode Q-P-encoded ones (as can be seen here: (screenshot)), I seriously doubt it can process accented characters/mail bodies encoded with Q-P or, what is even wose, Base64 | compatible with everything |
| Networking & security: non-default server ports, thus, allowing for Toonel? | + | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (POP3 (screenshot), SMTP (screenshot)) | + (POP3 (screenshot) / SMTP (screenshot)) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) |
| Detailed error messages | - | - | + (screenshot) | + 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) | not very detailed (screenshot) | n/t | Not very - for example, this is (screenshot) what I got when I used an unsuitable Connections Framework connection and haven't redefined it in Tools/Configuration/Access Point. That is, no helpful error messages |
| Use SOCKS server? | + (system-level) | + | - | + (screenshot) | - | - | - |
| SMTP auth: Separate login/pwd settings for SMTP server? | - (screenshot) | + (screenshot) (the invokable dialog here (screenshot)) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) ; dialog (screenshot) | No SMTP at all | + (screenshot) |
| SMTP authorization: explicit incoming mail check before sending? | - | - | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | n/a | - |
| POP3: explicit APOP? | - | - | + (screenshot) | n/t | + (screenshot) | - | n/t |
| Support for SSL? | + | + (screenshot) | + | + (screenshot) ; security settings group in POP3 dialog (screenshot); the same for SMTP (screenshot) | - | - (in addition to the lack of SSL, it - unlike even nPOPw - can't even accept certificates. Therefore, it can't access a lot of non-SSL sites at all - for example, my mailbox at winmobiletech.com) | + (screenshot) |
| Gmail compliance? With example screens of setting it up. | n/t | 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) 3 (screenshot) 4 (screenshot). Works great | Get the openSSL library from the homepage and copy the two DLL's, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll, to the home directory of Qmail. Then, (re)start Qmail. Setup steps: 1 (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) 3 (screenshot) 4 (screenshot). After this, everything works OK (screenshot) | + (screenshot) . 1 (screenshot) . It notices its being a gmail account and offers the user the possibility of using the default, working settings (screenshot) - just click Yes. Everything you'll need to do after this is clicking Next's (and, finally, Finish) and enter the POP3 password (screenshot). | - (no SSL support) | No SSL | 1 (screenshot) 2 (in Advanced Settings) (screenshot). Works OK (screenshot) |
| Advanced, protocol-level user-centric features: Client-server communication logging? | - | - | + (screenshot) ; log files are stored inside individual account directories with the timestamp and a UID in their name like nntp-20060221153848000-3008956414.log . Is able to log all the supported protocols (POP3/SMTP (screenshot) /NNTP (screenshot) /RSS (screenshot)). | + (screenshot); the log file is at \Data\WebISMail.log and contains everything but the mail bodies | - | - | - |
| In-application examining of mail headers? | - | - | +; see Raw Mode (screenshot) and/or Source Mode (screenshot) ; even allows for direct outgoing header editing (screenshot) | + (screenshot) | + (File/Options /Recv/Include header lines must be enabled for this (screenshot) ; all subsequent (re)downloads will also display the headers (screenshot)) | - | - (screenshot) |
| Version check/update? | n/a | n/a | - | - | - | - | + (screenshot) |
| Built-in data counter? | - | - | - | - | - | - | + (screenshot) 2 (screenshot) |
Legend:
+: working/existing/passed
-: not working/not existing/failed
n/t: not tested
n/a: not applicable