Comparison of email clients

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of email client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information.

Contents

1 General 2 Operating system support 3 Features 4 See also 5 External links

General

Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc.

	Creator	First public release date	Latest stable version	Cost (USD)	Software license
Apple Mail	Apple Computer	?	1.3.9	Part of Mac OS X	Proprietary
Mozilla	Mozilla Foundation	December 7 1998	1.7.6	Free	MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Mozilla Thunderbird	Mozilla Foundation	July 28 2003	1.0.2	Free	MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Eudora	Qualcomm	1988	6.3.2	Free (Light), Free (Pro, with ads), $49 (Pro)	Proprietary
Opera M2	Opera Software	September 1996	8.0	Free (with ads), $39 (without ads)	Proprietary
Outlook Express	Microsoft	?	6.0.0	Part of Windows	Proprietary
Sylpheed	Hiroyuki Yamamoto	January 2000	1.0.1	Free	GPL
The Bat!	RitLabs	?	3	$45	Proprietary
	Creator	First public release date	Latest stable version	Cost (USD)	Software license

Operating system support

The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).

	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix
Apple Mail	No	Yes	No	No	No
Mozilla	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mozilla Thunderbird	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Eudora	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Opera M2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook Express	Yes	No	No	No	No
Sylpheed	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Bat!	Yes	No	No	No	No
	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix

Features

Information on what features each of the clients support.

	HTML email	Newsgroup	Image blocking	Junk filtering	Thread view
Apple Mail	Read Only	No	Yes	Yes	Limited
Mozilla	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mozilla Thunderbird	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Eudora	Yes	No	Yes	Yes (Pro only)	Yes
Opera M2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook Express	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Sylpheed	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Bat!	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	HTML email	Newsgroup	Image blocking	Junk filtering	Thread view

See also

• List of email clients
• Comparison of layout engines

External links

• Michigan Engineering - Email Client Comparison
• UAlbany ITS: Email Services - Email Choices: Mail Client Comparison Summary Tables
• Email client comparison
• Email Client Comparison
• T&B : Email : Clients