TOP 10 Windows Apps for E-mail

How much time do you spend checking your emails every day? Yep, how long time. Is there any chance to be more productive with our email? Of course! In this article, we are going to tell you the best Windows app for emails that can bring all your accounts under one app roof, deploy a range of productivity tools, and integrate your other favorite apps, free and paid. Now, let's check out together!

eM Client

eM Client offers free licenses available for two accounts. If updated, $49.95 is charged on time, including VIP support, unlimited accounts, and commercial use. eM Client integrates email, calendars, tasks, contacts, notes, and chat in a single desktop application. You can easily synchronize with Gmail, MS Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, or any other service provider and always have your data available.

This email app for Windows' intuitive, modern UI makes it a pleasure to use, but it may not be everyone's liking. However, its clean yet efficient user interface will improve your productivity. It is also quite easy to use this app. eM Client will set up everything automatically for most email services, and quickly import your data from all major email clients. The innovative sidebar provides handy information including an agenda of upcoming events or a communication history and files history with a contact. Integrated search will always help you find what you're looking for, even within the attached files' content. Your data will stay safe thanks to advanced message encryption and optional data backup.

eM Client is also highly customizable. You can adjust its behavior to fit your routine and enhance your workspace with beautiful themes - or even build your own theme.

eM Client manages multiple e-mail accounts well, but its free version is limited by how many accounts it can support. It makes up for it with abundant style, a relatively easy setup, and great features, though.

This program behaves like a typical e-mail manager, akin to Outlook or Thunderbird. In addition to letting you manage multiple e-mail accounts, eM Client will organize your calendar, meetings, contacts, and more for you so you don't have to think about it. You can get right to work with this client by inserting your e-mail and letting it slowly populate all of the rest of the information it needs. It has a widget for most of the popular e-mail providers and even lets you import from other clients like Outlook. It usually works without a hitch, but it may give you some difficultly if you have two-step verification on the account you're trying to set up. The program only accepts two accounts if you use the free version, so you'll need to upgrade to Pro if you want unlimited accounts. Either way, the program sports a gorgeous layout that supports color-coding and multiple themes. There's even a built-in chat that supports ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, and most of the other popular IM clients.

eM Client is so loaded with features that it's easy to forget it only supports two accounts. While this could be a burden for some, others won't have a problem. If you're happy with that limitation, this program rewards you with a stylish layout and plenty of control over your accounts.

Outlook Express Backup

Create backups or archives of all your Outlook Express data with support for multiple identities to virtually any storage media using on-the-fly compression. Outlook Express Backup supports automatic media spanning and has an automatic backup scheduler. You can backup as a self-executable EXE file, this feature allows you to backup your data in the form of a standalone EXE file that can be executed on any machine even if Outlook Express Backup is not installed.

With this email app for Windows, you can backup the following things: Multiple Identities, Message Rules, All accounts, Preferences, Block Senders, Signatures, Stationery, Windows Address Book, Internet Explorer settings and Windows Favorites. Moreover, you can also view e-mails inside the backup file without having to restore them first. Outlook Express Backup supports a wide selection of storage media, it can back up to hard disk locations, LAN, FTP, CD, DVD, removable devices etc ... and it gives the user a choice between 3 backup modes, Normal Backup, Incremental Backup, and Mirror Backup

Although Outlook Express Backup's purpose is fairly narrow, it does what it does very well, with a full complement of features we expect to see in a good backup utility. Its name defines its limits; this program will back up your Outlook Express e-mail and configuration files. However, it does go a bit beyond that by also backing up Internet Explorer bookmarks and any files that you manually select. The interface is nice and clean, highlighting its three main functions: backing up, restoring, and scheduling. A wizard walks you through the creation of a backup, which is useful for novice users. The program includes essential features for a backup utility, such as the ability to schedule jobs, compression of backup files, and encryption of your archive. You also can choose the level of compression and encryption. One unfortunate drawback is that you can't include folders among the manually selected files, making it inappropriate for more general backups. This program is extremely useful for those who use Outlook Express and don't know where its files are hidden. If you can figure that out, however, a more general backup utility is a better option.

Mailbird

Mailbird is a desktop e-mail client for your Windows PC. Mailbird is packed with apps, features, shortcuts, and software upgrades optimized to boost your productivity and save you hours in your inbox. It can be just a simple e-mail app, or your versatile dashboard boosting your productivity and organizing your life. Quick compose and response to cut down on e-mailing time, inline action bar to organize everything in a flash, seamless offline access to manage your e-mail from anywhere. Mailbird interface keeps your inbox looking zen, eliminates e-mail clutter with beautiful organization capabilities, and makes managing your e-mail a breeze.

Eudora OSE

Eudora is a mail and news application based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's not developers' intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, they want to complement it. Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird.

Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail brings together multiple e-mail accounts and calendars into one easy-to-use program. Access and edit your e-mail and calendar events, even when you are offline, and sync your changes later. Windows Live Mail helps to maximize your e-mail security across multiple e-mail accounts. Mail combines the ease of use of Outlook Express, with the speed of Windows Live. Get multiple e-mail accounts in one program - Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo. It also has a calendar. Mail combines the ease of use of Outlook Express, with the speed of Windows Live.

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook 2019 is designed to help you focus on what's important with a clear view of email, calendars, and contacts. It includes many features to enhance your communication abilities. Respond faster with inline replies, flag, delete, or mark your messages read or unread with handy commands in the message list, and quick glance at your schedule, an appointment, or details about someone you're emailing. See all your contact details in one place with a people card which collects all the key details about a contact in one place: phone, email, address, company info, social media updates, even whether they're available. Microsoft Outlook 2016 includes built-in support for Exchange ActiveSync, which can synchronize Hotmail contents with Outlook to put all those together. It also has a local weather forecast because in Calendar view, along with current conditions.

Microsoft Outlook for Windows offers a thoughtful way to organize your inbox and ties into the power of Microsoft's formidable email services.

Pros:

Nicely arranged inbox: Outlook uses what Microsoft calls the "Focused Inbox" to help you sort through your emails. The Focused Inbox gathers email into two tabs: Focused (of course) and Other. The Focused tab shows email from coworkers, family, friends -- email Outlook thinks you need to respond to. The Other tab holds email from mailing lists, social apps, marketing messages -- anything that Outlook thinks doesn't require a response.

Manage your calendar: From Outlook, you can view your linked calendars. Schedule meetings, see available meetings for others, and get reminders. And you can sync Outlook with other calendars, such as Google Calendar.

Outlook is part of Microsoft Office 365: Microsoft Outlook fills the the email slot in the Microsoft Office suite. For $69.99 a year, get the Office 365 Personal edition, which along with Outlook, offers Word, the word-processing workhorse; PowerPoint, the cross-platform slideshow app; OneNote, for note-taking; Excel, the industrial-strength number-cruncher; OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage service; and Skype, for voice and video calls.

For $99 a year, subscribe to the Office 365 Home edition to share Microsoft's productivity apps with four other family members. Or, for $149.99, you can just buy outright the Office Home and Student 2016 for PC edition, which includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

Or available all by itself: If you don't need the other Office apps, you can download Microsoft Outlook 2016 separately for $129.99. The standalone Outlook for Windows includes bug fixes and improvements but not the next major edition of software, like you get with the subscription. The standalone version also doesn't include OneDrive services and Skype. But, really, for 20 bucks more, why wouldn't you just buy the whole Office suite?

Works with Microsoft Exchange: The Outlook app can sync your email, contacts, calendar and all your files from Microsoft Exchange servers, Exchange Online, Office 365, and Outlook.com. And it can even handle your Hotmail, Live, and MSN email accounts. Setup is easy for a personal account. For a work or school account, you may need to do a bit more to get the email account set up, so have your server setting details handy when you start.

Syncs across Outlook platforms: You can access your Outlook email anywhere you can find Microsoft's email app: On your Android phone and iPhone, through the Microsoft Office 365 suite, or via outlook.live.com.

Cons:

The desktop version is pricey: If you need the official Microsoft software for Exchange, Outlook is it. And if you want a standalone email app instead of using your browser, Outlook is a solid choice. Otherwise, it's hard to justify spending $129.99 on an email program. The good news is, the Outlook apps are free.

In a word, Microsoft Outlook does a great job of organizing your email messages. If you are looking for a full-featured desktop email app, Microsoft Outlook may be just what you're looking for.

Thunderbird

With Thunderbird, you can specify where your email is stored locally, schedule backups, and manage server settings. It also provides some security features like end-to-end encryption that aren't found in other clients. Because it's open-source, Thunderbird has a catalog of add-ons by various developers to help enhance the user experience. And most importantly, it is all free.

Though it is not designed with a modern UI, you can so many things with it. For example, you can customize the look of this Windows app for email, select privacy settings, and choose basic functions like email composition options and more.

To use this email app for Windows, you can click Tools>Add-on Options to see the extensions available to get more but of Thunderbird. Smart templates and Quicktext let you create email templates for quick responses. Send later lets you schedule future times to send emails or send messages repeatedly using rules such as "every two days".

Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. It has special support for Novell NetWare LANs that allow it to operate intuitively and with almost no maintenance. Pegasus Mail gives you multiple viewing options; automated rule-based filtering and content control; MailMerge and distribution list functions; support for SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, and PH protocols; comprehensive HTML mail generation; address books with aliasing functions; and even a spelling checker.

Pegasus Mail allows you to send, receive, and manage your email, whether on your network or Gmail, Yahoo, or other Internet-based accounts.

Pros:

Easy setup: From the initial install and setup, Pegasus Mail helps guide you with easy-to-follow wizards and a good Help file/user manual. For single users, you may have to look up the POP information for your Internet emails, but for the most part, the work is done for you. Setting up for multiple users does require some tech know-how, but the Help file also covers setup options in detail.

Multi-user support: We liked the fact that each user could have their own folders and separate setup, but you could also opt to share an address book with all users.

Easy to navigate: Similar to Outlook, the left pane holds a tree list of your email-related folders, which you can view in more detail on the right. There are more icons, but descriptive tooltips help explain the purpose of each.

Cons:

Interface: We'll have to nitpick here because Pegasus Mail was an all-around good app in our tests. If we could change one thing, it might be to spruce up the utilitarian interface. It's hard to quibble when other paid email clients aren't that pretty either, but it is the program's weakest point.

With its multi-account support and clean, easy-to-navigate interface, Pegasus Mail is a great tool. Even if you've never set up an email client before, the wizards and helpful user manual will give you all the help you need. Best of all, it costs nothing to try.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Microsoft Outlook provides a single, integrated solution for organizing and managing your digital communication tools such as e-mail and instant messaging, along with all your day-to-day information--from calendars and contacts to task lists and notes. Outlook controls the deluge of e-mail, appointments, and contacts, helping you manage your time and tasks more effectively while making it easier to synthesize information and share it with others.

Mulberry

Mulberry started off life as a software project that was really meant to help the author learn more about the internet and internet protocols used for email. However, it became much more than that and garnered support from a small (in internet terms) group of users and institutions many of whom relied on the product as their primary email tool.

Whilst it started as only an IMAP client and only on Mac OS, it has grown to cover not only other email protocols, but also calendaring and scheduling and is available on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems.

Adherence to standards is a key belief on the part of the developers, and active participation in the Internet Engineering Task Force and the standards process is an important aspect.

Ultimately the failure of the original company (for a whole host of reasons) was really a reflection of the fact that Mulberry had failed to grow a market share that could sustain the company in a market where free clients (of varying quality) are readily available.

Now Mulberry itself is free, though its future is still cloudy in terms of whether the development will advance or not.