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Listing of Popular Mail Clients

Mail clients to test against for Functionality and HTML mail

Below is a chart of Mail clients that were used to post to a mailling list that I have been subscribed to. It was a snapshot of the mails that were sent in during the month of February 2004.

With a bit of effort, this listing could provide a basis for starting a survey of mail client rendering functions. I believe this is a critical piece of information that could be used to gather an understanding specifically of how HTML mail is handled in each of these clients.

Obviously, this list is not exhaustive. It should be added to and similar lists should be generated from other mailing lists and other mailboxes. If you have a large .mbox file or mail archive that has mails from many different people, please consider sending it to me so that I may extract additional clients and begin to establish some additional stats for them. At some point in the future, I will put these into a database that could handle annotations for the client, and specifically note the differences in versions.

Mailer Msgs Percent OS Guess?
Apple Mail 1054 40.85 Mac
Microsoft Entourage 235 9.11 Mac
Microsoft Outlook Express for Windows 163 6.32 Win
Netscape/Mozilla Mail 6.x 161 6.24 ?
Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 125 4.84 Win
Microsoft Outlook 113 4.38 Win?
EnRoute for NewtonOS 47 1.82 Newton
Mutt 42 1.63 UNIX
MailV for Newton 35 1.36 Newton
Eudora for Windows 32 1.24 Win
KMail 29 1.12 ?
GyazMail 24 0.93 ?
CTM PowerMail 4.x 23 0.89 ?
Netscape Mail 4.x 21 0.81 ?
Microsoft Outlook Express for MacOS 19 0.74 Mac
Mailsmith 2.1.1 Blindsider) 18 0.70 Mac
SimpleMail for NewtonOS 18 0.70 Newton
AOL+5.0 17 0.66 ?
Internet Mail Service 12 0.47 ?
Nisus Email 11 0.43 Mac
Lotus Notes 9 0.35 Win?
Mozilla Thunderbird 9 0.35 ?
Eudora Pro 1.1 for Newton 8 0.31 Newton
SquirrelMail/1.4.2-1.7.ct 8 0.31 UNIX
Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 6 0.23 ?
Ximian Evolution 6 0.23 UNIX
iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.12 built Feb 13 2003) 6 0.23 ?
AT&T Message Center v1.x 5 0.19 ?
Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.6.6 webedge20-101-174-112-20020617) 5 0.19 ?
AOL Communicator 4 0.16 ?
IMP Horde) 3.x 4 0.16 ?
Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.11 webedge20-101-194-20030622) 4 0.16 ?
Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 206 4 0.16 Mac
Atlas Mailer 2.0 3 0.12 ?
Balsa 2.0.14 3 0.12 ?
CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.1.8 3 0.12 ?
Magellan 1.8.2.141.10G+-B Macintosh) 3 0.12 Mac
Exmh 2 0.08 ?
V-webmail 1.5.0 http 2 0.08 Web
Internet Messaging Program IMP) 4.0-cvs 1 0.04 ?
NeoMail 1.25 1 0.04 ?
Netscape Webmail 1 0.04 Web
Novell GroupWise 5.5.4 1 0.04 ?
Prayer v1.0.5 1 0.04 ?
The Bat! 1 0.04 ?

If you would like to add clients or have additional thoughts, please post them to the Wiki Discussion Board.



 
 

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