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yMail Portable description
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A standalone email client with spam filter ability
Portable yMail can be used as a spam cleaner for your existing email setup, and also as a standalone email client.
The program's spam filters use Bayesian techniques. You can show yMail which messages are spam and which are not (before you even download them to your computer!) and each time will adjust its filters to suit. After a few days, it will be able to sort mail quickly and efficiently without any input.
Portable yMail can also be used as a mail scanner - you don't have to use the email portion of the program, just use yMail to preview and automatically delete spam before downloading into your regular email software.
To protect you from viruses the program does not open attachments automatically. It warns you if you try and open attachments, and refuses point-blank to run executable files.
This email client wwill not render HTML emails, so it's proof against spam which runs off and loads web bugs when you preview it (That's one trick they use to confirm your email address is valid).
Portable yMail also ignores receive notifications, JavaScript, VB Script and Monkeyscript. Ok, I made the last one up, but if they invent a new kind of script or worm, yMail will continue to ignore it.
If you receive an HTML formatted email you can click a special link to open the message in your default browser, but I recommend against this unless you know the sender and know what they're sending you.
yMail will strip out all the HTML and show the text in the preview window anyway, so you'll have a pretty good idea of the content and you won't see flashen-blinken-lights or advertising banners.
Because you can easily tell yMail where your message store should be, it's possible to run yMail from a removable drive. Nothing is stored on the host computer, it's completely self-contained. Therefore, you can take yMail with you and simply copy your message folders back to your hard drive when you return. Here are some key features of "yMail Portable":
Privacy:
· yMail doesn't render html, doesn't load or display images, and completely ignores return-receipts, so it's immune to web bugs and other tricks for tracking whether you opened an email or not. Your email might not look as pretty as the sender intended, but who cares? If you receive an email you simply have to see in all its glory, you can still view it in your web browser with a click. (I don't recommend it, since this will open you up to all the nasties mentioned before.)
Spam Filters:
· yMail's spam filters use Bayesian algorithm, which means you can tell yMail which messages are spam and which are not (before you even download them to your computer) and yMail will adjust its filters to suit. After a few days it should be able to seperate spam and regular mail quickly and efficiently without any input from the user.
Scanning:
· yMail can also be used as a mail scanner - you don't have to use the email portion of the program, just use yMail to preview and automatically delete spam before downloading into your regular email software.
SSL Support:
· The current release supports SSL encryption.
Attachments:
· For security reasons, yMail doesn't open or display attachments automatically. It warns you if you try and open attachments, and refuses point-blank to run executable files. It won't render HTML emails, so it's proof against spam which runs off and loads web bugs when you preview it (That's one trick they use to confirm your email address is valid)
· It also ignores receive notifications, javascript, vbscript and monkeyscript. Ok, I made the last one up, but if they invent a new kind of script or worm, yMail will continue to ignore it. If you DO receive an HTML formatted email you can click a special link to open the message in your default browser, but I recommend against this unless you know the sender AND know what they're sending you. yMail will strip out all the html and show the text in the preview window anyway, so you'll have a pretty good idea of the content AND you won't see flashen-blinken-lights or advertising banners.
Reliable:
· I've been using Mail since March 2003 and have yet to lose a single email or experience an unexplained crash, but it might just not work for you. Therefore, no guarantees.
Other features:
· Remind-Me-Please 3 is integrated with yMail, giving you control of task lists and upcoming events.
Requirements:
· Athlon or Pentium 4
· 512 MB of RAM
· .Net Framework
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Opens HTML attachments without displaying a warning message first
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