My Mail

Emails are now a common thing, and chances are you own more than one account, given the variety of different providers. A common method to access your account is via web browsers, but there are other applications, such as My Mail that want to deliver the whole experience directly to your desktop.

On the visual side of things, the application stores all of its features in a pretty clean interface, with almost all of the space dedicated to your personal email account. All functions are triggered from a small menu that can be placed in one of several preset locations.

A neat advantage is that the application isn’t based on a specific email service, with the possibility to access just about any provider you normally would via a web browser. However, you can only configure one account, but you can run more instances of the application at the same time, although you need to configure the new one each time.

In fact, My Mail is nothing more than a custom-made web browser that takes you to a specific page, but tries to trick you into writing down an email provider. Thus, you’re free to launch any website, but there’s little to no reason to do this, considering there aren’t any navigation buttons. What’s more, it doesn’t support all types of content, with a high chance to result in a crash.

The application can also be minimized, which makes it go directly to the system tray. The corresponding icon lets you open the panel, and even shows if there are new items, but only on mouse over. Sadly, there’s no built-in notification system, so unless you manually check your inbox, you’re not alerted.

All things considered, we can safely state that My Mail comes with good intentions and wants to be just the right email desktop client. Sure enough it can take you to any of your providers, with the possibility to perform all regular operations, but the lack of a proper notification system has a considerable impact on overall practicality.