yMail Updated

[Phoenix]

yMail. Freeware email client with bayesian filtering and other tools.
URL: http://www.spacejock.com/yMail.html
Updated to 0.3.123
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[jo]

yMail. Freeware email client with bayesian filtering and other tools.
URL: http://www.spacejock.com/yMail.html

Thx for this; it looks a very nice little beast. Fast simple and
efficient, I will play with it for a few days.

 

[badgolferman]

Thx for this; it looks a very nice little beast. Fast simple and
efficient, I will play with it for a few days.

Please post back and let us know.

 

[jo]

Please post back and let us know.

OK; two days with it on XP Pro, 900mhz, 336MB RAM, and 98SE, 233mhz,
32MB RAM and I am quite impressed with it.
I've put a couple of hundred mails through it on six mail accounts and
am well impressed with the bayesian filtering. The 'manual' filtering
is a bit buggy and unreliable and the order of filters can change by
themselves, which is irritating.
It was very fast, stable and efficient on both machines.
It is obviously still being developed: some menus are empty, including
'make new folder'. Not being able to create a new folder is a real
pain.
Sending mail is unreliable, with erroneous error messages, and not all
sent mail is actually stored in the 'sent mail' folder.
Another pain for me was the inability to manually delete mails on the
server.
And no kb support.

The d/l process at the site is silly and the 'installer' d/l is daft,
at 3.6 MB in order to d/l a 1MB app that could just about be released
as a standalone package. I tried the RemindMe app from the site too,
and it is not worth the d/l; however it is bundled with the mail app
where it works nicely and is a nice enhancement.

This is obviously quite a negative review, which feels strange to me
because I really like the prog. I suppose I respect the fact that the
writer has written something that absolutely fits his needs, and has
written it well.
It doesn't fit my needs though... partly (I assume) because bayesian
filtering doesn't really work for a billy no mates like me who gets
loads of spam but little real mail, unless there is reliable manual
filtering and the ability to create new folders.

Oh, and closing the app sends it to the sys tray. And it checks for
updates by default so phones home on first launch.

Ho hum; I'll stop now.

 

[badgolferman]

OK; two days with it on XP Pro, 900mhz, 336MB RAM, and 98SE, 233mhz,
32MB RAM and I am quite impressed with it.
I've put a couple of hundred mails through it on six mail accounts and
am well impressed with the bayesian filtering. The 'manual' filtering
is a bit buggy and unreliable and the order of filters can change by
themselves, which is irritating.
It was very fast, stable and efficient on both machines.
It is obviously still being developed: some menus are empty, including
'make new folder'. Not being able to create a new folder is a real
pain.
Sending mail is unreliable, with erroneous error messages, and not all
sent mail is actually stored in the 'sent mail' folder.
Another pain for me was the inability to manually delete mails on the
server.
And no kb support.

The d/l process at the site is silly and the 'installer' d/l is daft,
at 3.6 MB in order to d/l a 1MB app that could just about be released
as a standalone package. I tried the RemindMe app from the site too,
and it is not worth the d/l; however it is bundled with the mail app
where it works nicely and is a nice enhancement.

This is obviously quite a negative review, which feels strange to me
because I really like the prog. I suppose I respect the fact that the
writer has written something that absolutely fits his needs, and has
written it well.
It doesn't fit my needs though... partly (I assume) because bayesian
filtering doesn't really work for a billy no mates like me who gets
loads of spam but little real mail, unless there is reliable manual
filtering and the ability to create new folders.

Oh, and closing the app sends it to the sys tray. And it checks for
updates by default so phones home on first launch.

Ho hum; I'll stop now.

Thanks for your time and effort. I think I'll stay with OE for now.