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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 20, 2006
- Total Downloads: 13,137,610
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 695 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
With its straightforward interface and whimsical attitude, IncrediMail appeals to the casual e-mailer, but actually offers enough features--like Exchange server support--to be functional for more serious endeavors. You can personalize your messages with background stationery from a variety of categories, including animals, art, technology, and moods. The program installs with about 50 backgrounds, most with a cartoony feel, and you can download more online or create your own with Letter Creator (a 10-use trial comes with this download). It supports recorded voice attachments, and the premium version supports skins.
There are a few drawbacks. The overall interface lacks pizazz and looks like it was last overhauled back when emoticons were new. There's a questionnaire that must be filled out when installing the program, annoying even at three questions long. More significantly, IncrediMail turns into quite the resource pig when playing around with graphics-heavy backgrounds.
The features are solid, though. The program offers basic e-mail client functions, including sending, receiving, and organizing messages; managing your address book; and creating rules for how to handle certain messages. Among its other included features are an integrated JunkFilter that lets you assign permission for senders or domains, IMAP support via a POP3 emulator, and Message Rules functions that work in concert with JunkFilter. IncrediMail makes standard e-mail a bit more fun for home users, especially for kids and kids at heart.
Publisher's description
From IncrediMail :IncrediMail is a fun, powerful and user-friendly email program available to everyone free of charge. IncrediMail lets you add 1000s of backgrounds, emoticons, ecards, sounds, animations, and 3D effects to your emails. You also get fun animated characters to notify you of incoming email.IncrediMail is compatible with leading email services including Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL, and supports POP mail protocols as well as HTML mail formatting. Importing your active email accounts and messages with IncrediMail is quick and simple.
Version 5.0 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.
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User reviews of IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 695 votes
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57 out of 65 people found this review helpful
Version: IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
"used to be a great ,i unistalled&went back to outlook express"
Pros: colorfull spam box
Cons: they got greedy and slapped a high price tag on the junk box,which you must renew, no thanks
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
"IncrediMail is fun, very good and with a free spam filter!"
Pros: I used to use Thunderbird but this email client is much more fun. I went back to use Thunderbird for a while but found it very dull compared to the extremely colourful IncrediMail. There are a lot of funny notifies to choose from. One is a old fashioned English butler that keeps coming up on the desktop each time you have received a mail telling - you have a mail Sir - with an English accent (or Madame if you want to). Quite fun! Extremely funny (and serious) letters, animations, emoticons (smilies) and skins (and nice skins too) to choose from. Some letters are really beautiful. It is very stable. I cannot think of using another email client. This one is the best. You can combine this email client with Cactus Spam Filter. Cactus Spam Filter is very good, free and very stable. It is made to work with IncrediMail and several other email clients as well, and you can download it here at download.com.
I uninstalled IncrediMail once and installed it again and all the letters I had written and received were all there. None were lost! I was glad over this fact. I use the premium version. It works very well with the free antivirus software Avast! Home Edition, which is very good and stable too and you can also download it here at download.com.
I strongly recommend IncrediMail!
Bjorn Lundahl
Gothenburg, Sweden
Cons: Sometimes when you write an email it, automatically, changes a letter in the middle of a sentence and in the beginning of a word to a capital one. You can change it back but it is annoying!
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31 out of 32 people found this review helpful
Version: IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
Pros: Incredimail used to be the coolest e-mail client out there. It was so good that I actually bought a lifetime subscription to both it and the Letter Creator. It's still a very flashy program, but...
Cons: The developers got real greedy. Incredimail used to have a decent junk mail filter. Then they separated it from the main program and started charging an annual subscription fee for it. What if Microshaft did the same thing with Internet Explorer? There'd be riots in the street!
Then the Incredimail folks have to constantly remind you that you don't have their junk mail filter by assaulting you with their really annoying ads -- even registered users of the main app are not immune!
But you can still have the best of both worlds. Download the full Incredimail program (not the on-line install) from their web site. Then find and download a copy of Incredimail for Office Outlook Add-On (version 1612). This program integrates Incredimail's best features with Office Outlook. It was developed by the Incredimail people themselves and they used to offer it as a free download on their web site. But you can't get it there anymore, since they are so greedy. You can still find it on the net, though.
Install the full Incredimail program and then the Add-On. What you'll end up with is a hybrid application that is basically Outlook -- along with all its great features, such as the junk mail filter -- combined with Incredimail's rich content. It really is the best of both worlds! And there are no annoying ads!
Another tip: Go to Incredimail's web site and download everything from their content Gallery. Do this on a regular basis, because when they add new content, they often move some of their old content to the "Gold" section. It's appropriately named -- you have to part with some of your gold (money) to download it. I have many years worth of Incredimail content on my system that I got for free, but which they now charge for -- a fact that makes my wife and friends quite jealous.
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41 out of 47 people found this review helpful
Version: IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
Pros: Used product for 8 weeks with good results... until it fell over.
Cons: When it crashed I would not reload and I lost all my email addresses and contact details had to start again with outlook. Not response from the incredimail site.. give it a miss.
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24 out of 25 people found this review helpful
Version: IncrediMail Xe build 5202469
Pros: Been using this program for a few years.
Cons: There is a bug in this latest edition.
Both a friend and I have noticed it.
If you `right click` to correct typing errors, you loose your email. We are awaiting a response from I/Mail.
At the moment we are using Ctrl+S to make sure we have a copy when restarted.
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