Eight email programs for the desktop in a comparison test Never change a running client? The test candidates Exclude incompatibility One-to-one meetings Conclusion Test table Article in c’t 24 / 2020 read Desktop mail programs in the age of smartphones and web mailers? Why, surely! The well-known feature monsters are still very popular because they support the bread-and-butter business with precisely configurable filters, with text modules or simply with keyboard shortcuts.

The mobile and web clients enliven business as constant competition, so New concepts are also developing in the desktop market: the established programs not only keep pace with them, they also learn more features and even software that is now fully developed, such as Thunderbird, receives updates with new functions again.

The test field includes the email clients Airmail, Apple Mail, eM Client, Evolution, Geary, Outlook, Thunderbird and Windows Mail.

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