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An email client comes in handy especially when you have more than 1 email account. It makes it easy to manage your messages when your accounts have different service providers which might require you to make use of multiple browsers. This, is in addition to other features, gives you a highly functional mail that is great for business. So the question is – which are the popular email clients of 2018?
A good email client asides helping you keep an organized inbox, should also offer some extra features such as data encryption as well as integration with video live chat, RSS feeds, calendars & other services. These are few of the important features you should look out for in an email client.
Here are some popular & highly functional email clients for the year 2018:
eM Client
For close to a decade, eM client has been serving its users by offering a number of interesting features. Migrating your messages from platforms like Exchange, Gmail, ICloud & others is completely easy with eM client. It also allows you to import more than just your emails. You can import your contacts as well as your calendars as well which can also be managed separately if you want.
eM client also has an integrated chat function which supports platforms like Google Chat, Jabber & so on. You also get advanced features such as auto translation, encryption delayed sending among others. On the downside, however, eM client supports only 2 email accounts on the free package & you need to pay if you want to add more accounts.
Mailbird
Mailbird is a versatile communication platform which allows you to do more than just manage your emails. It allows you to add apps for chatting, scheduling & also makes it possible to sync files. Mailbird can also double as a team platform. You can also connect Mailbird to your Facebook accounts & it can be seamlessly linked to your WhatsApp, Moo.do & Asana.
Mailbird’s premium offers interesting features such as email snoozing, speed reading & also makes it easy to preview attachment files. It is simple to set up & import messages from your email platforms.
Hiri
Hiri is specially designed for the business minded. This versatile client is popular for its many productivity-boosting features that help save valuable time on managing emails. Hiri has a smart dashboard that makes it possible to see your unread messages at a glance & can also help you to determine which emails need an urgent reply & which ones you can leave for a while. That way you won’t have to spend time reading emails that aren’t important.
Hiri also has a compose window that is designed to help you save time when you are sending emails as well. It takes away all fancy formatting that might slow you down so that you get only the essential features. The only downside with using Hiri is that it currently supports only Microsoft email services like Outlook, Hotmail, Exchange & does not support Gmail yet.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird’s latest update not only gave it a smarter look; the email client now comes with improved functionalities as well. There is no need to download additional extensions in order to use features like your calendar anymore. Thunderbird is also expandable, so if you want a feature that isn’t available, you can simply download a 3rd party extension to use it.
One of the coolest things about Thunderbird is that unlike other email clients that only allows a limited number of email addresses until you upgrade for a fee, this client allows you to add as many accounts as possible for free.
Opera Mail
Opera developers have always emphasized email as an important feature of their browser. And they have been able to develop a standalone email client to make it easy to manage & organize your mails. Opera Mail is a highly functional open source email client with a lot of features that makes managing your emails absolutely simple & convenient. Opera mail has features such as message filtering, message saving & a wide array of other features that make it possible for you to fully customize your inbox.
Furthermore, you can import as many email accounts you want free of charge. It also supports RSS feeds which makes it quite a versatile alternative to important Web apps such as Feedly.