Mail-Check

Mail-Check -- Mail-Check is the latest background mail poller and is offered in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. Mail-Check's strongest feature is the ability to monitor multiple accounts on multiple servers at the same time. While Mail-Check is roughly similar to its competition (e-Mail Notify, Ladybird, and Post Office), it is still the youngest in terms of development and lacks some features that are common-fare for the other clients. Mail-Check could benefit from right mouse button functionality, online help documentation, integration with the Windows 95 task bar for the 32-bit version, a status bar for displaying message progress, message header retrieval, and an audio alert for new messages. Still, despite its current limitations, Mail-Check is a graphically appealing and promising client that will undoubtedly see massive improvements over the next few months. And thanks to its freeware status, Mail-Check is already an app that will instantly please more than a few netizens. Pros: Background mail checker that can check multiple mailboxes on multiple servers Cons: Lacks some of the features found in the competitions' releases New: No obvious new features in v0.5c Version Reviewed: 0.5c Date of Review: 2/28/96