Desktop email client with support for multiple POP3 accounts, SSL, APOP, message reply and extraction, duplicates finder, and more.
- Portable EF Mailbox Manager
- Version :9.10
- License :Trial
- OS :Windows All
- Publisher :EFSoftware
Portable EF Mailbox Manager Description
Made as the portable edition of EF Mailbox Manager, this is an intuitive software application that you can use to manage emails from a desktop client with support for multiple accounts.
Portable app with a user-friendly GUI
Since installation is not required, you can save the program files in any location on the HDD and just click the .EXE file to launch EF Mailbox Manager. It’s also possible to save it to a removable storage unit in order to directly run it on any PC effortlessly. More importantly, it doesn’t modify Windows registry settings.
As far as the interface is concerned, EF Mailbox Manager adopts a regular window with a clear-cut structure that contains two panes for navigating accounts and reading messages.
Add multiple accounts to check for emails
You can get started by adding accounts to EF Mailbox Manager by indicating a name, POP3 server, login credentials, SSL connection mode, APOP, along with automatic mail checkup and download frequency.
Once connected to at least one account, the application lists all containing emails from the inbox folder and gives you the possibility to read messages, reply, delete them, or extract them to the local disk.
Manage emails and customize app settings
You can sort the messages by various criteria (e.g. account, size retrieved, time), ask the program to automatically select all duplicates so you can get rid of them and free up mail storage space, create and manage filters, use a search function to track down specific emails, as well as enable autocheck and autodownload mode.
It’s possible to customize the toolbar, font and colors, tinker with email backup and restore settings, switch to another UI language, make the frame stay on top of other windows, set the app to start minimized and to leave a copy of each message on the server, disable confirmations for message deletion, modify the default temporary files location and directory for extracting messages to, deactivate sound alerts, as well as assign a master password to protect the entire database, among other options.
Evaluation and conclusion
EF Mailbox Manager worked well throughout our evaluation, without hanging, crashing or showing error messages. It didn’t put a strain on computer performance, since it needed low CPU and memory to work properly.
However, we have noticed some issues in our case. The utility’s not very prompt when it comes to automatically identifying new messages (although the frequency was set to high). On top of that, it failed to show visual cues or trigger sound alerts on events. It seems that EF Mailbox Manager still needs more work.