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WiscMail - Using a Native Client

WiscMail provides the best experience if you use a native email client on your computer or mobile device.

Benefits of using Desktop Clients:

• Check your email right from your desktop or mobile device.
• Save your password in configurations.
• Check email from multiple accounts from one client such as WiscMail, WiscMail Plus, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail. . .etc
• Drag and drop messages from one account to another account seamlessly.
• Read and compose messages offline when you don't have an internet connection.
• Syncs your messages automatically and notifies you of new messages.
• Create new folders, tag your messages, and be organized.
• Create local folders in addition to folders on the server.
• Faster and more advanced email searching
• Easy to categorize multiple replies to one email.
• Nice and clean interface.
• Much more screen space to check/read emails.
• Customize emails your way, with new exciting fonts you like and with colorful backgrounds.
• Autofill email addresses when composing messages – as long as you know sender’s name.
• No timeouts

WiscMail works with all IMAP and POP compatible clients. You can use whichever client you are most comfortable with. The WiscMail team provides documentation and support for Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, Entourage, Windows Mail as well as a few older clients.

If you have a mobile device such as a cellphone, smartphone or PDA, you can use the software on your device to access WiscMail using IMAP. The WiscMail team provides basic support for all devices that are known to work with WiscMail, including iPhone/iPod Touch, Palm OS (Treo), Windows Mobile, and Blackberry.