i.Scribe - Fast, Safe and Portable Email Client
Posted on May 10, 2008 at 5:01 am
Ease of access is one of the reasons why web based email or web mail programs such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and others are the most popular way to compose, read, send and receive email these days. However, do you know that using an email client has its own advantages?
The ability to download and compose emails offline, when no Internet connection is available is one of the primary reasons why some of us still prefer to use an email client instead of being fully dependent on web mail. Another advantage of using an email client is that you have a single point of access for all email accounts and contacts that you have. There are many cool email clients out there that you can use, such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Incredimail and others.
i.Scribe is yet another email client that is fast, safe and portable - so you can take your emails with you, anywhere you go.
i.Scribe Features
i.Scribe is a lite version of the Scribe email client but that doesn’t necessary means that it is light in features. Here are some good reasons on why you should choose i.Scribe as your email client:
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Free to use with no nagging advertisements asking you to buy the full product.
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Easy to use - the interface resembles and works like other popular, desktop email clients so it won’t be long until you get to know how to use it.
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Fast - i.Scribe takes less than 3 seconds to start and shut down. The flat file format that it uses to store emails makes displaying your emails much faster.
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Portable - you can install i.Scribe on a portable device such as a USB Flash drive and use it to access your emails on any computer. All of your emails will be stored in one single, transferable directory so moving emails between computers won’t pose any problem at all. This makes it even easier for users to copy and backup all their emails at another safe location.
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Safe from viruses - i.Scribe protects you from the danger of email viruses such as Klez and Bugbear by using its own HTML engine, instead of using Internet Explorer. It also prevents viruses from spreading by hiding your email contact list from other malicious programs. Additionally, i.Scribe prevents automatic opening of file executables (e.g. .exe file attachment). To open them, you have to download them first to your hard disk and open them at your own will.
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Small in size and requirements - the download size for i.Scribe is only 1MB and it takes only about 3-4MB of memory to run on your computer. That means that you can run i.Scribe on really low end computers.
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Comes with built-in Bayesian spam filter to help you tag, monitor and filter spam / junk email effectively.
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Built in calendar and contact list / address book.
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Cross platform - support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
- Constantly updated by its developers to accommodate new user requests and functions.
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Plugins support - for example, Aspell for spell checking, Autozip for automatic compression of file attachments and more.
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Import and export emails and contacts from and to multiple formats such as mbox, MAPI, MBX and more.
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Multi-language support.
Overall, the best part of i.Scribe is that I can download, read and compose my emails anywhere, anytime that I want to. The fact that it is built with the ability to secure your emails and contacts from viruses are also a big plus. Try i.Scribe today!
This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya
Tags: email client, desktop email client, portable email client, fast email client, free email client
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As long as people have outlook they wont be tempted to try free ones. I tried Windows live mail, thunderbird, incredimail and then came back to Outlook 2007.
Nirmal, good point. I’ve tried out a couple too, but Outlook still has a lot of features that I can’t seem to live without! I’ve used Bat Mail myself and that was the closest to making me switch!
For me, it is just a matter of personal preferences. No problem with using multiple clients - that is why most email clients support mail import / export features.