Eureka Email is an e-mail

E-mail

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 client. It has many features not found in other e-mail clients (see Features below).

History

Eureka Email began as a project of Sean O' Connor in mid 2002. He finally wrote the program and was available for download in November of that year. Updates were frequent at first, but began to decrease in availability (as the update from 2.0 to 2.1 took over a year). Up until March 2005, an update has yet to be released.

Version History

• 2002 Version 1.0
• 2003 Version 1.1
• 2003 Version 2.0
• 2004 Version 2.1
• 2005 Version 2.2

Bold text indicates most recent release.

Features

• View e-mails as icons: Allows you to assign icons to different senders.
• Intelligent junk mail filter: Analyzes junk mail
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   you drag into the junk mail folder, then blocks similar messages in the future.
• Multiple POP
  Post Office Protocol
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   accounts: Queries many different mail servers as the user specifies to keep the inbox clean.
• Grouping: Creates a group from a sender and all the people on that e-mail's CC list.
• Searching: Search for all the e-mails you've sent, all e-mail on the current subject (a "conversation"), and all e-mails from a company (or sender's domain).
• Spell checker: Checks every word and offers corrections
• Dismiss feature: This button sends e-mails to a user-specified folder when the user is done with it.
• Virus
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  /Trojan
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   blocker: Questions running a .EXE file before launching it (if the sender isn't in the address book
  Address book
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• Address book
  Address book
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  : Allows you to assign an icon and sound to a sender.