Foxmail

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Foxmail

Foxmail 6 beta 4 under Windows XP
Developed by Tencent
Initial release  ?
Stable release 6  (August 3, 2007) [+/−]
Written in  ?
OS Microsoft Windows
Available in English and Chinese
Genre E-mail client
License  ?
Website www.foxmail.com.cn

Foxmail is a cost-free e-mail client owned by Tencent. Market share reported over 3 million users in China. Original author Xiaolong Zhang (张小龙), an alumni of HUST in Wuhan. It current supports POP3 and IMAP4(version 6.5 beta 2).


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[edit] Standards support

Foxmail 5 violates RFC822 by sending user names, subject, and other message headers in raw GB2312 as a result can be marked as spam by anti-spam measures:

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 0.1 FROM_NO_LOWER          From address has no lower-case characters
 4.3 SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS     Subject: has too many raw illegal characters
 1.6 HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS     Headers have too many raw illegal characters

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