Foxmail is a
freeware e-mail client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
A web app, web application which provides message management, composition, and receptio ...
developed by
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. ( zh, s=腾讯, p=Téngxùn) is a Chinese Multinational corporation, multinational technology Conglomerate (company), conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. It is one of the highest grossing multimed ...
.
History
Foxmail was originally written by
Allen Zhang (张小龙), an alumnus of
Huazhong University of Science and Technology in
Wuhan
Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...
. Foxmail was acquired in 2005 by Tencent Holdings.
Usage
According to a 2001
Sina.com survey, Foxmail had a 32.92% market share in China. In 2003, in a joint press-release with
Verisign promoting
Internationalized domain name
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s, the authors' reported over 3 million daily Foxmail users in China. (For perspective, the
CNNIC reported a total number of 35 million Internet users in China in January 2002.
) Foxmail tutorials are found in several Internet literacy books for the Chinese market.
Reviews
The Dutch edition of ''
PC Magazine
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Overview
''PC Mag ...
'' reported that version 6.0 of Foxmail occasionally sends email usage data to datacollect.foxmail.com.cn, but otherwise generally described it as an "excellent email client", recommending version 5.0.8 (the last one before the acquisition), which is not affected by this issue.
Foxmail 5 violates RFC 822 (and 2822, 5322) by putting 8-bit characters in the subject and address header fields. It is said to support
Chinese Domain Name standards from RFC3454, RFC3490, RFC3491, and RFC3492 published in March 2003 by
IETF
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.
["FAQ for Chinese Domain Name". ''cnnic.net.cn''. China Internet Network Information Center. 10 October 2005. Retrieved at on 2 June 2011.]
References
External links
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Wang Once Again Critiques the New Features of Foxmail 6.5 (王者再出击 Foxmail 6.5新功能试用) Sina.com (Chinese)
Windows email clients
Tencent software
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