Entered CNET Catalog: 07/31/2005
SKU: WPMAILENGPC
Manufacturer: Corel Corp.
Manufacturer description
WordPerfect MAIL is perfect for the office or home - wherever you depend on email to communicate, stay informed, and manage your time effectively. It is designed to help you enjoy the benefits that email offers, while reducing the challenges that stand in the way of effective communication. With lightning-fast search capabilities, you can find information anywhere, including folders, the calendar and contact list, even in attachments! WordPerfect MAIL also helps keep your email clean and organized with innovative filing capabilities and spam protection. Easy-to-use and full-featured, WordPerfect MAIL lets you bring in emails, folders and contacts from other email programs, like Microsoft Outlook. Now you can start enjoying the advantages of email communication - faster and easier than ever before.User opinions
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User Rating: 
2/10
Average features
Pros: None I know of
Cons: Slow startup, Proprietary database, Awful built-in anti-spam
Review:
I purchased this online from Corel in March 2006 because I LOVE WordPerfect and it had a built-in anti-virus program. Immediatedly after installation the built-in anti virus program SAproxypro would not function properly. It has a "Training" database you are suppose to feed 200 spam and not-spam messages. After six months of tinkering with it IT DOES NOT WORK. I made five online emails to Corel Customer Support and they either side-stepped my questions or plain just did not answer. Turns out to talk to a real person at Corel you have to pay, even limited support.
The WPMail program itself is very slow to load, over two minutes. I installed Service Pack 1 and it crashed the program every time I tried to use the anti-spam portion of the program. I finally had to uninstall the Service Pack and reinstall the entire program. Corel said it was because a DLL file was in the wrong folder. I made their recommended changes and IT DID NOTHING.
I'm now dumping Corel WPMail for Eudora 7. Now that I want to swtich I find that Corel WPMail will not export its database to Eudora, Microsoft or any other programs. It's a proprietary database.
The WPMail program itself is very slow to load, over two minutes. I installed Service Pack 1 and it crashed the program every time I tried to use the anti-spam portion of the program. I finally had to uninstall the Service Pack and reinstall the entire program. Corel said it was because a DLL file was in the wrong folder. I made their recommended changes and IT DID NOTHING.
I'm now dumping Corel WPMail for Eudora 7. Now that I want to swtich I find that Corel WPMail will not export its database to Eudora, Microsoft or any other programs. It's a proprietary database.
User Rating: 
7/10
Nice Alternative to Outlook, but needs more features
Pros: Easy set-up, easy interface and great search function
Cons: Does not support read receipt email, and it need a better calendar feature
Review:
I was looking for an alternative to Microsoft Outlook, which I have used for over ten years. I have tried many other email programs, but this is the only one I have kept. I have been using it now for about two months and like it. It includes a nice search function and easy features to make organizing messages a breeze. As noted above, however, it does not support read receipt or delivery receipt features, which I used to use frequently. Notwithstanding this, I have continued to use WordPerfect Mail and do like it better than Outlook. I look forward to updates which may incorporate more features.
Updated
Well, after another three months using WPMail, I have decided to go back to Outlook (Ugh!) Several glitches I found created problems for me, including the fact there is no way (that I can determine) to configure to delete mail from the server when I download messages. My server ran out of space, as I retain all my messages in nested folders. I also get a lot of attachments and like Outlook's ability to copy attachments and "paste" them into new messages which WPMail does not allow.
Beware - migrating from Outlook to WPMail is easy (it easily imports Outlook messages), but reverse migration is impossible. WPMail uses .mbox format which Outlook does not recognize.
Well, I gave it a good try, but too many issues that I don't have time to deal with, so back to Outlook for me.
Well, after another three months using WPMail, I have decided to go back to Outlook (Ugh!) Several glitches I found created problems for me, including the fact there is no way (that I can determine) to configure to delete mail from the server when I download messages. My server ran out of space, as I retain all my messages in nested folders. I also get a lot of attachments and like Outlook's ability to copy attachments and "paste" them into new messages which WPMail does not allow.
Beware - migrating from Outlook to WPMail is easy (it easily imports Outlook messages), but reverse migration is impossible. WPMail uses .mbox format which Outlook does not recognize.
Well, I gave it a good try, but too many issues that I don't have time to deal with, so back to Outlook for me.
