Foxmail
Foxmail is a free email client owned by Tencent, which has email management and mail server functions. At the same time it also has functions such as RSS subscription, calendar, contacts.
| original author | Zhang Xiaolong |
|---|---|
| Developer | Tencent |
| stable version | 7.2.23 (November 3, 2021) |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows、OS X |
| language | Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English |
| type | email client |
| agreement | proprietary |
| website | www.foxmail.com |
history
Foxmail was originally developed in January 1997 by Zhang Xiaolong, a graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Its name is taken from the character Linghu Chong in Jin Yong's martial arts novel "Swordsman". On April 18, 2000, Foxmail was sold to Boda Company for 12 million yuan, and was subsequently acquired by Tencent Holdings on March 16, 2005.
use
According to the statistics of Sina.com in 2001, Foxmail has a market share of 32.92% in China. In 2003, a press release jointly issued by VeriSign to promote internationalized domain names revealed that Foxmail had more than 3 million users every day in China, and as a comparison, the total number of Chinese Internet users in January 2002 was 35 million. Tutorials for Foxmail can often be found in Internet literacy books for the Chinese market.
dispute
The Dutch edition of PC Magazine reported that Foxmail version 6.0 occasionally sends email usage data to datacollect.foxmail.com.cn, but is generally an "excellent email client" and recommends version 5.0.8, the last version before it was acquired by Tencent, which is not affected by this problem.
Foxmail 5 puts 8 characters in the subject and address header fields, which violates RFC 822, 2822 and 5322, but is to support Chinese domain name standards such as RFC3454, RFC3490, RFC3491 and RFC3492 released by IETF in March 2003.