Foxmail


Foxmail is a freeware e-mail client developed by Tencent.

History

Foxmail was originally written by Allen Zhang, an alumnus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. 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 names, the authors' reported over 3 million daily Foxmail users in China. Foxmail tutorials are found in several Internet literacy books for the Chinese market.

Reviews

The Dutch edition of PC Magazine 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, which isn't affected by this issue.
Foxmail 5 violates RFC 822 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.