| Foxmail | |||||
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| Original author | Allen Zhang (张小龙)[1] | ||||
| Developer | Tencent | ||||
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows andmacOS | ||||
| Available in | English and Chinese | ||||
| Type | E-mail client | ||||
| License | Proprietary software withTerms of Use | ||||
| Website | https://www.foxmail.com/ | ||||
Foxmail is afreewaree-mail client developed byTencent.
Foxmail was originally written byAllen Zhang (张小龙), an alumnus ofHuazhong University of Science and Technology inWuhan. Foxmail was acquired in 2005 by Tencent Holdings.[1]
According to a 2001Sina.com survey, Foxmail had a 32.92% market share in China.[2] In 2003, in a joint press-release withVerisign promotingInternationalized domain names, the authors' reported over 3 million daily Foxmail users in China.[3] (For perspective, theCNNIC reported a total number of 35 million Internet users in China in January 2002.[4]) Foxmail tutorials are found in several Internet literacy books for the Chinese market.[5][6][7][8]
The Dutch edition ofPC 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 (the last one before the acquisition), which is not affected by this issue.[9]
Foxmail 5 violates RFC 822 (and 2822, 5322) by putting 8-bit characters in the subject and address header fields.[citation needed] It is said to supportChinese Domain Name standards from RFC3454, RFC3490, RFC3491, and RFC3492 published in March 2003 byIETF.[10]
