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Foxmail
is a
freeware
e-mail client
developed by
Tencent
.
History
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Foxmail was originally written by
Allen Zhang
(?小?), an alumnus of
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
in
Wuhan
. Foxmail was acquired in 2005 by Tencent Holdings.
[1]
Usage
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According to a 2001
Sina.com
survey, Foxmail had a 32.92% market share in China.
[2]
In 2003, in a joint press-release with
Verisign
promoting
Internationalized domain names
, the authors' reported over 3 million daily Foxmail users in China.
[3]
(For perspective, the
CNNIC
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]
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Reviews
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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 (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 support
Chinese Domain Name
standards from RFC3454, RFC3490, RFC3491, and RFC3492 published in March 2003 by
IETF
.
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References
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External links
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