Becky!
Encyclopedia
Becky! is an e-mail client
developed by the Japanese company RimArts from Matsudo City, Chiba
. In the early 2000s, it had received attention in East Asia due to good support for CJKV characters. It supports multiple accounts using the standard POP3/SMTP or IMAP protocols, with or without SSL, including the APOP
security feature, and supports PGP
encryption. It also has support for large number of plugins; one such plug-in offers Hotmail
access, another offers Usenet
newsgroups access.
Version 2.05 of the program was included in two 2004 round-up reviews in German magazines. PC Professionell (the German counterpart of PC Pro
) ranked it 11th out of 14 email clients tested. PC Direkt found it "insecure", and that it imitates Outlook design, but remarked that it can send voice messages.
A buffer overflow vulnerability is known to affect all version of Becky! before 2.50.
E-mail client
An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent , is a computer program used to manage a user's email.The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal...
developed by the Japanese company RimArts from Matsudo City, Chiba
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region and the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City.- History :Chiba Prefecture was established on June 15, 1873 with the merger of Kisarazu Prefecture and Inba Prefecture...
. In the early 2000s, it had received attention in East Asia due to good support for CJKV characters. It supports multiple accounts using the standard POP3/SMTP or IMAP protocols, with or without SSL, including the APOP
Apop
APop may refer to:*Apoptygma Berzerk a Norwegian electronica band*APOP *Apop Records is an independent record label based in Houston, Texas*APOP Kinyras Peyias FC a Cypriot football club...
security feature, and supports PGP
Pretty Good Privacy
Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...
encryption. It also has support for large number of plugins; one such plug-in offers Hotmail
Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...
access, another offers Usenet
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
newsgroups access.
Version 2.05 of the program was included in two 2004 round-up reviews in German magazines. PC Professionell (the German counterpart of PC Pro
PC Pro
PC Pro is one of several computer magazines published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. PC Pro also licenses individual articles for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages...
) ranked it 11th out of 14 email clients tested. PC Direkt found it "insecure", and that it imitates Outlook design, but remarked that it can send voice messages.
A buffer overflow vulnerability is known to affect all version of Becky! before 2.50.