PRAGUE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 14, 2026--
eM Client, the European developer of an email and productivity application used by millions worldwide, today announced eM Client 11, its most significant release to date.
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Combining advanced AI capabilities, intelligent automation, and highly competitive pricing, eM Client 11 offers African businesses, startups, and professionals a powerful, cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Outlook.
Powerful AI Without Premium Pricing
eM Client 11 introduces an integrated AI Assistant that helps users search, summarize, organize, and manage emails using natural language.
New features include personalized AI writing, context-aware quick replies, automatic task and event detection, AI-powered email rules, and intelligent search.
With Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), organizations can connect compatible AI providers and models of their choice, giving them greater control over AI capabilities, data handling, and costs.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration also enables external AI assistants to securely access relevant email context and perform supported actions, bringing advanced AI workflows into everyday business communication.
Enterprise Productivity at an Affordable Price
For businesses looking to maximize productivity while controlling IT budgets, eM Client combines advanced features with aggressive pricing and flexible licensing options.
Unlike subscription-only alternatives, eM Client offers perpetual licenses alongside subscriptions, allowing organizations to avoid mandatory recurring client licensing fees and better predict long-term software expenses.
Businesses can replace Microsoft Outlook while retaining their existing email infrastructure, potentially reducing licensing costs without expensive migrations or disruption.
This makes eM Client particularly attractive to small and medium-sized businesses, growing startups, educational institutions, and organizations managing tight IT budgets.
Freedom to Choose Your Email Infrastructure
Supporting open standards including IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV, as well as Microsoft Exchange (via EWS or Microsoft Graph) and Google accounts, eM Client allows organizations to choose their email infrastructure independently of their email client.
Whether using Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or independent email hosting providers, businesses can manage their communications through one unified application.
"We believe advanced productivity software should be accessible to businesses of all sizes, not just those with large IT budgets," said Michal Bürger, CEO and Co-founder of eM Client. "With eM Client 11, we're combining powerful AI, enterprise capabilities, and aggressive pricing to give African businesses a practical alternative to Microsoft Outlook — with greater flexibility and control over long-term costs."
More Productivity, Less Complexity
eM Client 11 introduces a Command Palette, message pinning, advanced email automation, redesigned interfaces, and improved calendar functionality.
Additional enhancements include native ARM support and eM Sync, featuring end-to-end encrypted settings synchronization.
Availability
eM Client 11 is available for Windows and Mac, with companion apps for Android and iOS. Free, subscription, and perpetual licensing options are available.
More information: https://www.emclient.com
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eM Client is a European software company developing email and productivity applications used by millions worldwide, combining productivity, interoperability, privacy, and user choice.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV spent a peaceful night in Rome’s Gemelli hospital after doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung and confirmed he has cancer, the Vatican said Wednesday. Experts said further tests are needed to know if the disease has spread and if more treatment is needed.
The surgery showed the 71-year-old pope has the most common type of lung cancer, known as lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin late Tuesday. The revelation — within a few hours of an operation that was announced by Leo himself — offered further evidence that the American pontiff is taking a new approach to communicating about his health.
The Vatican said the surgery lasted approximately 90 minutes and was successful, with no complications.
Doctors were waiting for the results of further tests before deciding on a course of treatment, the Vatican said. The press office pointed to the medical statement’s mention of the “radical” removal of the lobe as an indication that doctors took out all suspect tissue in hopes of removing any lingering traces of the cancer.
The right lung has three sections or lobes while the left has two. After one lobe is removed, the rest of the lung can gradually compensate, especially in otherwise healthy and physically active people. Leo is known to be sporty, with weekly tennis games and swimming.
Experts said some of Leo’s lymph nodes also would have been removed and tested to determine if the cancer had spread. There was no word yet on those test results.
If the cancer has spread, tests will determine what kind of therapy to pursue, said Dr. Stephen Liu, a lung cancer expert at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Options include chemotherapy, a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy or targeted therapy, which involves pills for specific cancers.
Liu, who is not involved in the pope’s care, said adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer, and also has the most favorable prognosis.
“While we know the diagnosis, we now need to know the stage,” Liu said. “We now need to know how big it is, how many spots in the lung are involved. Is it just one nodule, or more than one, and the lymph nodes, are they cancerous?”
Dr. PierCarlo Gentile, head of radiation oncology at the San Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome, said the kind of video-assisted minimally invasive chest surgery the pope underwent could allow him to be back on his feet within 48 to 72 hours. Recovery from the surgery itself takes 15 to 20 days. Post-op complications, including infections, are rare, he said.
In general, the lung can compensate for the loss of the lobe, Gentile said, “but recovery depends on the individual, their age and their breathing capacity before surgery. There will certainly be respiratory rehabilitation, but there is a very good chance of full recovery” of lung capacity.
The American pontiff has offered a rare level of transparency about the first publicly disclosed major health problem of his 17-month papacy. He revealed the discovery of the nodule, or growth, on his lung during his Sunday noon prayer, announcing it to the world on live television almost as an aside at the end of his blessing.
“That was truly a revolution. It was like he was reading a medical bulletin himself,” said Giovanni Maria Vian, a church historian and the former editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
The Vatican has long been secretive about the health of popes and tightly controlled any such information — a practice encapsulated in the popular Italian saying, “ The pope is fine until he’s dead.”
St. John XXIII died in 1963, nearly a year after doctors diagnosed stomach cancer that was kept hidden at the time. St. John Paul II died in 2005 after suffering for years from the obvious effects of Parkinson's disease that the Vatican only confirmed after he died.
Pope Francis seemed more up front about his health problems, giving an Argentine doctor a tell-all interview for a book about his physical and mental health. But in the end Francis, too, tightly controlled the information that was released in his dying months.
Vian, who was part of the Vatican communications team from 2007 to 2018, said the Vatican's obsession with secrecy about the pope's health was due to both practical and cultural considerations. He noted the Vatican is a 2,000-year-old institution that is culturally European — and Europeans tend to be more guarded about health problems than people in the United States.
“In theory, the pope has an absolute power, so you can understand that there are many people who would aspire to that absolute power," he said. Secrecy about a pope's health, therefore "is a legitimate defense of both the pope in question and the institution itself.”
He attributed Leo's decision to reveal his health condition to his American outlook and serenity, and said he hoped it would extend to other aspects of Vatican communications.
That said, Leo didn't share everything he knew Sunday when he announced the existence of the nodule: Tuesday's medical bulletin said doctors had suspected cancer based on tests, a suspicion that was confirmed in surgery.
The Vatican on Monday canceled all Leo’s audiences through Oct. 20. But there was no word on whether he would be able to keep his planned trip to South America next month.
Oncology surgeons often advise patients not to fly for three weeks after surgery — which would give the pope just enough time to make his planned Nov. 6-17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. But whether he can go will depend on his recovery.
The current itinerary for the trip is ambitious and the longest of his papacy to date, calling for Leo to clock just over 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) on a dozen flights and two helicopter rides, and a significant altitude change in Peru.
“If it is stage 1, he can complete these trips. If more treatment is needed, I would likely advise against the trips,” said Liu.
Barry reported from Milan. Associated Press video producer Paolo Santalucia in Rome and Associated Press writer Lauran Neergaard in Washington contributed to this report.
Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
A television light is pointed towards the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Pope Leo XIV is hospitalized after undergoing a surgery, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Medical Director Andrea Cambieri, right, receives Pope Leo XIV as he arrives at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, where he's expected to be operated to remove a lung nodule. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
An image of Pope Leo XIV rests at the base of a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Leo is hospitalized for surgery to remove a lung nodule, in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
