CorelCENTRAL 8 Mailbox, part of the Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 released in 1997, was Corel’s all-in-one hub for email, contacts, and scheduling back when everyone was juggling dial-up connections and early office PCs. It wasn’t flashy, but it let you manage multiple email accounts, organize messages into folders, and sync up with CorelCENTRAL’s calendar and address book—basically trying to be Outlook before Outlook owned the space. Updates through the late ’90s tweaked stability and integration with WordPerfect, but by the early 2000s, it quietly disappeared as Microsoft Office took over. If you remember its gray, utilitarian interface, you were probably the unofficial IT person in your office or the kid who actually read the PC setup manuals.