Mailclient choice

[Bob Adkins]

What do you mean by good? What's good for me may be totally useless for you.

That's always true. The OP was asking for our recommendations. You're always
better off going by recommendations than throwing darts.

Bob

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[Bob Adkins]

someone here can help you with it. If you have been using OE for a while
you will be dissapointed with other e-mail clients you try.

You need to try FoxMail. It's solid and reliable, yet it can be cutesy like
OE (if you want cute).

Bob

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[Christopher Jahn]

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Is there a free mailclient that is really a good choice?

What do you mean by good? What's good for me may be
totally useless for you. I use Eudora and it can be run
in Light (free with reduced functions) mode:

http://www.eudora.com/download/

Why have you choosed that prior to Thunderbird and others?

Because I have been using Eudora before Thunderbird was
even a glint in the programmer's eye. I'm not sure exactly
how long but I think it must be close to 15 years now! It's
a simple program with an easy to understand user interface
that does one thing and does it reasonably well.

http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html

THe problem with Eudora is that it's UI is farily non-
intuitive. It's difficult to find things, and even the error
messages are obtuse. Worst email client I ever used.

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Christopher Jahn
:-(

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[Christopher Jahn]

But Thunderbird doesn't enable you to access Hotmail as far
as I know?

Ed

Outside of Outlook/OE, I don't know of any client that does.

That's why there's Hotmail POPper or Hot2POP.

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Christopher Jahn
:-(

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There is no heavier burden than a great potential.

 

[Ed]

And it came to pass that Ed wrote:




Outside of Outlook/OE, I don't know of any client that does.

That's why there's Hotmail POPper or Hot2POP.

So, does that mean that I will always have to have two clients e.g.
Thunderbird (to read my tiscali mail) and OE (to read my Hotmail)?

Ed

 

[Ed]

You need to try FoxMail. It's solid and reliable, yet it can be cutesy like
OE (if you want cute).

Bob

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What are the fundamental differences between Foxmail and Thunderbird?

Ed

 

[null]

So, does that mean that I will always have to have two clients e.g.
Thunderbird (to read my tiscali mail) and OE (to read my Hotmail)?

Why would you need OE? Hotmail is a web email service for which you
can use your browser.


Art
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[bambam]

So, does that mean that I will always have to have two clients e.g.
Thunderbird (to read my tiscali mail) and OE (to read my Hotmail)?

I had a similar dilemma recently. In the end it was easier to dump
Hotmail and use another alternate email address. There are heaps of
others-

http://www.emailaddresses.com/

http://www.fepg.net/

 

[Christopher Jahn]

So, does that mean that I will always have to have two
clients e.g. Thunderbird (to read my tiscali mail) and OE
(to read my Hotmail)?

No. Read what I wrote.


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conservatives think they're entitled to everything they've
stolen.

 

[Christopher Jahn]

What are the fundamental differences between Foxmail and
Thunderbird?

They are different programs, using different code bases and
different User Interfaces.

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Liberals don't believe they deserve anything they own;
conservatives think they're entitled to everything they've
stolen.

 

[Morgan Ohlson]

They are different programs, using different code bases and
different User Interfaces.

I guess he means conserning features... and that's interesting.

I like a small client, but it should handle a cople of mailboxes and
attachments!

Basicly the same as OE that is.... Which should be my best choice?


Morgan O.

 

[Bob Adkins]

What are the fundamental differences between Foxmail and Thunderbird?

Functionally, not much. T-Bird is a lot bigger, and I think both FoxMail and
T-Bird are way too fat.

Here are some links to user reviews on Betanews.com. (Since the complaints
about Foxmail being in Chinese, the true English version was released.)

T-Bird= http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1057948436

FoxMail= http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1027468567



Bob

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[Bob Adkins]

Outside of Outlook/OE, I don't know of any client that does.

That's why there's Hotmail POPper or Hot2POP.

Foxmail handles Hotmail.

Bob

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[badgolferman]

I guess he means conserning features... and that's interesting.

I like a small client, but it should handle a cople of mailboxes and
attachments!

Basicly the same as OE that is.... Which should be my best choice?


Morgan O.

Well,
What did you decide on? My offer is still open to help configure OE to
what you want it to do or not to do. Another good resource for OE is
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

[posted and mailed]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 16:55:54 GMT, Fuzzy Logic wrote:

[posted and mailed]


Is there a free mailclient that is really a good choice?

What do you mean by good? What's good for me may be
totally useless for you. I use Eudora and it can be run
in Light (free with reduced functions) mode:

http://www.eudora.com/download/

Why have you choosed that prior to Thunderbird and others?

Because I have been using Eudora before Thunderbird was
even a glint in the programmer's eye. I'm not sure exactly
how long but I think it must be close to 15 years now! It's
a simple program with an easy to understand user interface
that does one thing and does it reasonably well.

http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html

THe problem with Eudora is that it's UI is farily non-
intuitive. It's difficult to find things, and even the error
messages are obtuse. Worst email client I ever used.

What's intuitive will depend a lot to what you are used to. I find it very
easy to navigate and customize. If you are used to another email client then
it may take some adjusting. There will always be a learning curve when you
switch applications.

PS what errors messages? I can't recall seeing one for a very long time.

 

[Franky]

THe problem with Eudora is that it's UI is farily non-
intuitive. It's difficult to find things, and even the error
messages are obtuse. Worst email client I ever used.

I find Eudora's UI just fine but as your mailboxes grow then it
seems to need more and more resources. Also I get the feeling that
the owner's of Eudora, Qualcomm, are not really interested in
keeping it up to date.

However, I REALLY do like its filtering capabilities and its
multiple accounts (which it calls "personalities" or "personas").

If other emailers could do those two things as well as Eudora then
maybe I would go and use them instead.

Franky



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[Franky]

What do you mean by good? What's good for me may be totally
useless for you. I use Eudora and it can be run in Light (free
with reduced functions) mode:

http://www.eudora.com/download/

I shouldn't really say this but why not just pick up a password and
account name from the Net and get the extra functions too?

 

[Christopher Jahn]

I find Eudora's UI just fine but as your mailboxes grow
then it seems to need more and more resources. Also I get
the feeling that the owner's of Eudora, Qualcomm, are not
really interested in keeping it up to date.

However, I REALLY do like its filtering capabilities and
its multiple accounts (which it calls "personalities" or
"personas").

If other emailers could do those two things as well as
Eudora then maybe I would go and use them instead.

Frankly, I find Mozilla's filters to work just fine, the
multiple accounts work just as well. As for personas, I use
those in News, and Xnews does it better than Eudora.

Eudora has a confusing UI and error messages even more
worthless than Windows'.



--
Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

'I was in jail somewhere else.'|No-Show Accused

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

I shouldn't really say this but why not just pick up a password and
account name from the Net and get the extra functions too?

Why not rob a bank and go on a nice holiday...

 

[Andrew Price]

Eudora has a confusing UI

Tell us how it's confused you.

PS - it's considered bad manners to set a "follow-up" without saying
so in the body of your posting.