email clients? (1 Viewer)

[klh]

which do you use?
The one i use is Office Outlook but i am looking for something i can use with gmail, yahoo, hotmail and my student account.
Right now, office can only be used with hotmail and my student account.
Any suggestions or help?

Thanks

 

[asdf]

I use mozilla thunderbird for unimails, gmail and isp mail. You can also use it for hotmail too but havent tried it.

 

[anti]

gmail now has POP support so you should be able to access it through any email client.

Hotmail and yahoo don't support POP from what I remember unless you pay.. and hotmail can only be checked through MS products :S but they're notoriously insecure.

Try:

Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Eudora: http://www.eudora.com/


I've used both and I only changed to TB because it has excellent threading.

 

[klh]

what is excellent threading?
How would you rate both of them anti?
seems like thunderbird is the g o tho...
Ill try it.

 

[asdf]

Hotmail and yahoo don't support POP from what I remember unless you pay.. and hotmail can only be checked through MS products :S but they're notoriously insecure.

yeh theres a patch somewhere that allows u to use hotmail with tbird...except i was never bothered to try it out.

 

[fatmuscle]

i'm stuck with outlook

easier for management between work/home

 

[MedNez]

Outlook migrating to Thunderbird.

Still use web based for gmail - easier to check, and the stacked replies (especially in many replies in email) are much easier to read.

 

[anti]

excellent threading means that all posts from person a with subject b are threaded (stacked).. gmail doesn't do it quite as well (something to do with case sensitivity between re: and RE:, I think).

I would probably have stuck with Eudora but thunderbird was a new exciting thing to try.. and it integrates better with my browser than Eudora did (from memory) .. also takes less memory

probably eudora is about 7/10 and thunderbird 8.5/10. perfect solution doesn't exist yet. using gmail for all mail (forwarding to my gmail.com address) is also a nice idea, esp if you have a few accounts

 

[withoutaface]

I use thunderbird because I got the shits with outlook signing me out of msn.

 

[anti]

It does? never used outlook.
I use lotus notes :S :S :S at work. It's pretty shocking

 

[redslert]

i used outlook only because i synch my contacts, calendar, notes, tasks, alarms etc with both my mobile phone and pda

 

[jm1234567890]

I use thunderbird because I got the shits with outlook signing me out of msn.

yeah, that is because outlook starts windows messenger automatically.

Thunderbird isn't perfect yet, still some minor random bugs.

 

[MedNez]

I use lotus notes :S :S :S at work.

oh noes!

Try and get them to change, Lotus is evil.

 

[Fosweb]

I love the way google desktop threads all your outlook email... kindof like the way gmail does.

That said: I use outlook 2003, mainly because i just havent been bothered to try something else.

 

[jm1234567890]

I love the way google desktop threads all your outlook email... kindof like the way gmail does.

That said: I use outlook 2003, mainly because i just havent been bothered to try something else.

outlook is ok if you got a fast computer with lots of ram.

google desktop search will definately support thunderbird and firefox in future

 

[fatmuscle]

outlook 2003 is pretty good compared to the prior versions

go the video emails

Lotus Notes... errr. there's that dumb compatibility issue with businesses using Lotus notes and outlook/exchange.
something about sending attachments. Everything must be in 'HTML' or 'Plain text' format in Outlook, so that lotus ppl can receive them. Otherwise they come out at *.dat files.

If you own a laptop which connects to your work, it's probably best to use their own email client. Found it much simpler.

 

[asdf]

outlook seems too bloated for my likings...i've seriously never ever used it before...my first email client was kaufman mail warrior i think.

 

[jm1234567890]

Thunderbird 1.0 RC1 released

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0rc/

not on website yet.

EDIT: not sure if you should get it just yet... mabye wait for some plugin compatibiliy