What is the best email client ?

What is the best email client ?

Here is I see the email clients:
Outlook(not free, microsoft product!!!)
Eudora (nice but not free. Can use it in spondor mode)

Thunderbird (Free, widely used)
Pegasus mail (Free, I could not find it user friendly)

Considering that I don't want to buy an email client and want max secured features, what you all suggest ?

Uhm, what about Opera's built-in news and e-mail client?

I was looking for stand alone client.

You can choose your Default Email Client via the windows settings.
I chose Opera's M2 as mine & if I choose to send an Email from any program Opera's Email opens up.
This is as stand alone as any email program gets.

Regards,
Glenn.

I love opera browser but I am not interested in its built in mail client at all.(No logic, does not like its mail). Thats why I was asking you all if you could suggest which other thing would be better?

By the way, I forgot to put Incredimail in the list too.

Personally I use Outlook, but thats more to do with familiarity and personal preference. I would say go for one of the free ones if you are unsure, that way you won't be paying for something your unsure about.

Dava

I like Mail, although you'd probably need to invest in some new hardware to run that though

What about Outlook Express, that is free? OE and Thunderbird are about the best I think.

I ways see whenever any virus,worm etc comes up, those first attack any MS product like outlook/express whatever. So, I was trying to avoid MS.
Importing from others in Opera mail did not look nice for me and overall did not like it.
From the posts above it looks like Thunderbird might be the choice as free and reasonable features. Can you tell what are the cons of using this mozilla thing? I don't use firefox and so I don't know about their product problems much.

I now use Outlook (not Outlook express). It came with Microsoft Office.

I've found they improved it a lot the last year. Junk mail filtering works very well. I get 50 junk mails a day and about one gets through every two days. Also, there are options to ensure privacy, such as setting to not downloading graphics by default or setting different archive policies by folder. Rules and alerts are also nice.

The main problem with Outlook is that you need to go through a lot of screens in prefereneces to learn about all the options.

They've been trying hard to close up the virus/worm issue. But for that I really depend on other programs to protect me: NOD, Ewido and Regdefend.

I like Thunderbird, it's logical, let's you send and read in HTML, permits easy storage, has a number of nice skins and extensions. All in all, a nice, free, stand-alone e:mail program. And with a button from

http://nontroppo.org/tools/buttonmaker/

you can have on your Opera browser, the button to open Thunderbird mail.

It's all very convenient, and thus works great with the Opera browser.

I tried Opera's M2 program for a number of months, and it had too many problems for me to continue working with it.

Finally, I believe Thunderbird is much more secure that Outlook Express.

Originally posted by lem729:

I like Thunderbird, it's logical, let's you send and read in HTML, permits easy storage, has a number of nice skins and extensions. All in all, a nice, free, stand-alone e:mail program. And with a button from

http://nontroppo.org/tools/buttonmaker/

you can have on your Opera browser, the button to open Thunderbird mail.

It's all very convenient, and thus works great with the Opera browser.

I tried Opera's M2 program for a number of months, and it had too many problems for me to continue working with it.

Finally, I believe Thunderbird is much more secure that Outlook Express.

Sounds great that Thunderbird works. I think it is even more cool with calendar extension.Thanks for your recommendation.

I used Opera's mail client when I had to use Windows. When I started using MacOS X there was no Opera with built-in email so I used Apple Mail. On any other UNIXish OS I stick to Sylpheed.

Originally posted by Macallan:

I used Opera's mail client when I had to use Windows. When I started using MacOS X there was no Opera with built-in email so I used Apple Mail. On any other UNIXish OS I stick to Sylpheed.

Sylpheed !! i first heard of it. Looks like it worth a try!

To others, M2 is a little poor but I use it every day.

Will the e-mail client in Opera 9 have a calender and task-list similar to Outlook? (Forgive my ignorance, but it may have these already in Opera 8!). If so, this maybe a factor in me considering using Opera mail in the future.

Dava

Considering stand-alone email, features, calendar and more scope of continuous improvement, I am settling down with Thunderbird for now.

From my previous discussion in opera community, i feel that majority of folks here don't like the idea of stand-alone email client from opera. So, no hope in that line. Some times minority ideas are not bad, thats what I could prove to all in other threads.Anyway, thats fine with me.

Thanks.

In corporation I use IBM Notes to send and receive mail with colleagues.
but in my free time,I have never used E_mail.

In corporation I use IBM Notes to send and receive mail with colleagues.
but in my free time,I have never used E_mail.

Though non-free - I'd recommend the Bat! - secure, feature-rich e-mail client from RitLabs.

(I use the Bat! PRO v3 with eToken to have "on the fly" encryption)

I am a Die-Hard Thunderbird user. But, I have to admit it has one flaw that 'can' be annoying. *I* use it quite happily. My Wife tried, but on her machine, with her friends...who do a lot of forwarding of *.eml to ech other, we found T'Bird cannot 'un-peel' the .eml layers, to get to the Original with the Little Kid pictures, etc. So *she* went back to O.E..... which DOES sequencially open those .eml attachments of hers.

Thunderbird is the best free e-mail client but... as '05-GTO sayd it have some unfunctional things.

To solve these problems i use Thunderbird AND Outlook Express. First i download e-mail with Thunderbird (leaving them on web server) and then i redownload e-mail with Outlook Express (erasing them from web server). So i can read e-mail with Thunderbird (without security problems) and then write or read some particular e-mail with Outlook Express (reading in off-line mode to prevent bad e-mail danger).

I suggest you to use an antivirus as AVG7 free that scan e-mail in/outgoing.

Gmail is very good for you
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I also use Becky the Bat! Becky work best with my favorite spam filter spamweed, Becky is feature rich, though it's not very pretty. I have been using it for more than 3 years, still my top choice.

I am personally using Outlook 2003 (not Express) because it's the only one talking to my pda without any problem.

I still like Thunderbird, but I have the annoying feeling that they will never support data exchange between my PC & my PDA like Outlook does, including all contacts, attached files (if I demand this), all items in my diary and my to-do-lists. I'm familiar with it and I like it.

In my office we've got some Linux-based Thunderbird - sometimes I see the crashmanager more then 10 times a day, and I think that's enough. I need a reliable, stable software which supports me on doing my job efficient. Don't know if that will ever be available on Suse 10 ... :-/

I like Microsoft Entourage, but I switch between Entourage and Mail depending on what computer I'm on.
When using Windows I usually find myself using Thunderbird, and kmail in Linux.
On my phone I use the Symbian s60 built-in mail-application.

I haven't used it (I'm ok with Gmail) but maybe have a look at i.Scribe http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php
It's small (826K zipped) and comes with a calendar. No install needed.

I'm ok with hotmail

Eudora - fastest and the best. Sponsored mode isn't bad.

Thunderbird is my ultimate email client.

I used both Eudora and Outlook Express for years, and was never happy with either since I came to Windows from the Amiga, which had the perfect email client for its time, called Yam. Thunderbird is better than Yam.

Reason I like it is the high level of configuration, the fact that it is a separate client so you have choice (hated it when it was part of Mozilla's suite) and it just works the way I expect it.

I use Foxmail and the user interface is also very good. You can download the english version from http://www.foxmail.com.cn

I use web base from Gmail.

I'm so tired with Mozilla and its extension, A lot.

We use Lotus Notes at work........It sucks.

I use M2 or pine.

DarkClarity - do you liked Yam? Then use Sylpheed - similar to Yam - every mail in separate file.

Thunderbird have no very important option - can't separate attach and e-mails when receiving and every time add attach to the outbox (I prefer getting attach while sending). Maybe someone like that, but I want to keep all my e-mails and have small mailboxes.

Eudora rules.

Originally posted by operafan2006:

Originally posted by Macallan:

I used Opera's mail client when I had to use Windows. When I started using MacOS X there was no Opera with built-in email so I used Apple Mail. On any other UNIXish OS I stick to Sylpheed.

Sylpheed !! i first heard of it. Looks like it worth a try!

It might be worth the effort to look at Sylpheed-Claws instead of the original Sylpheed. I've used Sylpheed quite a lot, having the mail files on a fileserver, and accessing the mail from both a Linux and a Windows workstation, both with Sylpheed. The storage format of Sylpheed is standard (I believe RFC-822 compliant). No dedicated storage or whatsoever (like .PST files with Outlook). Even grep works fine on the Sylpheed mail files :-) Importing them into virtually anything does work as well. I don't know about the storage format of Opera Mail.

I have tried many and i have zero'ed in on M2 and Thunderbird.

I use M2 for my job work. It works flawlessly and its so easy to manage.

Thunderbird for personal use as i have to use HTML/RTF.

I used Thunderbird for about a year, then i recently tried M2, and the one thing that made me switch was the fast searching. And by fast i mean instant. This is something that lacks in Thunderbird.

Opera indexes every mail by words so searching for keywords immediately displays all the results. This is very useful when you have 5000 mails and just want to find something that someone sent you 3 months ago.

Otherwise, thunderbird is a very good client that also has some features that M2 lacks. (like HTML editing and deleting messages from server and various extensions)

But speed and ease of use is what kept me on M2.

I think Outlook Express is the best.

I tried M2 and wasn't so keen on it. I'm going to have to go with the majority and say Thunderbird. It's extensible just like the other Mozilla products and does everything I need.

In Linux I prefer KMail to Thunderbird, there are some more slight tweaks that you can do in KMail that I've never found in Thunderbird.

I've tended to stay away from Outlook Express as it's the default (and thereofre most attacked) e-mail client (I got my PC in the dark days of 2001 when Microsoft products tended to be wide open to all kinds of horrible things)

Thunderbird is a big, slow bloated bastard that bascially loads almost a complete Mozilla, which is not needed to check email. I use kmail, M2 and Sylpheed-Claws

I currently use Thunderbird on Windows and KMail on Linux, and I'm happy with both, except for a few minor issues:

• Thunderbird currently can't import an individual email message (.eml), or extract an rfc822-attached message. (In both cases you can read it, save it to another file, etc., but you can't copy it to a folder as a separate message.) Fortunately this is on the table for future releases.
  
• KMail makes you jump through more hoops in the event that you decide that you really do want to view the HTML portion of a multipart/alternative message
  

I also used Eudora for a long time, and can vouch for it. I only dropped it for two reasons, neither of which is likely to affect many people: First, I do a lot of work with spam filters where I need access to the original form of the message, and Eudora preprocesses the heck out of messages when it receives them. Second, at the time Eudora wouldn't let you use a different username+password for SMTP-AUTH than for POP (maybe it does now).

Originally posted by Kelson:

I currently use Thunderbird on Windows and KMail on Linux, and I'm happy with both, except for a few minor issues:

• Thunderbird currently can't import an individual email message (.eml), or extract an rfc822-attached message. (In both cases you can read it, save it to another file, etc., but you can't copy it to a folder as a separate message.) Fortunately this is on the table for future releases.
  
• KMail makes you jump through more hoops in the event that you decide that you really do want to view the HTML portion of a multipart/alternative message
  

I also used Eudora for a long time, and can vouch for it. I only dropped it for two reasons, neither of which is likely to affect many people: First, I do a lot of work with spam filters where I need access to the original form of the message, and Eudora preprocesses the heck out of messages when it receives them. Second, at the time Eudora wouldn't let you use a different username+password for SMTP-AUTH than for POP (maybe it does now).

you can use different personalities in eudora and set one of them as smtp and the other as pop mail as you wish. I do it that way. check my work emails, but smtp is my dsl provider.

i use gmail i find it god for all either u r beginner or expert easuy to handle and operate
and faster than many email client

Thunderbird - its functional and better than entourage/outlook by far

I personally use Thunderbird. Most of the email accounts I have disabled free POP3 access but there's a neat extension that's a workaround that scrapes the screen apparantly and downloads it to Thunderbird.

So it helps me in checking my various email accounts. (I have them setup for various reasons, a spam/forum signup, a online friend one, a real friend one, a professional one, my psych website one, etc..)

To me, the best email client is Becky! Internet Mail.
And that's after having used TheBat!, Pegasus, Thunderbird and Opera M2.

Yes, it costs $40 for Becky! but the upgrades are free.
Why Becky! ? It's very light and has good filtering manager. And you can set many email accounts with only one mailbox easily.

Try it to find out other features.

Good news! Eudora will be open source from early 2007.
Great email client and even better with open source journey.

Still looks like some connection with mozilla!

I have started using Opera's built-in e-mail client

I am impressed so far, though I will need to sit down and look at the finer details to get it working just as I like it. I will continue using Outlook at work because of familiarity and the calender capabilities.

Dava

Originally posted by uzzerek:

Thunderbird have no very important option - can't separate attach and e-mails when receiving and every time add attach to the outbox (I prefer getting attach while sending). Maybe someone like that, but I want to keep all my e-mails and have small mailboxes.

It has the option of deleting attachments now, try the current version.

At work: Outlook 2003 (don't really have a choice here). For private e-mail: inbox.com's webmail although I'll probably start using M2 again once the problem with Opera freezing whilst downloading mail is fixed.