Favourite Email Client

ankupan · 29 Aug 2006, 09:09 PM

Hi,

Give vote to your favourite Email Client

registered_user · 29 Aug 2006, 11:12 PM

The lack of OS X's Mail application seems to be kind of glaring here. Ditto for Entourage. Considering the high number of IMAP users on this forum (and the higher percentage of Mac users among IMAP users due primarily to the better availability of halfway decent IMAP clients) it just seems that those options are sorely lacking.

hellie · 30 Aug 2006, 12:00 AM

I am very interested to know what "the others" email clients are?

Helen

marc_otten · 30 Aug 2006, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hellie
I am very interested to know what "the others" email clients are?

Helen

Me too! Is a webmail client also considered an emailclient? If not, I made a false vote for "the others..."

--Marc

David · 30 Aug 2006, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hellie
I am very interested to know what "the others" email clients are?

Helen

Pine, Mutt, Mailsmith, Evolution, to name a few

hellie · 30 Aug 2006, 12:35 AM

I have a problem with this poll I know what I absolutely hate and thats Outlook and Outlook Express.

However my current favourite is Thunderbird largely due the RSS feeds it can manage as well as the fact you can also add "inforss" as an extension. But thats just at the moment, I am working from home and really need to know whats going on the "npfit" the UK's biggests civilian IT project for the NHS in the UK. Hence I really need my RSS feeds at the moment.

However I do like The Bat, Pegasus and Mulberry for different things.

I actually like and use all 4. I have them all installedon my PC and laptop. So Thunderbirds my favourite at the moment but this will no doubt change when I am no longer reliant on my RSS feeds!!!

The other advantage to Thunderbird is that it intergate so well with Firefox. I absolutely love the Firefox browser and its extensions. However I do need start an IT blog so I should really also play with The Flock as it based on Geeko rendering engine. You can also add extensions to it. I am wondering how it deals with RSS feeds?

Hence if I like The Flock it may change my choice of favourite email client.

I have tried Opera and the Opera email client and do occassionally use it. Its useful to have but installed but not my favourite either a browser or email client .

I prefer a separate email client and browser but I would want them to interelate well together and compliment each other.

Another factor is I never ever use POP only IMAP as I have Fastmail, Runbox and Tuffmail as my email accounts hence I need a client that handles IMAP well.

Sorry I have gone slightly off topic but to me this are email clients and browsers are interelated.

Helen

chrisretusn · 30 Aug 2006, 02:03 AM

I picked two, PocoMail and Others....

As for those others. Elm and Sylpheed-Claws in Unix/Linux and PMMail in OS/2.

I have used others, Foxmail is one I liked. Back in the WWG days I used Pegasus at work, later we migrated Outlook.

Fenman · 30 Aug 2006, 02:03 AM

Mulberry.

I tried using The Bat with IMAP but got loads of problems - it wasn't obvious whether my outgoing mail had been sent or not and it was using bandwth like it had gone out of fashion. Maybe I missed something in the setup.

If The Bat would do what it *should*do without problems I think it would take over from Mulberry.

Berenburger · 30 Aug 2006, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by marc_otten
Me too! Is a webmail client also considered an emailclient? If not, I made a false vote for "the others..."

--Marc

Since I have a (direct) cable connection to the Internet I nearly use no local client anymore.

Favourite is Fastmail's 'MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface'.
Another: Google's GMail, SquirrelMail, IMP. In that order.

rmns2bseen · 30 Aug 2006, 08:11 AM

Thunderbird and/or SeaMonkey Mail/Mozilla Mail (they're pretty much the same, really). Stable, cross-platform, handles IMAP well, easy to use. I don't need a lot of buzzers and bells.

pyedka · 30 Aug 2006, 10:33 AM

I use SeaMonkey mail so I voted for Thunderbird.

theog · 30 Aug 2006, 12:05 PM

Outlook express most of the time....

Outlook for business reasons...

Thunderbird at times, although less now that I'm testing outlook 2007.

Outlook 2007 blows everything else out the water, and it is still in beta.

Olfrygt · 30 Aug 2006, 07:44 PM

My favourite is PIMMY .... simple and faster than any.
Version 3.5 is free.
http://www.geminisoft.com/en/pimmy/d...rsion=03.05.00
http://www.geminisoft.com/en/pimmy/d...rsion=03.05.00
The screenshot at the site, is in Italian, but you can get it in English or whatever.

marc_otten · 30 Aug 2006, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Since I have a (direct) cable connection to the Internet I nearly use no local client anymore.

Same here. Since I got ADSL, I'm almost exclusively using the Runbox Mail Manager (RMM) webinterface. I have been playing with other webmail clients, but none of them serves my needs as RMM does.

Horde is also great, allthough a little bloated in my opinion. In the past, I used Mailsnare's VisualOffice which is also very impressive...

--Marc

dantheman · 30 Aug 2006, 09:04 PM

Barca,

-improved but very limited IMAP support ;
-great spam filtering (use a couple of accounts) ;
-quick to start ;
-uses little system ressources ;
-thread view ;
-and mostly because it's easy to back-up/restore.

View Poll Results: Favourite Email Client
MS Outlook Express	11	13.25%
MS Outlook	3	3.61%
Eudora	2	2.41%
Thunderbird	35	42.17%
The Bat	4	4.82%
Pocomail / Barca	4	4.82%
Mulberry	6	7.23%
Pegasus	1	1.20%
Foxmail	3	3.61%
Others.....	28	33.73%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 83. You may not vote on this poll

29 Aug 2006, 09:09 PM	#1
ankupan Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 812	Favourite Email Client Hi, Give vote to your favourite Email Client

30 Aug 2006, 07:44 PM	#13
Olfrygt Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 157	My favourite is PIMMY .... simple and faster than any. Version 3.5 is free. http://www.geminisoft.com/en/pimmy/d...rsion=03.05.00 http://www.geminisoft.com/en/pimmy/d...rsion=03.05.00 The screenshot at the site, is in Italian, but you can get it in English or whatever. Last edited by Olfrygt : 30 Aug 2006 at 07:52 PM.

30 Aug 2006, 09:04 PM	#15
dantheman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hot Springs, AR Posts: 857	Barca Barca, -improved but very limited IMAP support ; -great spam filtering (use a couple of accounts) ; -quick to start ; -uses little system ressources ; -thread view ; -and mostly because it's easy to back-up/restore.

29 Aug 2006, 11:12 PM	#2
registered_user Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 164	The lack of OS X's Mail application seems to be kind of glaring here. Ditto for Entourage. Considering the high number of IMAP users on this forum (and the higher percentage of Mac users among IMAP users due primarily to the better availability of halfway decent IMAP clients) it just seems that those options are sorely lacking.

30 Aug 2006, 12:00 AM	#3
hellie Essential Contributor Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Marlow Bucks Posts: 417	I am very interested to know what "the others" email clients are? Helen

30 Aug 2006, 12:35 AM	#6
hellie Essential Contributor Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Marlow Bucks Posts: 417	I have a problem with this poll I know what I absolutely hate and thats Outlook and Outlook Express. However my current favourite is Thunderbird largely due the RSS feeds it can manage as well as the fact you can also add "inforss" as an extension. But thats just at the moment, I am working from home and really need to know whats going on the "npfit" the UK's biggests civilian IT project for the NHS in the UK. Hence I really need my RSS feeds at the moment. However I do like The Bat, Pegasus and Mulberry for different things. I actually like and use all 4. I have them all installedon my PC and laptop. So Thunderbirds my favourite at the moment but this will no doubt change when I am no longer reliant on my RSS feeds!!! The other advantage to Thunderbird is that it intergate so well with Firefox. I absolutely love the Firefox browser and its extensions. However I do need start an IT blog so I should really also play with The Flock as it based on Geeko rendering engine. You can also add extensions to it. I am wondering how it deals with RSS feeds? Hence if I like The Flock it may change my choice of favourite email client. I have tried Opera and the Opera email client and do occassionally use it. Its useful to have but installed but not my favourite either a browser or email client . I prefer a separate email client and browser but I would want them to interelate well together and compliment each other. Another factor is I never ever use POP only IMAP as I have Fastmail, Runbox and Tuffmail as my email accounts hence I need a client that handles IMAP well. Sorry I have gone slightly off topic but to me this are email clients and browsers are interelated. Helen

30 Aug 2006, 02:03 AM	#7
chrisretusn Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 846	I picked two, PocoMail and Others.... As for those others. Elm and Sylpheed-Claws in Unix/Linux and PMMail in OS/2. I have used others, Foxmail is one I liked. Back in the WWG days I used Pegasus at work, later we migrated Outlook.

30 Aug 2006, 02:03 AM	#8
Fenman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK (East Anglia) Posts: 738	Mulberry. I tried using The Bat with IMAP but got loads of problems - it wasn't obvious whether my outgoing mail had been sent or not and it was using bandwth like it had gone out of fashion. Maybe I missed something in the setup. If The Bat would do what it shoulddo without problems I think it would take over from Mulberry.

30 Aug 2006, 08:11 AM	#10
rmns2bseen Master of the @ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: USA Posts: 1,426	Thunderbird and/or SeaMonkey Mail/Mozilla Mail (they're pretty much the same, really). Stable, cross-platform, handles IMAP well, easy to use. I don't need a lot of buzzers and bells.

30 Aug 2006, 10:33 AM	#11
pyedka Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 737	I use SeaMonkey mail so I voted for Thunderbird.

30 Aug 2006, 12:05 PM	#12
theog = Permanently banned = Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: 1 Microsoft Way Posts: 2,119	Outlook express most of the time.... Outlook for business reasons... Thunderbird at times, although less now that I'm testing outlook 2007. Outlook 2007 blows everything else out the water, and it is still in beta.