PC eMail client

[CED]

After years using Mac's I'm having to move to a windows PC ...... what is a good desktop eMail client that plays nice with FASTMAIL ?

[somdcomputerguy]

Mozilla Thunderbird - https://mozilla.org/thunderbird

- Bruce

http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/EmailClients

[downthemall]

Why do you write "eMail"? It's disturbing

Thunderbird is your best bet.

[kijinbear]

Originally Posted by downthemall

Why do you write "eMail"? It's disturbing

To be fair, there is a Windows email client called "eM Client"

There's also Postbox, but AFAIK both "eM Client" and Postbox are based on Thunderbird.

[EricG]

Originally Posted by somdcomputerguy

http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/EmailClients

Great opportunity for someone to fix this. Plenty of those are not supported. It seems to predate WinVista (2006) as there is no Windows (Live) Mail.

Windows Live Mail is recommended unless you hate the Ribbon. It's like mini-Outlook. Windows 8.1 has a built-in Metro/Modern app with fewer features.

[eliodeo]

using eM Client. It works good also with the new Calendar feature, as it supports autodiscover

[bwat47]

Originally Posted by eliodeo

using eM Client. It works good also with the new Calendar feature, as it supports autodiscover

I've been using this one as well, its excellent. Basically like a lightweight/cheaper outlook. Works great with my fastmail imap, and the my work's exchange.

[bwat47]

Originally Posted by kijinbear

To be fair, there is a Windows email client called "eM Client"

There's also Postbox, but AFAIK both "eM Client" and Postbox are based on Thunderbird.

afaik em client isn't based on thunderbird, its programmed with .NET; but postbox is indeed thunderbird based (but unfortunately postbox is based on a reaaaalllyyy old version of thunderbird which results in it being kind of buggy/sluggish. the interface is really nice though)

[north]

Originally Posted by CED

After years using Mac's I'm having to move to a windows PC ...... what is a good desktop eMail client that plays nice with FASTMAIL ?

TheBat!

www.ritlabs.com

Professional client for professionals.

[ulmus]

Just curious... nowadays, why do I need an email client? I think, the good notifier is the best solution

[EricG]

Originally Posted by ulmus

Just curious... nowadays, why do I need an email client? I think, the good notifier is the best solution

My phone notifies me. If message is large, fire up web mail.

Desktop email with offline caching is great for backing up. I fire up Win Live Mail once a week. Gmail is configured to download only All label. Each account has individual emails (EML) files in their folders (in case you need to upload them to new account).

[EricG]

I looked at eM client. I don't like mail apps that don't document the protocols they support. POP3 and IMAP don't implement all those features.

Everyone that supports Google services seem to use the undocumented web APIs. How do they connect to Exchange, there's EAS and OWS, maybe others?

[downthemall]

Originally Posted by north

TheBat!

www.ritlabs.com

Professional client for professionals.

Yeah, the most cool but unstable email client in the world. I can't bear it for one day.

[bwat47]

Originally Posted by EricG

I looked at eM client. I don't like mail apps that don't document the protocols they support. POP3 and IMAP don't implement all those features.

Everyone that supports Google services seem to use the undocumented web APIs. How do they connect to Exchange, there's EAS and OWS, maybe others?

They use EWS (exchange web services) for exchange. It should work for any exchange server that uses exchange 2010 or newer and supports autodiscover. The one thing it lacks at the moment is a proper 'manual' exchange setup, but they said in their forums that they will be adding that.

And their IMAP works perfectly as far as I can tell, I've been using it with fastmail for a while now. I am pretty sure they aren't doing anything ridiculous like trying to use google's non-standard IMAP with a regular IMAP account. They differentiate clearly between gmail and regular IMAP in the account setup.

And for the calendar/contacts stuff they do support standard Caldav/Carddav as well as the google stuff (it differentiates standard caldav/carddav from the google stuff clearly in the account setup too). I've added the beta fastmail caldav server to it and it works fine so far.

[north]

Originally Posted by downthemall

Yeah, the most cool [...] email client in the world. [...]

For me TheBat! works since 15 years with ~10 emailaccounts and ~56000 mails.