Weekend Open Forum: What type of email client do you prefer?

I have two Gmail accounts (one business, one personal) which have served me well for a couple of years.

I use Outlook 2007 with Yahoo IMAP. I love all of Outlook's bells & whistles, I use them all the time. I've tried almost all of the other clients, including Postbox, and I always revert back to Outlook.

I have never seen the need for thunderbird or outlook. I just use the free ones, yahoo, gmail, and aol.

I have 2 email accounts.
My exchange account at work, and I use Hotmail as well because its Microsoft's baby and I know they will keep it running/supported.

opera has a very nice email client built in.

I support multiple identities online so I have waaay too many emails. For myself, I have a personal domain name email, a yahoo email which I still pay for from the old days before gmail ever existed (I should stop this) and Hotmail, which was my first e-mail. I have all three of those being pulled into thunderbird. Having all my emails local and in one place without literally being in one place is very useful for me. Once every couple months I'll go to the web clients of each and clear out the emails since I don't delete them from the servers either.

I've been using Thunderbird for a number of years with my Gmail account. You can set up as many filters as you want, it's reliable, customizable, fast, and free! By adding the Lightning calendar extension, I've got appointments and calendaring that are at least as good as I had when I still worked in an Outlook dominated office.

I have many email addresses. most of the business accounts I try to use Outlook 2010 with IMAP.
None of the our domains has exchange server so outlook gives problem a lot. I have yahoo and gmail also Hotmail too. most of them for spam purposes I used them for online purchases etc. I dont like to use free web mail account for personal because Google and others Data mining Policies.
I have fan of open source software and Thunderbird. But last year I got some problems with Thunderbird imap and small bugs.

Thunderbird, with MinimizeToTray.
They have served me extremely well, for years, with no noticeable problem at all.
And I find its Blogs & News Feeds quite useful, too.

Have used Hotmail since day one and still find it simply superior to all others, including Gmail. Gmail, like Google, will always have the Big Brother element lurking in the background, while Hotmail delivers the goods with no questions asked, no expectations and the only charge a sidebar ad to view.

I really like EM Client. It works with everything..including free Yahoo accounts! It syncs contacts in real time with Gmail and other services. The interface only has two limitations I don't much like: panels can't be moved between the left and right sidebars, and you can't control the sizes of panels (if you have 3 panels on the right bar, for example, the bar is split equally between them...there's no movable dividers and you have scrollbars in the panels that aren't fully visible). Other than that its fantastic. It looks great, supports themes (well, skins really), the toolbar is intuitive and the client is highly flexible. Unfortunately the free version is limited to two accounts and the pro version is (gulp) $50.

I love the Mac's apps. I'm being forced to use Windows to support my gaming habit. But I'm going to be getting an iPad soon enough. Tablets are the future.

I use the email server, I check email from the server level, So I do not load anything on the compter, the safest way..

I lose email at all clients. I used to like Gmail, but its gotten so slow. I like Outlook 2007 best, which I got free at a Microsoft Technet at McCormick Place.

Thunderbird for years now. Its funny how many people dont use one or know how to set one up but have been using pcs for a long time. They still go to the website(yahoo) etc then sign in to check mail, its 2012 folks move up in the world there are easier ways.

I just use a Yahoo and a Gmail address

I have Incredimail. Been using it since 2003.

I use Thunderbird, but only when I want to insert images into the body of an email rather than attach them. I guess I don't get why people get excited about email clients. I worked at a state government operation that used Outlook and I suppose it was OK for intra-office use but I don't need anything like it at home. The only advantage I can see is the ability to work offline. I accomplish that po' boy fashion by saving an email I want to reply to offline to my HD.

Eudora, for ages

No one else knows about Outlook's picture handling? I email photos all the time and I love to insert them into my mail. I can select multiple pictures from the insert menu and I can apply all sorts of effects to them. Usually I just resize them, but I can rotate, apply drop shadows, frames, and all sorts of color re-calibrations. It's like having Photoshop built in and since it's all inside Outlook, everything is very fast. No other email client has those features.

I've tried the jpg resize and compression plugins that come for Thunderbird and they stink.