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

[madboyv1]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[psycros]

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.

 

[Ashdude]

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.

 

[3DCGMODELER]

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

 

[tonylukac]

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.

 

[soldier1969]

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.

 

[veLa]

I just use a Yahoo and a Gmail address

 

[TS-56336]

I have Incredimail. Been using it since 2003.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Mantrhax]

Eudora, for ages

 

[Ashdude]

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.

 

[TomSEA]

Plain old g-mail for personal use. And Outlook at work.

 

[gwailo247]

I use web mail, but this did remind me of my very first e-mail account. It was through school, in 1994, so it was all text based, probably unix or something. It was all well and good, except in order to basically advance to the next page, you needed to hit CTRL-F12....which was all well and good...except for the fact that a lot of keyboards back then did not extend to F12, but stopped at F10. Including the keyboard I had at home. So if anyone sent me an e-mail back then that went over 1 page, I had to wait until I got to school to read all of it. Eventually I bought a new keyboard.

 

[Archean]

MS Outlook has been my primary email client for as long as I can remember.

 

[TJGeezer]

I've been using Eudora since it's very earliest days, and I still like it's approach to the task and the way it saved messages using flexible filtering to store messages anywhere you wanted in a directory tree-style mailbox structure. Web mail labels and such aren't the same and the clients that mimic web mail, which is how Thunderbird feels to me, simply don't o the same job. Plus, I'm lazy and don't want to change how I think about email.

So I'm still using Eudora, the OSE version now. However, it hasn't been updated since the end of 2010 and I have a feeling it may not be again - a dodo that forgot to fall over. OSE is only Thunderbird anyway, just Thunderbird macro'd to the gills to look and act like Eudora... if Eudora got drunk last night and so can't help being all sluggish and out of sorts today. Macros are great for some things but, as the main user interface, they can't help being what they are: a cumulative kluge to make one thing seem like another without any sort of actual core transformation. At this point I'm only using it out of habit.

Now I have to try to say "cumulative kluge" ten time fast.

 

[Burty117]

Outlook 2003 was flakey, Outlook 2007 (After SP2) was fairly good but Outlook 2010 has been the best so far for me, I like the changes they've made and it can actually handle a high volume of emails / PST files etc...

Since I work in all exchange enviroments it does pretty well if I'm honest.

 

[Guest]

Ever since I switched to gmail, I've been using webmail. It suits my needs the most, since due to my work I'm not home much and always have to check my mail either on the road or on some location other than home. It's easy to have all your mail online all the time.

Haven't used a mail client in the last 6 to 7 years.

 

[Guest]

I [FONT=Arial]also use Outlook 2010 it's an expensive but fantastic piece of software. I foolishly believed the internet comments about Thunderbird so thought I'd give it a go - it's a toy and a very flaky one compared to Outlook. Don’t believe the ridiculous MS haters who proliferate the web these days there's no comparison.[/FONT]

 

[Guest]

I [FONT=Arial]also use Thunderbird it's a cheap but fantastic piece of software. I foolishly believed the internet comments about Outlook so thought I'd give it a go - it's an expensive toy and a very flaky one compared to Thunderbird. Don’t believe the ridiculous MS brown-nosers who proliferate the web these days there's no comparison.[/FONT]

 

[Guest]

Thunderbird vs Outlook.

Thunderbird is email client only base, Outlook is a complete business class PIM.
Both are good, but saying Thunderbird has better business class "features" compared to Outlook is disingenuous. I've used both, in fact tried to use thunderbird for a year. But I found thunderbird lacking and deficient in areas of customized archiving and delivery/automated response rulesets, and third party extensions and integration.

Plus outlook is more than an email client, it's a business class development platform in and of itself. There are a ton of third party freeware and commercial software for outlook. There are only a handful of thunderbird add-ons:

If you're needs are simple, thunderbird is fine. If you work in a business environment or handle hundreds of emails, outlook is your best friend. And I know, I used to hate outlook, but realized how much more extensible this thing does compared to thunderbird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_add-ons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

 

[Guest]

What's the word? Thunderbird

I've been using Thunderbird for quite a while now and I really like it. It's very solid and has the features I need/use.