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12-09-2012, 10:05 AM
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Recommend an Email Client
Running Windows Live Mail 2012 on Windows 7. I run a number of email accounts through WLM. One Comcast, one Gmail, and several domain based email accounts. Not too pleased with WLM. I'm wondering what programs some of the gurus who hang out here might want to share? Thank you.
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12-09-2012, 10:11 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Thunderbird. Been using it for years.
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12-09-2012, 10:50 AM
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Didn't Mozilla stop the development of Thunderbird recently?
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12-09-2012, 11:17 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by country2
Didn't Mozilla stop the development of Thunderbird recently?
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Sort of. They're calling it feature complete, and only doing security fixes. That's a reasonable approach imo. There isn't much you can add to it. It receives mail and sends mail, there's little it's lacking.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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12-09-2012, 11:33 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Carbo
Running Windows Live Mail 2012 on Windows 7. I run a number of email accounts through WLM. One Comcast, one Gmail, and several domain based email accounts. Not too pleased with WLM. I'm wondering what programs some of the gurus who hang out here might want to share? Thank you.
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In general you need to specify how you want to use email and what other services you need. Thunderbird generally doesn't cut it in today's world because it only offers email and not integrated contacts, calendaring, tasks, etc.. But if that is all you need it may be fine for you.
Using gmail with email clients (rather than through web interface) may be problematic because of feature incompatibilities. For example gmail does not support folders and subfolders, so what happens if you create a subfolder in a client?
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12-09-2012, 11:36 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CSMR
In general you need to specify how you want to use email and what other services you need. Thunderbird generally doesn't cut it in today's world because it only offers email and not integrated contacts, calendaring, tasks, etc.. But if that is all you need it may be fine for you.
Using gmail with email clients (rather than through web interface) may be problematic because of feature incompatibilities. For example gmail does not support folders and subfolders, so what happens if you create a subfolder in a client?
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Gmail supports folders/sub-folders. For calendaring there's the Lightning extension for Tbird. Dunno about integrated contacts. That isn't something I use.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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12-09-2012, 11:53 AM
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Location: Norway
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Thunderbird is a great piece of software. I use Outlook 2010 now seeing as i got it through work, but prior to that Thunderbird was my client of choice.
Also Gmail is a good choice if you don't mind everything else that comes along with using gmail.
I've also heard good things about outlook.com as a netbased email client.
Last edited by smakme7757; 12-09-2012 at 11:55 AM.
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12-09-2012, 12:50 PM
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Diamond Member
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I like outlook.com. The little I've used it has always left me with a favorable impression. I'd be happy to use it full time if it supported IMAP, which it doesn't at this time.
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12-09-2012, 03:00 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Canada
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Thunderbird is excellent. It still seems to be getting non-security updates (like GUI facelifts)
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12-09-2012, 07:16 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
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Windows Live Mail is much better than Thunderbird imo. Very clean, threaded, and no bugs!  It even has a good RSS feed, if you do that thing.
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12-09-2012, 09:46 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: USA left coast
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Thunderbird, with Lightning extension
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12-09-2012, 10:42 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Outlook.
Or does it need to be free?
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12-09-2012, 10:46 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
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Tried everything under the sun for Windows, including Thunderbird, and nothing really felt right.
Then I tried Postbox. It was exactly what I was looking for, and it plays properly with Gmail as well. It even integrates with DropBox, allowing me to seamlessly link large files instead of attaching them. Definitely worth checking out: http://www.postbox-inc.com/
Outlook is also excellent, but not cheap.
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12-09-2012, 10:48 PM
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Grand Nagus
Join Date: Feb 2000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CA19100
Tried everything under the sun for Windows, including Thunderbird, and nothing really felt right.
Then I tried Postbox. It was exactly what I was looking for, and it plays properly with Gmail as well. It even integrates with DropBox, allowing me to seamlessly link large files instead of attaching them. Definitely worth checking out: http://www.postbox-inc.com/
Outlook is also excellent, but not cheap. |
Thanks for the recommendation, so far looks promising.
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12-10-2012, 12:04 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: London, Ontario Canada
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I use Postbox Express. That is the free client. It works great and it set up my gmail account automatically.
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12-10-2012, 12:15 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Closet
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BatMail may be a good fit for you, not so for me. I get my messages with T'bird Portable.
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12-10-2012, 12:51 PM
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
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love Thunderbird myself w/ Lightning calendar addon.
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12-11-2012, 10:44 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: SLC, Utah
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I've used Thunderbird for many years, but do not like the recent UI changes. The title bar changes make it behave differently from almost every other Windows application -- no more double-click at left of title bar to close app, for example. And moving tabs and some other command buttons into the title bar might initially seem "cool", but it really isn't. Usability and consistency is more important than "cool", especially in an email application.
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