Best email client to use?

[exodus454]

Whats the best email client to use in terms of user-friendlyness and speed?


I've been using Thunderbird, but I'm not impressed with the time it takes to start up (seems kinda sluggish to me). Is Outlook/OE a better way to go, and are there any other good ones out there that I'm not yet aware of?

Thanks

 

[Jeff7]

Search can be your friend.


Personally, I like Eudora.

 

[IamDavid]

OE is best.. I use outlook but it is SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW..

 

[Evander]

here's a list of freebies:
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/emc.html

personally I use Tbird. for my low end laptop, I'm thinking of switching to Pegasus Mail, seems feature rich and very low sys req:
Pegasus Mail for Windows, 32-bit version - system requirements

* Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP (Home or Professional)
* 5MB disk space, plus whatever is required for mail storage
* 4MB RAM above minimum system requirements.

 

[John]

Outlook 2003 loads in a fraction of a second, and my .pst is roughly 330MB.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: John
Outlook 2003 loads in a fraction of a second

Yep, and Outlook 2k3 is the best email client that I have ever used :thumbsup:

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: John
Outlook 2003 loads in a fraction of a second, and my .pst is roughly 1500MB.

Updated to reflect personal experience.

 

[Auric]

I tried TB on an older machine and with a Eudora database imported it was slower than the old version of Eudora.

 

[Nothinman]

mutt

 

[secretanchitman]

Mozilla Thunderbird is very nice, but Outlook 2k3 is damn good as well.