Email Programs

[Astray]

I'm looking for a good resource-light email program that will be able to print emails once they are recieved.

I'm crrent;y using Columba, though it's based off java, and it can sometimes eat p resources. I've never tried Thunderbird or Outlook...

Any reccomendations? Thanks.

 

[Genx87]

All you need is the client to be able to print emails? Does it require embedded html capability?

I have used Eudora Light 4.1 in the past and even 5.x series. I think the 5.x series isnt very good but the 4.1 is actually still pretty good.

 

[Astray]

I prefer Plain Text, I always have my email clients force plain text only.

 

[MrChad]

What operating system?

 

[ValuedCustomer]

I think Outlook 2003 is great. Not cheap but great. And if you're a student then it's even cheap if purchased through the school.. - keep in mind the vast majority of office enviroments you work in (or will be working in) use the M$ Office suite.. might as well get familiar w/ it.

 

[nweaver]

Outlook2k3 can, in no way, be considered light (not that it's a bad client, it just doesn't fit the bill)


lightest I could think of...perl and cron to check the mail server and spool the emails to the printer

 

[ValuedCustomer]

d'oh! I musta glazed right over the "resource light" request.. you're very correct. Outlook is a unapologetic hog when it comes to sys res

 

[Astray]

Originally posted by: MrChad
What operating system?

Windows XP.

 

[kaishaku72]

I recommend Becky.

My history of e-mail includes pine on VAX/VMS terminals, and later Slackware,
followed by Mutt in Debian for a very long time. Eventually, I started using
Windows more for my workstation (ca. 1999). Outlook Express and Thunderbird
are not enough for me, but I could recommend them to family and friends.

I too send and prefer to receive mail in text format. As you will notice I even
post in forums with consideration for reader-friendly line length out of habit.

I used The Bat! for a couple years and wrote a few plugins, but it is frail software.
Eventually I was considering writing my own client or a Mutt port to Windows.

I gave Becky another try, and agreed with the elegance I considered spartan
when evaluating it some years earlier (before choosing The Bat (unfortunately)).

I have been using Becky for a couple years now and written a couple plugins.

I really like it. It benefits from the direction of a single intelligent developer.
It provides everything I want, and a spectacular plugin API to make adding
most other things trivial. There are many plugins and an active community.

http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm

It will work forever without registration or payment, but as a developer I
prefer to pay people for their hard work. I think others should too.

I use qmail and tmda on my mail server, notable as my means of spam
protection is decoupled from my mail client. I also use a desktop mail
delivery relay to transform outgoing mail for my own advanced needs.

P.S. Some readers may jump to obscene and offensive conclusions about my use
of tagged message delivery and mailing lists. Those conclusions are very wrong.

 

[kaishaku72]

Looking at my notes from a few years ago, I see I was reluctant to use The Bat
due to my overall impression of poor design and quality control. I was right, but
it did cost me quite a bit of annoyance (not to mention the business license fees).

I found this list in my notes:

? Becky
? Eudora
? Pegasus Mail
? Calypso
? RoundAbout
? Phoenix
? Mahogany
? Foxmail
? PocoMail
? Opera M2
? The Bat

I tried all the clients I could at the time for Windows, including some not listed.

If I didn't have Becky now, I would probably try some version of Eudora. I do
not think I could accept using a text-mode client like Mutt in Windows after all.
I don't think Eudora would fare well with me, as I have rejected it in the past,
but I know a few fellow independent professionals who use it. A better choice
may have surfaced in the past couple years, and it's probably open source,
but Thunderbird is not it (for me).

I was considering extending one of the open source clients, but felt I would be
better off writing my own in Python w/QT or extending existing Python clients.