Poll: What mail client do you use?

[Entity]

I'm thinking of switching away from Pine, so I can use something where I can change the appearance of my address - if this is possible. I have email forwarding on the address rob@hikefordiabetes.org, and would like to have email I send from a particular client (tried Pegasus and Foxmail, didn't care much for either) reflect that email address.

Example: When I send an email to a company from my email client, I would like it to say From: Rob Cole <rob@hikefordiabetes.org> instead of from: Rob Cole <robcole@u.washington.edu>.

What client would y'all recommend, and what do you use?

Rob

 

[Russ]

Damn, Rob, you don't even have the best one listed in the poll: Eudora

Russ, NCNE

 

[konichiwa]

Blech...I used to use Eudora, but it's so bloated.

 

[Pretender]

I'll second the vote for Eudora. It may not have sh!tloads of bells and whistles but it gets the job done well.

 

[Entity]

Eudora has been added.

Anyone know if I can do that little reply-to / address idea in Eudora?

Rob

 

[Russ]

konichiwa,

Eudora bloated? Compared to what? The eMail built in to the two most bloated wastes of code ever written: IE and Netscape?

Russ, NCNE

 

[kami]

Outlook 2000 here. I'm very happy with it and all of the features. I haven't used Eudora in a dog's age though, so it's probably much better now.

 

[Russ]

Rob,

You can set the return address to anything you want in Eudora.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Pretender]

I'm still on Eudora 3.0.6 (32 bit). It's old (copyrighted 1997), but it's great.

I'm thinking of upgrading, anyone know if it's possible to combine the mailboxes from the 3 installations of Eudora I have now into just 1 installation, and if so, what version would I need?

 

[StageLeft]

Actually I've tried sticking in different return addresses recently and with various pop accounts the pop server seems to reject it as it thinks your client is just piggy backing and shouldn't be I had a sweet prank I was gonna pull on my brother and this wrecked the scheme.

 

[Russ]

Skoorb,

No problem with that in Eudora. I have so many different addresses, SMTP and POP servers that I have a hard time keeping track of them, and it always works.

I don't think the &quot;Return Address&quot; section in Eudora is even looked at by the mail server. It just looks at POP and SMTP and some servers will reject it if these two don't come off of the same server.

BTW, even if you use a different return address, the real address can still be found in the headers, so it's pretty tough to pull a prank on anybody unless they're a real neophyte.

Russ, NCNE

 

[xtreme2k]

Outlook Express

 

[konichiwa]

Russ

Okay, I retract that statement. I haven't used it since pre-version 3...and I just didn't like it. But you know, Russ, OE can do the return address faking thing too...

 

[Entity]

Russ,

It's not for a prank, just for appearances.

Rob

 

[Russ]

Rob,

I was referring to Skoorb's post that he wanted to play a prank on his brother.

Russ, NCNE

 

[yakko]

I use Outlook Express at home and Outlook at work.

 

[DaveJ]

I use Pegasus Mail, have been ever since I got on the Net... it's small, fast and works extremely well... I have over 250MB of mail in several folders and it never has a problem. Plus it's really easy to set up multiple identites and switch between them on the fly. You can't do that with OE or Outlook...

Dave

 

[Entity]

Hmmm...

I'm getting this error message:



<< <Dominant>, 1 messages left to send., RCPT TO:<webmaster@diabetes.org> [07:21:04 PM]
Can't send to 'webmaster@diabetes.org'. The server gives this reason: '500 <webmaster@diabetes.org> . . . Relaying denied. >>



Anybody know how I can fix that?

 

[Crimson]

Your outgoing mail server is doing its job and blocking outgoing mail from addresses which do not belong to it.. IE, if you are trying to send outgoing mail under the hikefordiabetes.org name, but trying to send it through your universities mail servers, it won't send it.. (IE, it won't relay it).. The reason behind this is that your outgoing mail server (SMTP) does not have username and password authentication like your incoming mail, thus, the only way it can determine whether or not you are a user is by your IP address or email address. If you are signed onto your university while trying to send it, its probably blocking it because the email address its not from a domain they host.

 

[Crimson]

Oh yeah, the &quot;solution&quot; to the problem is to use the outgoing mail server of the company which is hosting your web page.. they should give you a mail server which will allow you to send under that address. If not, then its time to find a new host for your domain.

 

[Entity]

Actually, I get that email when I use my <robcole@u.washington.edu> address as well. Ideas?

And the site I &quot;host&quot; on isn't actually a hosting service, but a redirection service.

Rob

 

[Russ]

Rob,

What eMail client are you using?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Entity]

Eudora.



Rob

 

[Entity]

It must be my mail server; I can't even put rob@hikefordiabetes.org in my return email address.

Rob

 

[Entity]

Now it's not working at all.

Rob