What email client to get?

[iElite]

Hi, I've got multiple business email accounts as well as a couple of personal accounts. And it's just boring and wasting of huge time to check individual email accounts throughout the day. I need to check emails almost 10-20 times in every 30 minutes throughout the entire day and going to individual email accounts each time is waste of big time.

I was looking at Thunderbird but Mozilla stopped supporting it and stopped development and I'm a bit concern to input my passwords and also maybe I run into an error in future, then I would get no support from devs.

So, what do you suggest on this? What do you guys use yourself?

Thanks in advance!

 

[lxskllr]

Thunderbird. It's still being maintained, and has regular updates.

 

[mikeymikec]

Mozilla haven't stopped supporting Thunderbird. I got an automatic update the other day.

+1 Thunderbird.

 

[iElite]

Thanks for the recommendations

And is it safe to input account passwords in Thunderbird? Coz these are business mail accounts.

Also, I was looking at Postbox email client. Anyone knows how it is?

 

[lxskllr]

Passwords are about as safe as they are in firefox. Dunno about postbox. Looks like proprietary software, and I only use proprietary software if I have to.

 

[mikeymikec]

Thanks for the recommendations

And is it safe to input account passwords in Thunderbird? Coz these are business mail accounts.

Also, I was looking at Postbox email client. Anyone knows how it is?

I use TB for business and personal and it has all my passwords saved. IMO standalone e-mail clients like TB are nowhere near as vulnerable as say a web browser, and so I don't generally save my passwords in my browser.

 

[Ketchup]

I ran three email account on Thunderbird for years with no issues.

 

[bbhaag]

Outlook needs to be mentioned. It is what it is but no one can dispute that it's the industry standard email client for business.

 

[mikeymikec]

Outlook needs to be mentioned. It is what it is but no one can dispute that it's the industry standard email client for business.

The only reason to mention Outlook that I can think of would be if one's business resolves around sending meeting requests and heavy calendar usage. Saying that Outlook is the industry standard for business is like saying there's an industry standard ballpoint pen: It makes no difference to anything, except in the one respect I mentioned already.

 

[iElite]

I use TB for business and personal and it has all my passwords saved. IMO standalone e-mail clients like TB are nowhere near as vulnerable as say a web browser, and so I don't generally save my passwords in my browser.

I ran three email account on Thunderbird for years with no issues.

I'm using Thunderbird since today and added a couple of email accounts and it feels a bit slow and laggy.

Outlook needs to be mentioned. It is what it is but no one can dispute that it's the industry standard email client for business.

Outlook is $130. Kinda like too much imo. Anyway to get it a bit cheaper?

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm using Thunderbird since today and added a couple of email accounts and it feels a bit slow and laggy.

In what way? The only thing I can think of that's slower than I'd like in TB is moving thousands of messages around locally (ie. not IMAP).

Outlook is $130. Kinda like too much imo. Anyway to get it a bit cheaper?

Pricing may vary depending on the country (I'm in the UK), another way is rental through Office 365. For UK pricing IMO this only makes monetary sense if you've got multiple users (e.g. a family), or you need more obscure Office bits like Publisher/Access.

 

[iElite]

In what way? The only thing I can think of that's slower than I'd like in TB is moving thousands of messages around locally (ie. not IMAP).
Laggy in the sense that when I'm double on mails to read, it takes time to load the entire content even when the mail is short.

Pricing may vary depending on the country (I'm in the UK), another way is rental through Office 365. For UK pricing IMO this only makes monetary sense if you've got multiple users (e.g. a family), or you need more obscure Office bits like Publisher/Access.

I only need the Outlook and I can buy in USD. I have PayPal as well as credit card.

The rental office 365 Personal version gives full outlook desktop application?

 

[Ketchup]

The slowness depends:
1. When you first set it up, it will take a while to download all your messages (and I would let the app you choose finish this before actually using).
2. Most email applications get pretty slow on me if my total inbox goes much over 1,000 emails. They still work, just a bit slower, although Outlook handles this better than Thunderbird IMO.
3. Some email accounts handle apps better than others. I was doing fine with multiple accounts until I tried to add a Hotmail account that I rarely used. It really slowed things down, even if it was the first email account I added to the app, so I just use the web to check on that one when the need arises.

 

[mikeymikec]

With regard to the inbox thing, I've never experienced it myself, but one anti-spam strategy I use is to filter anything that is to or cc'd to me to another folder I've called "Main inbox". If anything still lands in what the mail client considers to be the inbox then it is probably spam.

I haven't experienced slowdown with regard to multiple e-mail accounts, though I have experienced something similar-ish to ketchup's third point in that one mail provider (whom I'm soon to be rid of) doesn't like it if I check mail too often (let's say I'm waiting for something and I clicked on 'get mail' a few times in a few minutes), then it started timing out and throwing errors. For that mail account I've told TB to only check it every ten minutes and not to check it as part of me telling it to get mail. Then that mail provider runs on its own cycle and never has any problems.

 

[bbhaag]

The only reason to mention Outlook that I can think of would be if one's business resolves around sending meeting requests and heavy calendar usage. Saying that Outlook is the industry standard for business is like saying there's an industry standard ballpoint pen: It makes no difference to anything, except in the one respect I mentioned already.

Yeah the entire Office Suite is the industry standard. You can agree with it or not but the fact is Office rules the business world.

Outlook is $130. Kinda like too much imo. Anyway to get it a bit cheaper?

It's $130 man. You're telling us that you check emails 10-20 times a day every thirty minutes for business related reasons. $130 over the course of a year equals $.35 a day. $.35 a day seems like a small price to pay to have your emails all coming into one client that you can sift through fast and easy.

 

[iElite]

The slowness depends:
1. When you first set it up, it will take a while to download all your messages (and I would let the app you choose finish this before actually using).
2. Most email applications get pretty slow on me if my total inbox goes much over 1,000 emails. They still work, just a bit slower, although Outlook handles this better than Thunderbird IMO.
3. Some email accounts handle apps better than others. I was doing fine with multiple accounts until I tried to add a Hotmail account that I rarely used. It really slowed things down, even if it was the first email account I added to the app, so I just use the web to check on that one when the need arises.

Thanks for the tips

With regard to the inbox thing, I've never experienced it myself, but one anti-spam strategy I use is to filter anything that is to or cc'd to me to another folder I've called "Main inbox". If anything still lands in what the mail client considers to be the inbox then it is probably spam.

I haven't experienced slowdown with regard to multiple e-mail accounts, though I have experienced something similar-ish to ketchup's third point in that one mail provider (whom I'm soon to be rid of) doesn't like it if I check mail too often (let's say I'm waiting for something and I clicked on 'get mail' a few times in a few minutes), then it started timing out and throwing errors. For that mail account I've told TB to only check it every ten minutes and not to check it as part of me telling it to get mail. Then that mail provider runs on its own cycle and never has any problems.

Alright thnx mate.

Yeah the entire Office Suite is the industry standard. You can agree with it or not but the fact is Office rules the business world.


It's $130 man. You're telling us that you check emails 10-20 times a day every thirty minutes for business related reasons. $130 over the course of a year equals $.35 a day. $.35 a day seems like a small price to pay to have your emails all coming into one client that you can sift through fast and easy.

Suppose I get the Outlook 2016, can I upgrade to the new version when it comes out, like for example in 2019 or so? And if I don't upgrade, will the Outlook 2016 stop functioning as the new version is released?

 

[bbhaag]

Suppose I get the Outlook 2016, can I upgrade to the new version when it comes out, like for example in 2019 or so? And if I don't upgrade, will the Outlook 2016 stop functioning as the new version is released?

Look man I'm not going to do the leg work for you. Do the research and figure out the answers to your questions. You wanted options for email clients and I offered one that wasn't Thunderbird like everyone else suggested.
I'm a small business owner myself and on average I do over a million dollars a year in sales. When I upgraded our pc's last year I didn't think twice about spending the money for Office keys. That's what my distributors and vendors use so that is what I went with because of ease of use and compatibility.

 

[Ketchup]

Office 365 is the only one that lets you always have the latest version. It starts at $100 a year, but covers everything (Word, Excel, Outlool, etc).

 

[EXCellR8]

Thunderbird or eM client. I like eM for its minimalist design, though that might not work for the masses.

 

[iElite]

Look man I'm not going to do the leg work for you. Do the research and figure out the answers to your questions. You wanted options for email clients and I offered one that wasn't Thunderbird like everyone else suggested.
I'm a small business owner myself and on average I do over a million dollars a year in sales. When I upgraded our pc's last year I didn't think twice about spending the money for Office keys. That's what my distributors and vendors use so that is what I went with because of ease of use and compatibility.

Office 365 is the only one that lets you always have the latest version. It starts at $100 a year, but covers everything (Word, Excel, Outlool, etc).

Thunderbird or eM client. I like eM for its minimalist design, though that might not work for the masses.

Thanks for all the suggestions fellas. And yes Office 365 seems a good option as it has a low monthly subscription.

 

[mikeymikec]

Office 365 is the only one that lets you always have the latest version. It starts at $100 a year, but covers everything (Word, Excel, Outlool, etc).

That works both ways though: I've had customers get stung by automatic upgrades to 365 gone wrong. At the glacial rate that Office gets updated, I'd be happy running a standalone version until it is ~10 years old and stops being supported.