What's the best email client?

[darkjester]

<< is the email client for mozilla less resourceful than OE? I should take a look.. i'd just use mozilla.. but it sucks up 40MB of ram... and IE is so conveniently built in xp... mozilla tends to crash a bit on me still... but it's gettin there. >>


40MB of RAM!? Yeah, that's what I'm getting here. Two browser windows and messenger open and Task Manager has its process listed as swallowing up about 39MB! That's insane! ... but for some reason I'm not feeling lag effects (unlike Netscape Messenger).

I'm a little shocked... 40MB of RAM. Damn!:Q

 

[darkjester]

<< Does anyone know for sure which email client meets the following criteria:
a) Built in spell checker
b) Newsgroup support.
Eudora doesn't have newsgroup support, but it has a spell checker.
Outlook Express has newsgroup support but not a built in spell checker.
Someone suggested Mozzila. Is that true? Does it fit the above criteria?
(I also heard Mozzila has a built in web browser, unfortunately I don't need yet one more browser at this time). >>


Mozilla apparently had/will have spell-checking capabilities. There's an option in the preferences to check spelling, but it's greyed out right now. So either it was there and now it's broken or it will be there in an upcoming release. But I do know that it definitely reads newsgroups.

As for the web-browser... Well, that's just a matter of the "combo" package that it comes with. Since Mozilla is Netscape without all of the AOL-ist bloat, it functions just like Netscape but faster. If you're using Netscape currently, I'd just move over to Mozilla. Until yesterday, Netscape was my primary web-browser at home (backed up by IE). Now Mozilla is my primary.

Hope that helps.

 

[BlackOmen]

Pine . But for you windows types, you can't beat Pegasus Mail.

 

[Mitzi]

Since reading this thread I installed Eudora 5.1 and I've been evaluating it for the last few days. My conclusion? What a fantastic email client! Small, fast and not bloated at all. I'm so happy with it in fact - I might even buy it!

 

[wolf550e]

OE6 for me, but I heared a lot of good stuff about "The Bat!"

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Pegasus Mail. Easily

 

[menderchuck]

I'm lazy so I use Outlook express

 

[Descartes]

Email client? Bah! I manually negotiate all my pop3 sessions as follows...

telnet pop3server 110

user username
pass password
list
retr n
quit

And to send email messages, I manually negotiate my smtp sessions as follows...

telnet smtpserver 25
helo mydomain.com
mail from:me@mydomain.com
rcpt to:you@yourdomain.com
data
Subject: Subject
From: Me <me@mydomain.com>
To: You <you@yourdomain.com>

Hi there

.

But, not really.

 

[cressida]

Incredimail

 

[shiner]

PocoMail 2.6 pretty much kicks ass.... HERE'S a link

 

[shiner]

<< Email client? Bah! I manually negotiate all my pop3 sessions as follows... >>



And you probably still use your hands or leaves to wipe.

 

[DDCSpeed]

groupwise because viruses dont affet groupwise as much.

 

[Descartes]

<< And you probably still use your hands or leaves to wipe. >>



Who told you?!

I was kidding, btw.

 

[shiner]

<< I was kidding, btw >>



As was I my friend....as was I....