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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Jack2000 on 2 June 2006, 16:54

Title: 1 mail program
Post by: Jack2000 on 2 June 2006, 16:54

I am considering to use
a mail program
maby a mozilla one ore maby something else

soo
I ask you ...
Wich is your favourite mail program :)


it has to be free afcourse

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 2 June 2006, 17:48

Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/) is pretty good (it's Mozilla) ... I don't really use it too often though.

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Refalm on 2 June 2006, 19:07

Opera Mail (http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/m2/) for my other e-mail address, but usually I use Gmail.

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: piratePenguin on 2 June 2006, 19:47

Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/) (good if you use GNOME), mutt (http://www.mutt.org/) (text-based mail client).
I've heard thunderbird is good too.

EDIT: KDE has a mail reader too. I can't remember the name, but it was probably KMail (very creative :p).

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: worker201 on 2 June 2006, 20:08

pine, for spam-fighting emergencies

Thunderbird for daily use

I used to use balsa, but it would hang on certain bits of HTML code and become unusable until you purged the message, either by hand from the mailbox file, or using pine.  So unfortunately, I cannot recommend balsa.

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 2 June 2006, 22:06

Opera comes with a built-in email client but it's shit, it's my only criticism of what otherwise is a great piece of software.

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: worker201 on 2 June 2006, 22:14

[offtopic]I knew there had to be something about Opera you didn't like...[/offtopic]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: piratePenguin on 2 June 2006, 22:19

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

Opera comes with a built-in email client but it's shit, it's my only criticism of what otherwise is a great piece of software.

[offtopic]So Opera's not a great piece of software? ;)[/offtopic]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 2 June 2006, 22:43

[offtopic]Opera's the best browers but it isn't the best email client, I might just put it ahead of Outlook because for security's sake but it's inferiour as far as features are concerned.

Either way if you have a low memory machine it's probably better than using Firefox and Thunderbird as it does two jobs with one piece of software, therefore makeing the most effective use of available memory. :p[/offtopic]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: worker201 on 2 June 2006, 23:43

[offtopic]Is this really offtopic? If you surf the web and check your mail at the same time, then your arguement makes sense. In fact, anything that makes multitasking easier on a low power computer is great. But how many people are so hardcore that they can read email and surf the web at the same time?

Personally, if I was going to do the mail/web-at-the-same-time-with-the-same-program thing, I would probably use Mozilla. Sea Monkey even. Mozilla's mail client is top notch, and Sea Monkey is a rad browser.[/offtopic]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 3 June 2006, 00:02

[offtopic]LOL true, but Sea Monkey is more bloated than Opera - not ideal on low end hardware.[/offtopic]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: WMD on 3 June 2006, 01:26

Funny how you guys jump at any attempt to discredit Jonez's love for Opera. ;)

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: GenuineAdvantage on 3 June 2006, 08:55

I go with thunderbird because it's virtually identical on any OS it runs while still being good. It's simple too, no clutter for simple use.

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Jack2000 on 3 June 2006, 10:07

:) right
then it is going to be thunderbird
becouse i DO surf the net and chek my mail all at  the same time

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: Refalm on 5 June 2006, 19:46

[OFFTOPIC]I agree that Opera Mail is shit, but it serves sending the occasional e-mail on my second account.[/OFFTOPIC]

Title: Re: 1 mail program
Post by: solemnwarning on 6 June 2006, 08:51

I just run squirrelmail on my server, but kmail rules for IMAP/POP3 :)