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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 18 May 2004, 22:08

Title: Need New Email Client
Post by: mobrien_12 on 18 May 2004, 22:08

As I posted before,(Outlook) (http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=000336) Outlook is not standards compliant and won't read email attachments sent by Pine.  

This is becoming a serious problem for me because many Windows users typically respond in one or more of the following ways:

• Don't believe me,
• Don't want to patch their MS software,
• Don't want to hear that their MS software has a bug,
• Blame me for using a "non-standard" product (meaning, in their minds, something that doesn't work right with broken MS software).

I can't tell them to stop using Outlook and I can't not deal with them.  I need a new email client that has the following properties

•  Encrypted password support.
• IMAP based.
• Does not download all messages from the server, but downloads them one-at-a-time on demand and does not store a local copy (this is extremely important).
• Works in console mode (e.g. over an SSH connection with vt100 emulation).  
• Has a naitive windows and Linux version.

In other words, I want something that works like Pine but will deal with broken MS software.  

Any suggestions?

Title: Need New Email Client
Post by: KernelPanic on 18 May 2004, 23:06

I think Mozilla Thunderbird may fit the bill but I don't know it's configuration inside and out.

Personally I use
sylpheed-claws (http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/) exclusively, but that doesn't work on windows.