[ipodstudio]

Thought I'd start a thread to see what kind of email clients folks were using these days.

I personally have used The bat! for a few years now and can say it's great software and one of the safest, too..

 

[pank2002]

I just use webbased yahoo. It was too complicated with Outlook, which I original tried to use, and I've just used various webbased emails since. I like the fact that I can use the same mail everywhere.

 

[Thrasher]

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Originally Posted by ipodstudio Thought I'd start a thread to see what kind of email clients folks were using these days. I personally have used The bat! for a few years now and can say it's great software and one of the safest, too..

Can you import emails from Outlook to The Bat!?

 

[vwap]

If your goal was to see what people use these days, the title of the post should be changed to reflect that.

Anyhow, I used Netscape Communicator's mail program up until a month or two ago, and recently moved to Outlook Express.

OE may get ragged on by everyone, but it works, and it's free. I've got nine different IMAP e-mail accounts I'm using, and OE makes it very easy to see and access each of them, all with different outgoing e-mail servers, incoming e-mail servers, etc.

Filters could be improved to work with IMAP-based mail accounts, and checking-interval should be able to be configured per-account and not on a global basis, but I'm satisfied with what it allows me to do.

Two thumbs up from here.

 

[ipodstudio]

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Originally Posted by Thrasher Can you import emails from Outlook to The Bat!?

Yep, no probs.

 

[ipodstudio]

The Bat! software writers are based in the Republic of Moldova, BTW. Just some extra useless info..

 

[mtkversion]

Thunderbird

 

[hempcamp]

Apple Mail and Pine.

Pine is my favorite, but so many of my idiotic friends send HTML and rich text e-mails these days, I have to use Apple Mail to read them right.

--Chris

 

[Demolition]

I use Eudora, but only because I'm used to it (I've been using it for a decade). However, I do find that its filing system, search function, and filtering are very useful and powerful, so I haven't given much thought to switching to something else.

But, if I wasn't already using Eudora (and storing tens of thousands of e-mails in its filing system), I'd probably use either Thunderbird or Apple Mail. In my testing of these two clients, I find that they are closest to my idea of what constitutes a good e-mail client. That is, they are intuitively-designed, easy to use, have many useful features, and offer good stability.


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Originally Posted by ipodstudio The Bat! software writers are based in the Republic of Moldova, BTW. Just some extra useless info..

I get a fair bit of spam with The Bat! listed in the x-mailer header. Although, I don't necessarily believe that people are using The Bat! to batch-send spam, filtering for The Bat! could reduce my spamload substantially. Unfortunately, I do occasionally receive legitimate e-mail from people using The Bat!, so I just have to rely on other mail rules as specified in my server-side and client-side filtering.

D.

 

[averydonovan]

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Originally Posted by mtkversion Thunderbird

Same here. I switched from PocoMail 8 months ago after PocoMail decided it didn't want to check email any longer and nothing I did could fix it. There are still some things I miss about PocoMail, its filtering features are far more powerful and easier to use than Thunderbird's antiquated filters and PocoMail is easier to use overall, but Thunderbird beats it overall in speed and reliability. Not to mention it's free.

 

[v_1matst]

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Originally Posted by hempcamp Apple Mail and Pine. Pine is my favorite, but so many of my idiotic friends send HTML and rich text e-mails these days, I have to use Apple Mail to read them right. --Chris

you can set Pine up to use lynx/links to view the HTML components of the email. I'm not sure how to handle the RTF emails, but you should be able to change you character set to accomidate them when you get them (ala procmail and your pine config).

Apple's OSX mail client is great, however I love the simplicity of Pine. Mutt is another (threaded mail rocks)...

 

[tortie]

I used to use MS Outlook, but I switched to Eudora to lessen any security risks and other problems associated with Microsoft IE and Outlook.

 

[Haribo]

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Originally Posted by mtkversion Thunderbird

 

[ipodstudio]

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Originally Posted by Demolition I get a fair bit of spam with The Bat! listed in the x-mailer header. Although, I don't necessarily believe that people are using The Bat! to batch-send spam, filtering for The Bat! could reduce my spamload substantially. Unfortunately, I do occasionally receive legitimate e-mail from people using The Bat!, so I just have to rely on other mail rules as specified in my server-side and client-side filtering. D.

Hi Demo! Yes, I think some of the spammers actually use The Bat! to send out mass emails. I believe you can mod it for that. It's pretty safe, too, so spammers probably like that as they sure must get revenge attacked quite abit..

 

[Textual Intercou]

mail.app for when I'm behind the campus network, pine for when I have to ssh in to the dialup server