count_zer0 - 9:38 pm on May 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

Just thought I'd jump in with a suggestion: have you ever considered RitLabs' The Bat? It's a great email client that's really well coded so it's not bloated and slow like Outlook. It has really great features - the message filtering is superb, and you can import your address book from Outlook. It handles multiple email accounts elegantly - you can even configure it to run as a mail server - and has a properly encrypted secure version. It's cheap too.

I've been using it for about a year and have never had any major complaints. It's only problem as far as I can see is that it's aimed at more "techie" types who like to tweak their software. Oh yeah, and mails in HTML format don't render very well, but I'm a plaintext person myself.

My colleague imported all of his mail in from Outlook and has been using it with Act 2000 with no problems as far as I can see, although I believe you can't send mailmerges from Act.

Does this sound any good? I'll stickymail you the URL if you like.