Email Client Recommendations?

[Brett_Tabke]

That time of year again for the yearly, my kingdom for a safe full featured secure Email client thread.

So, anything new out there in the last year?

Currently toying with one called pocomail. Looked very promising, but in tests, it crashed several times on me.

[pendanticist]

Eudora Lite 3.0.6

<Oooops! Not exactly new>

Yawn, better go splash some water on my face.

Pendanticist.

[NeedScripts]

I use OutLook XP have nothing but *GOOD* things to say about it. :)

[dingman]

In the *nix space, I've been thrilled with the progress Evolution has made. So much so, in fact, that when I tried going back to Outlook on my machine at work, I was frustrated by how many things Outlook couldn't do! Though I've done something to it that killed the spell-checker. And you all know how much I need one...

[Muskie]

Mailsmith for Mac OS X. It is a bit slow but is spiffy for multiple accounts. It is also integrated well with SpamAssassin and SpamSeive. Coupled with it's rediculously good custom filtering I get basically no spam in my inbox. Course I still recieve and have to download many spam a day...

It has weeknesses, no integration with system wide Address book, though they plan it, and no IMAP support though again they are going to implement it.

Muskie

[4eyes]

When I was on Windows I used 'The Bat' - excellent client, and pretty safe compared to the competition.

I tried Evolution on Unix and loved it before switching to Sylpheed for the speed increase.

Now I am using Mozilla 1.3's client because of the *very* promising Bayesian spam filter (albeit an unfinished work-in-progress).

If "The Bat" had a Linux version I would switch immediately.

[Romeo]

I am happy with the KDE 3.0 Mail program KMail 1.4.3 on my Linux box with strictly deactivated HTML -- no more dealing with risky HTML mail stuff (... the fatal disease) since I use it.

Regards,
R.

[Mardi_Gras]

Here's what I'm looking for:

1) Full featured address book
2) interface with WinFax (because I often fax to the same people I e-mail)
3) Ability to send personalized e-mail easily to groups - without using the ridiculous bcc solution that Outlook forces upon me.

I guess my needs are different than many in that I often send e-mails to small groups of five to 25 people (no, its not my joke list:)). I don't want to fire up Word and do a merge to e-mail for that, and I don't want to deal with separate address books for a dedicated "bulk" mailer that will allow personalized sending.

Why can't Outlook allow a simple, personalized send to contacts in a particular category (and do away with Distribution Lists entirely...)

I'm still looking...

[Busynut]

Although Pegasus Mail certainly isn't "new," I find it is more secure than other email clients I've tried (Eudora and Outlook). It can be set up for multiple users on a network or on a single computer, you can create "distribution" lists, easily allows selective mail download, can be configured for multi-pop email downloads, multiple identities/aliases, powerful filtering for message organization, and many other features.

[pmail.com...]

[NeedScripts]

hum....

From what I see of Evolution, I would not compare it with Outlook *XP*. I think it stands no chance. Outlook seems much better and has many more features.

Hi Mardi_Gras,

1) Full featured address book
2) interface with WinFax (because I often fax to the same people I e-mail)
3) Ability to send personalized e-mail easily to groups - without using the ridiculous bcc solution that Outlook forces upon me (I thin you can do this with distribution list in outlook XP).

From what I see, OutLook XP has all this and much more like
1) Calendar
2) Tasks Options
3) Notes Section
4) Reminder options (with lots of wonderful feature like, date, frequency, priority,...... etc)

Also, I think, few people do misjudge by thinking Outlook Express (the one that comes for free with computer with win as os) and Outlook XP as one and the same.

I have tried few other software, but none other email client is nearly as good as Outlook XP.

P.S.. And not to mention *Rule Wizard*, the best way to sort out incoming emails and block junk. :)

[mat]

Brett - I name-dropped Pocomail a couple of days back. Odd that it crashed on you - roughly 2 years with it now and never had that happen (W2k and XP).

I came to it as a long-term user of Eudora Pro, and found it much more 'belled-and-whistled' and far more customisable - I've barely begin to scratch the surface of what can be done with the built-in scripting language.

Still, a crash is a crash.

Mat

[lorax]

Pegasus here. It's not as full featured as some but I've been using it for 6 years and it has done fine by me - but then I don't have a large address book and don't use distribution lists even though they are part of Pmail.

[Robert Charlton]

1) Full featured address book
2) interface with WinFax (because I often fax to the same people I e-mail)
3) Ability to send personalized e-mail easily to groups - without using the ridiculous bcc solution that Outlook forces upon me.

I'd even settle for (1) and (3).

How's the address book in Pegasus? Its feature-set looks pretty good. Does it sort by first or last name? One of my big gripes about Eudora is that name sorting leaves a lot to be desired.

[c3oc3o]

I used to use "Kaufman Mail Warrior" for a year or so, but it became unstable if there was little free diskspace left, it broke on most HTML and development seems to be dead, so I looked for a new mail client myself a couple of weeks ago.

After a short experiment with Mozilla mail (tooo sloooooow), I fell in love with Foxmail 4.2, a chinese-developed (but english language), pretty little client. It does everything I need - multiple accounts, allowing me to type in the "From" address when composing emails, fast, easy on RAM (takes up only about 3 MB), good filters, ...

HTML rendering (click a button to toggle) uses IE for the formatting, therefore probably taking over several IE security problems.. but since it's off by default I dont mind that much.

A unique feature is the ability to send emails straight to the recipient's mail server without using your own ISP's SMTP server, but I'm not certain about the usefulness of that.
You can also preview the mails on your mail server before downloading, so you can for example delete obvious viruses before having to transfer them.
There's an optional, about 15px high ticker that you can place at the top of the screen (it stays on top of other windows) to immediately see when new mails come in, and the app can be minimized to tray instead of task bar.

It also imports Outlook mails and accesses Hotmail accounts. There's an SMS function as well, but that only works in China ;-)
I have that program open 24 hours, and it has never crashed on me yet.

Mardi_Gras:
I don't use the address book heavily and don't send much group mail, but it seems full-featured enough to me.
No idea about WinFax.
Foxmail has a "templates" menu button, I just tried that for the first time, and it seems you can create excellent templates for mails, automatically insert the recipients name etc.

The only problem might be - there are good Chinese, French and German pages about it, but not really a good English one I could find. Anyway, try it out:
[fox.foxmail.com.cn...]

[bcc1234]

The Bat!