Which is your favourite mail client?

Conor_3

Windows Live Mail.

BillScarab

Another vote for Thunderbird and Lightning, Lighting is the calendar app if you're not familiar with it.

LadyMorticia

BillScarab wrote: »

Another vote for Thunderbird and Lightning, Lighting is the calendar app if you're not familiar with it.

I've just googled Lightning and it looks like it would be very useful to me so thanks for mentioning it.

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esuhl

I like Popcorn (which is portable) and Courier (from Rose City Software) - both are really simple and easy to use.

FrugalFriend

Yeah Thunderbird is good and much faster than Outlook. Although now I'm using Evolution, but only because it's installed by default in Ubuntu, and I can't be bothered to change it. It's OK too. When I using Windows XP I used to install the Thunderbird and Firefox WinXP theme, it looks great. Makes Thunderbird look like Outlook, it's cool.

superscaper

FrugalFriend wrote: »

Yeah Thunderbird is good and much faster than Outlook. Although now I'm using Evolution, but only because it's installed by default in Ubuntu, and I can't be bothered to change it. It's OK too. When I using Windows XP I used to install the Thunderbird and Firefox WinXP theme, it looks great. Makes Thunderbird look like Outlook, it's cool.

Did you mean Outlook or Outlook Express. Directly comparing Outlook to Thunderbird is like comparing notepad to Word. Notepad opens a lot faster but they're essentially two different things. If you mean Outlook Express then yes that's not a great program but then you should definitely distinguish it from Outlook.

fwor

I'm another (mainly) happy Evolution user.

I must admit I wanted to move to Thunderbird, but at the time (a year or so ago) I couldn't find a calendar/diary that was equivalent to Outlook, though maybe Lightning was around then and I just missed it.

Incidentally, the only reason I have any doubts about Evolution is that in the Calendar section it occasionally locks up for several minutes when moving between months.

bookduck

google web mail, or any web mail. Had enough of clients, updates, certain attachments getting block or jamming the system due to size. Then when you migrate to a new os or wipe the pc there is the mail back up and get working again. Too much trouble with important stuff like this.

How many times have your hdd crashed, and if it hasn't happened yet it is only a matter of time! Web mail is simple and it works.

peter_the_piper

Used to use Poco which was very good but they stopped updating it years ago so went to Thunderbird and never looked back as its both on linux and Windows.
ref HDD crash, been computing for 20 odd years and am lucky enough not to have had one.

Stompa

Doublespresso wrote: »

Having used OutlookExpress for many many years (and suffered quite a lot due to general instability of the app)

FWIW that would make me wonder if you had a corrupt installation - it's been 100% rock solid for me for many years.