Which is your favourite mail client?

trish06

Any1 tried windows live mail,just started using it
looks realy good :T

superscaper

peter_the_piper wrote: »

ref HDD crash, been computing for 20 odd years and am lucky enough not to have had one.

I have had completely unrecoverable hard disc failures but I've not lost any emails.

irnbru_2

Was Pine now Alpine

Doublespresso

Stompa wrote: »

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

No, I don't think I had a corrupt installation, in fact I had recurring problems with OE on several PCs, I think it simply can't cope with very large number of emails and becomes unstable [IMO] because of the way it stores them all together in DBX files.

Having said that OE is probably ok for normal average use.

FrugalFriend

peter_the_piper wrote: »

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.

That's a very valid point in Thunderbird's favour, it's available for both Windows and Linux, so you could still use Thunderbird as your email client should you ever switch to Linux. (Which by the way I'd recommend. )

I'm on my vanilla Windows machine now, and as usual opening Outlook freezes my computer, just one of the annoying things about Outlook. Fortunately I don't use Windows, and the buggy, bloated Outlook, very often.

P.S. You can get a very handy Webmail extension for Thunderbird. With this easily installed and configured plug-in you can pick up mail from web based email accounts using Thunderbird. It works with Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos (Europe), MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL.

Stompa

Doublespresso wrote: »

I think it simply can't cope with very large number of emails and becomes unstable [IMO] because of the way it stores them all together in DBX files.

Ah OK, I believe dbx files have a 2GB limit after which it breaks. From a purely organizational point of view I don't think I'd ever let a file get anywhere close to that size - though of course that's no excuse for the software falling over at that point.