non-Outlook mail clients

[Adcadet]

hey Crew,
on my school laptop I use Outlook. Why? To keep my callendar with email, to see what viruses are being thrown around, and to remind me why I use Mozilla Mail. But how does MozMail compare with Thunderbird? About 6 months ago I used it and liked it, but ended up replacing it with Mozilla's Mail since it seemed to have a few less bugs. Comments?

Thanks,
Adcadet

 

[Fushigi]

Not a direct answer to your question but I find Outlook + Spamihilator + AVG to be a perfectly decent combo.

 

[blakerwry]

a few months ago i switched from thunderbird/firebird back to moz.. better browser and email integration....

 

[sechs]

I have used Eudora for many years with few issues.

 

[CougTek]

+ AVG ...

AVG has often overlooked some virus that were detected by other (NOD32) anti-virus programs. It's free, but it isn't the most efficient.

 

[Fushigi]

AVG has often overlooked some virus that were detected by other (NOD32) anti-virus programs. It's free, but it isn't the most efficient.

Those sorts of messages are caught by Spamihilator and are never opened/read in Outlook anyway. I'm quite aggressive at adding domains to the anti-spam rules.

BTW, in addition to the Netgear router's firewall I run Tiny Personal Firewall, which I like for it's stability, simplicity, and efficiency. And, of course, I apply Windows security patches as they are released.

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Thunderbird is coming along.

I switched to 0.6 on my home computer.
Aside from a blocked port 25 (SMTP) issue that I had to get around, it works pretty good. Only thing left for me now is to allow me to modify the from address easily. The SPAM filtering works pretty well (though more false positives than I'd like).

 

[Mercutio]

Not too long ago on one of my machines, thunderbird's adaptive spam filtering decided that mail from the people I work with should be considered spam. I had to completely reset the spam filters to make it stop trashing their mail.

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Thats funny. But I did notice a bug with the current milestone 0.6. As soon as you mark a message as not spam (ham?), the filter stops working. A little more marking makes it work.

 

[time]

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2335

I don't think too much has changed since. Scribe seems more stable now, however - it's top of my list to replace my existing email client if and when I finally change. The appearance is a little bit clunky, though.

 

[Handruin]

I was a bit disapointed to find spamihilator doesn't work with IMAP, only pop3. Have I been misinformed? I tried it last night and it didn't recognize any of my mail accounts except for the one POP3 I use.

 

[Will Rickards WT]

<dora the explorer>
I'm the map, I'm the map, Iiiii'mmmm the map!
</dora>

Everytime I see IMAP I think of that.

 

[Handruin]

You must have kids.

Swiper no swiping.

(I don't have kids, but I've seen a video game of Dora)

 

[EdwardK]

I have used Eudora for many years with few issues.

I second sechs on that.
I was forced to switch from Eudora to Outlook at work although I still use Eudora at home. The latest version of Eudora has improved their importer to import from Outlook and Apple Mail. The junk/spam filter of Eudora is adequate for my needs. My NAV2004 also integrates with Eudora and it scans all my incoming and outgoing emails. Maybe I should switched back to Eudora at work :wink:

Cheers,
Edward