Good email program?

[Red October1984]

Sick of using Chrome to open my email...since I use it a lot, figure I should use a program so I can have it running separately from my browser. Any recommendations?

[Onkel Neal]

Microsoft Outlook.

[Red October1984]

:up: I'll look at it.

EDIT: Really don't like the way Microsoft tries to suck you into that whole "sync everything together with one account" idea. I'd prefer to not.

[Wolferz]

What about your ISP? Do they provide any type of e-mail access on their website?

Mine does.:yeah:

[Onkel Neal]

:up: I'll look at it.

EDIT: Really don't like the way Microsoft tries to suck you into that whole "sync everything together with one account" idea. I'd prefer to not.

Oh yeah? That was my idea. Bill wanted to go with disconnected products but I talked him out of it.

[Herr-Berbunch]

EDIT: Really don't like the way Microsoft tries to suck you into that whole "sync everything together with one account" idea. I'd prefer to not.

:har: I'm sorry, you know who makes Chrome don't you? That's right, the kings of single-account access.

[daft]

I use Opera Mail and Thunderbird. I like both. Feels much more lightweight compared to Outlook (which also feels very much like work). :)

[AVGWarhawk]

Outlook or what is known as Live Mail. Works fine for me. Do not have to sync anything if you don't want to.

[Catfish]

Hi,
for private use you could take Thunderbird, which is relatively easy to set up and work with, and it is free.

For professional use there can only be Outlook, much more options than Thunderbird and unbeatable with Microsoft Exchange Server..
But you can use it privately as stand-alone without Exchange, and it still has lots of useful functions, from archiving to backup, to notices of absence, and a full scale calendar with reminders (and a lot more). Even if you think you do not need it, believe me you soon will.

And i have come to like MS a lot more, since i understand what the fuzz is all about. To hell with Apple and Google! :03:

[sturmer]

i use incredimail, you have a free version and a pro version

[I'mOnABoat]

Yeah, for my personal email address I'm still on gmail and it is obviously a kind of "one account to rule your whole life" kind of deal. For business, though, I wanted something a little more professional, so I went with the email address services from 1&1 (http://www.1and1.co.uk/email-address) which you can also merge to outlook if you want to monitor multiple accounts. I've had a good experience.

[GT182]

Outlook or what is known as Live Mail. Works fine for me. Do not have to sync anything if you don't want to.

Same here. Tho I'm still using Hotmail thru Outlook. Either is good and I've been using Hotmail for years with no problems. The only thing is you can only send the max of 10MBs in a file at a time. To get around this I use DropBox, and with it you can send any size file you want.

[Onkel Neal]

try Outlook.

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[Skybird]

Thunderbird. Why getting stuff from Microsoft and by that help them to keep strong in business? They don't deserve it.

Also, regarding the mentioned more options in Outlook - consider whether you really need all these for your purposes.

[d@rk51d3]

Does Thunderbird have the ability to delete emails yet? Not just hide them. Delete them.

[Skybird]

Not sure I know what you mean. Of course I can delete emails. Even without needing to open them (marking them for deletion does not open them).

And this, maybe?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_messages_in_IMAP_accounts

P.S. I used it under Windows before, now under Linux. Both work(ed) well.

[Rockin Robbins]

I agree with Neal. One thing I've found out about MS web-based e-mail is that it attracts spam from EVERYWHERE. I only use my Hotmail account to register for spam sites and never look at it except to just delete everything every couple of months.

Random spam just doesn't come to my ISP account using Thunderbird. There's no substitute for an e-mail program that lives on your machine, not on the web, and where e-mails are downloaded to your machine, not left out there in the cloud.

Linux has a crowd of excellent e-mail programs (Thunderbird is an import from Linux, by the way). You could have a small Linux installation using WUBI so Linux is just a subdirectory in Windows. You don't have to reboot at all, just use Windows and Linux at the same time. Then you have a selection of over a dozen great locally resident e-mail programs. I'd list 'em but I'm away from home.

[d@rk51d3]

Not sure I know what you mean. Of course I can delete emails. Even without needing to open them (marking them for deletion does not open them).

And this, maybe?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_messages_in_IMAP_accounts

P.S. I used it under Windows before, now under Linux. Both work(ed) well.



AFAIK, they don't actually delete. They just get archived in a hidden file that just gets bigger and bigger, wasting space on your HDD.

[Skybird]

Not that I know of. And judging by experience with size of email-archives when migrating or saving such archives intentionally, I would not mind for the size of these files. Considering the size of modern HD, my past migration archives/backup archives, were microscopic, sub-nuclear.

But I do not tell this with guaranteed certainty. As I said, I hear your claim for the first time ever. I used the available options in Thunderbird to set things up as secure and conservative as possible, to my best knowledge. And you can have different options for every email box/adress you use with it.

[Rockin Robbins]

Absolutely! Never forget that all e-mail lives in on-line servers. In order to securely handle them you should set up your e-mail client to download e-mails to your machine and then delete them from the server. If you want you can let them live for a week so your mobile devices don't get into a catfight.

If your computer, laptop, tablet and cell phone are all set up to download and delete from server, the first device that grabs it is the only one where you can see the e-mail. It becomes a game of "who hid the cheese." So let them live for a minimal amount of time to ensure that all devices have the same e-mails and then delete them with a schedule on the server.