Good email program?

[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!

[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 which you can also merge to outlook if you want to monitor multiple accounts. I've had a good experience.

[GT182]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by obalouafi

try Outlook.

[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.

[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.