What email program?

[miketoro]

What email program do you guys use?

I've used Outlook Express 6, happily, forever now. But I'm going to W7 soon. I used the Windows Live Mail program in the W7 RC and wasn't so happy with it.

I've thought about Opera, but don't know much about it. I need something that can check an IMAP account, hotmail and at least two gmail accounts.

Any suggestions appreciated,

m.

[Harryc]

I like/use Thunderbird. It does everthing that you require and more.

[Neil]

I use web-mail exclusively, so that I can access my mail from the three or more different computers I use during the day.

[GomJabbar]

I use SeaMonkey. It has everything all rolled into one. Browser, email, chat, & html editor. Mostly I just use it for email, but I do use the browser on occasion. My preferred browser is Opera. I have been sticking with Netscape Communicator 7.2 (which is where SeaMonkey sprouted from) and SeaMonkey for some years now. SeaMonkey just had it's first major upgrade to 2.0 a few weeks ago to incorporate the Firefox engine. There are some changes, but the menus are still the same. I like SeaMonkey because it has been a stable and kept it's original format for a long time. There have been security updates every few months, but other than this last upgrade, thats been about it. SeaMonkey supports pop3 and imap.

[dr_st]

Yeah, I don't use email clients really. Webmail for my private accounts, and Outlook (not express) for company email, because that is what we use. But since I use it all the time, it was convenient for me to forward my private email to that as well.

[ArtShapiro]

I use the full Outlook 2003. It's certainly industrial strength, and lets me easily manage the five separate accounts I need for my wife and myself. It's easy to construct rules to direct incoming mail into our respective mailboxes. With the SpamBayes addin, I rarely see the myriad of junk messages that I observe in the web interface.

On the other hand, it crashes several times a week, but at least comes back up OK. For a Micro$oft product, I guess that's within the bounds of acceptability.

Art

[bill bolton]

Forte Agent v5.... I've been using Agent since v1 and its always been rock solid for me, and it integrates readily with Fire Trust's Mailwasher as well.

Cheers,

Bill B.

[mattbiernat]

gmail basic HTML theme, simply because it is unclutered, fast to load and i can access my email from anywhere.

[JaneL]

I gave up on desktop clients for personal use a while back after a few HDD crashes. Regular Gmail and also Gmail for Apps with my own domain. Backups at Hotmail and Yahoo!.

[Temetka]

I used to use Outlook (not express) for years and it is a great app. I stopped using it because I multi-boot and unless I create a shared partition to store the .PST files and outlook data files then I cannot check my e-mail when I am booted into the OS of the moment. Couple that with 2 laptops a tower or 3 and you see the problem. So now it's mainly gmail with the important stuff being downloaded to an SD card.

[Sandstorm83]

Outlook 2007 is more than a great email app. I can connect to my school email using Exchange and can also connect to my ISP email using POP3. It also has a great tasks and calendar function to list any appointments or assignments due. Very easy to setup and use.

Whats the worst email program Ive had to use? Lotus Notes at work. I still have nightmares over it freezing and crashing my work computer...

[fasterbybike]

Used Forte Agent until 6 months ago. Now use Thunderbird with my own mail server (Argosoft).

[NorrisCell]

+1 for Thunderbird. Outlook 2003 is nice as well, but it has had some glitches in the past which kept me from going back to it. Using my Gmail as an IMAP server with TB gives me universal access between my computer and any one of my dozen phones I keep on hand.

[beGi]

Outlook 2003 is good enough for me...

[georgelam]

Thunderbird!

[Puppy]

I'm also happy user of Outlook Express and I've been exploring some alternatives on W7. Don't even try the Windows Live Mail because that's a bad joke. It looks like an Outlook Express 0.2 beta version. Microsoft seems to force people to buy MS Office just for Outlook now. Thunderbird is good alternative and seems to be mature enough for real use because its early performance issues are resolved. You have a lot of plugins to extend its functionality, including calendar etc.

[A31]

Outlook 2007, did have Outlook 2010 Beta but was nowhere near as good as the Outlook 2007 I know and love!
Use it on both the ThinkPad and the ThinkCentre

[ThinkRob]

Evolution.

It works. It works well. It can sync with all my devices via SyncML (free over-the-air sync to/from my phone, all my laptops, and even my Nokia tablet -- beat that MobileMe!)

[TTY]

Mulberry. It's free, i installed it a few weeks ago just for the fun of trying out something new.

[jronald]

Work is Outlook 2007
My personal is Outlook 2003
My 8 year old is Thunderbird
That said, I have fought the rules in both Outlooks for hours, and not have them work correctly. Thunderbird rules are much easier to set and forget. If I was not tied to the Outlook at work, it would be Tbird, all the way.

Ron

[AIX]

Thunderbird @ work/office for the last 3 years (I used PINE for 6 years before Thunderbird). Personal - I rely on webmail to keep up with my e-mails.

[Morgano]

Kmail. Because it is the default in KDE, and have all functionality i need for multiple acounts of IMAP and POP. It just works and feels nice to me. I also tried Evolution, Balsa, Thunderbird, Opera (the in-buolt mail client) but got back to Kmail (still on KDE 3) When i used MSWindows back 2006 i had been using Eudora pro for many years.

[ThinkRob]

Kmail. Because it is the default in KDE, and have all functionality i need for multiple acounts of IMAP and POP. It just works and feels nice to me. I also tried Evolution, Balsa, Thunderbird, Opera (the in-buolt mail client) but got back to Kmail (still on KDE 3) When i used MSWindows back 2006 i had been using Eudora pro for many years.

Kontact (which includes KMail) is by far my favorite PIM. The only reason I don't use it on a daily basis is due to its lack of support for SyncEvolution. What little support there is is highly buggy, and it lacks the nice level of integration that SyncEvolution + Genesis + Evolution can give me. If I didn't have to rely on some form of SyncML support to keep everything synchronized, I'd switch to Kontact in a heartbeat.

[comptechexpert]

I would go with outlook then thunderbird then seamonkey.

[trent9008]

Thunderbird. No webmail provider that I know of supports PGP, and there's no officially sanctioned Outlook extension for it that I know of. (Besides, my main OS is Arch Linux, and mutt just doesn't cut it with multiple IMAP accounts...)

[yak]

Thunderbird +1

[ThinkRob]

Thunderbird. No webmail provider that I know of supports PGP, and there's no officially sanctioned Outlook extension for it that I know of. (Besides, my main OS is Arch Linux, and mutt just doesn't cut it with multiple IMAP accounts...)

Have you looked into Evolution? Its got excellent, well-integrated S/MIME and GPG support, along with solid support for IMAP.

It might be a bit heavy for just a Thunderbird replacement (although Thunderbird isn't exactly light on resources now that I think about it), but since you mentioned Outlook I figured you might be interested in a PIM to replace it -- and that's exactly what Evolution was designed to do.