Comments on: Top 5 Email Client For Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Users

By: EnglishProf

EnglishProf — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:05:14 +0000

What did the entire post say? @vyvyan, If I postmy address, will you send me some of what you smoked before you posted?

By: WeB DiZaJN

WeB DiZaJN — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:31:06 +0000

I like Thunderbird, many plugin and themes that can make it more useful.
:)

By: Badr Najah

Badr Najah — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:11:59 +0000

I don’t like thunderbird no more.
I am disappointed with Mozilla them releasing a new version everyday and I have to update.
I am not a Microsoft fan. but I agree with Steve Newbauer that Outlook is better. it has a better interface than all other email clients and more options and customizations.

Thanks for the article anyways

By: Steve Newbauer

Steve Newbauer — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:08:00 +0000

I have tried nearly all of them and all I can say is none of them come close to Outlook Express. I have been sorely disappointed in other email programs.

By: huh

huh — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:28:50 +0000

What are you serious?
Who’s using it people? Im stuck as I was using evolution but looking at alternative. But KMAIL?

By: Sai

Sai — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:27:42 +0000

Thank you very much for your nice review! I was really looking to switch from Thunderbird; Zimbra fit the bill perfectly–I like the interface much better than Thunderbird or Evolution.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:51:53 +0000

I seem to be in a minority here, but I like for my email client to simply do email. If I want to look at a web site, I should use a web browser. If I want to look at an RSS feed, I should use a RSS Reader. If I want to IM somebody, I should use an IM client.

I never wanted my email to look like a website. The fact so much email is written in XHTML/XML is astounding and frankly irritating. Email should be simple text so it can be downloaded quickly.

My personal email client of choice is Mutt with one caveat: For the occasional meeting invitation sent by an Exchange server, I will fire up Thunderbird with Lightening to answer it, and then close it immediately since it is wasting so much RAM with it’s bloated “trying to do everything” architecture.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:59:01 +0000

Just passing through. You say here that Thunderbird supports POP3 accounts… My main email is a POP3 and no matter how I try to set it up with Thunderbird it is not recognized. Other clients work well though! ;)

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:01:27 +0000

Hello Umberto,

I was reading your article and it supplied me with a lot of useful infomation but maybe you can help me with the fiollowing issue.

I am intending to buy a QNAP ts-219 NAS-server wich has an embedded Linux OS. My idea is to use this NAS also for collecting my Email with an POP3 Mua like Claws.
I have 2 main questions; can I use Claws with this embedded Linux version and secondly does Claws itself has an option to deleted the collected mail after a certain time periode of, for example 1 hour, instead of straight away after errorfree collecting the mail.

I hope you can and wll help me because my Linux knowledge isn’t that up to date anymore ;-)

Have a nice weekend,

Greets Hans van Leeuwen

By: Mama

Mama — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:41:01 +0000

I suggest getting a good book on English and learning it again.

By: James Freer

James Freer — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:30:03 +0000

For text email client requirements. The fastest i found was Cone… simple install compared with Mutt and more features than Alpine.

Not a well known one but worth a look.

By: Aubrey Baker

Aubrey Baker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:24:23 +0000

Personally I like using Sparrow. It is a very clean and simple email client. I suppose if you are trying to do more complicated things it wont suffice, but for day to day emailing I love it. I fall back to Thunderbird when I have to send out HTML newsletters.

By: Mike O

Mike O — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:40:45 +0000

Peace Brother… ;) I like that

By: Mike O

Mike O — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:16:08 +0000

Yes, I see how old this thread is, but this is still an issue especially now with Win 7. I use Eudora 8, Previously I used Eudora 5.2 (and earlier versions) forever ago. I stayed with it due to the way it saved emails / contacts. I still have all my info from over 15 years ago. That said; the ‘new’ Eudora is certainly NOT the same as it was, the filters are VERY buggy, and it is basically a ‘spin-off’ of Thunderbird, so I have heard. I use it in Win7 64. I am looking for a magic program, One I can import all my stuff into, one that works on Win7 64, and Ubuntu, one with a collaborative calendar, and… Hey what about Lotus Notes… LOL, ok, Just kidding

By: Norman Scott

Norman Scott — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:57:20 +0000

I have used Thunderbird now for about a week and find 2 things annoying:
1. It will not jump to an email embedded URL.
2. It has no provisions for adding Groups to individual addresses.

By: Lani Hines

Lani Hines — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:10:23 +0000

I’m just glad to hear Entourage 8 is on the way man! Can’t get enough

By: Anthony Ruffell

Anthony Ruffell — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:19:00 +0000

Found Postbox 2.1.4

Have used in last 6 years MS Entourage on both our Apple Macs.
Updated to MS Office from Office 2004 to 2008 when I sported myself and bought a MacBook Pro. Entourage worked as normal. Had a very occasional attacks of ‘msititis’ but otherwise usable.
However MS offered a free update to MS Office 2010 for Mac. I should have known then that anything offered for free by MS is possibly suspect.
Discovered that although Word, Excel & Powerpoint were updated there was no update for MS Entourage. All that was on offer for an email Apps was MS Outlook. This was on a short term basis for free and then MS wanted over £100.
As it happened the free trial of Outlook never worked.
I reverted back to Entourage 2004 but soon found that it had been blighted.
Kept getting white outs of any email which failed to display.
Reinstalling Entourage 2008 was blocked cos’ it said I had a later version of Office [2010] installed.
After much wasted time went back to Apple Mail which does work – not too upmarket but gets the job done.
Found Postbox 2.1.4 which was sort of recommended by Apple Website.
It is an improved version of Thunderbird not an Apple Product.
Installed it and it has many clever facilities but really have not got time to learn.
Bit too clever – failed to get SpamSeive to work on Postbox.
So I am going back to Apple Mail.
Simple but safe.
Any spare time to play might revert back to Entourage 2004 – to see if it will play still

Anthony. 19th March 2011

By: LM

LM — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:24:57 +0000

If you’re interested in security and avoiding viruses sent by e-mail, the safest way to go is a text only e-mail client. Both alpine and Slypheed are best bets for that case.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:39:25 +0000

Hell o Chris.
I agree with the reccomendation of Thunderbird.
It will import data from almost any exported system.
I can’t tell you much about Outlook or Outlook Express as I ditched Microsoft years ago.
I went Linux soon as I found a good accunting program.
Actually been using Linux since 1996 but kept a MicroSnot system for Quiken.
NO MORE!
I have several usable accounting software packages.
Some I’m working on are server based but in the mean time I have moved to GNU-Cash and never looked back and removed all MicroSnot software via fdisk and install or just trashed the hard drives and upgraded to larger RAID Arrays with CentOS. Since GNU-Cash has a very robust import function, Not only Quiken versions, but MicroSnot Money and professional banking abilities it finally got the monkey off my back.
With all that said I’ve used Evolution for several years but it seems the more it evolves into newer flasher prettier etc the more crash and crap it brings so I recently, “about a year ago” installed Thunderbird and imported all my stuff.
The only missing item is a calander and task list.
No problem I run my own CentOS server with and SMTP and POP3/IMAP.
No problem because I added a calander to the server so don’t need Evolution crashes for a calander any more.
If you use evolution I suggest you export all your info at least once a week because Evolution will go belley up. Probably sooner than later.
Then all you have to do is remove it and re install it and import your stuff.
Better yet install Thunderbird and import it.
Thunderbird has a great Baysian SPAM filter and with a couple hundred good emails and likewise for SPAM email it will be pretty smart.
Since I have my own email server and runn spamassassin I get very little SPAM but Thunderbird takes care of 90% of what gets through.
It also filters pretty well for scams and such.
Nothing is perfect and layering you’re system can save you a lot of time in the long run.
Your own email server is now only an hour or so work and the benefits are great.
Besides that you can impress your MicroSnot friends by giving them email accounts on your very own server.
You can be a hero at the church giving free accounts to those who can’t afford it.
I have, “being an old Amateur Radio, Civil Defense guy” a 100 ft radio tower I built for Civil Defense and now have two 803.11 systems up.
One I use for wireless service for the neighborhood kids that can’t afford Internet and the two churches in the neighborhood.
I have the other 802.11 system on the Amateur Radio channels and running the Amateur allowed power, “my ERP is about 350 watts” for the local Amateur Radio Club Civil Defense members.
Gives an old retired ISP owner something to do.
One observation.
Seems the prettier, more bells and whistles etc the more it crashes.
Thunderbird has yet to gig me but Evolution was gitting to be a real kludge.

See ya

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:16:26 +0000

Uhhhhhhh……. what did you say in the last three line of gibberish?