why do you use what you do and the pros and cons. Just curious!
Oops! had to edit cause I misspelled curious!
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| Posted by: CelticRose 04-May-2007, 12:11 AM |
| Do you use Outlook Express, MSN, Mozilla thunderbird or another? why do you use what you do and the pros and cons. Just curious! Oops! had to edit cause I misspelled curious! |
| Posted by: MDF3530 04-May-2007, 03:34 PM |
None of the above. I use Yahoo's web-based email  . |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 04-May-2007, 04:52 PM |
| Thunderbird! 1) it's Open Source, so I can custom build it for my system 2) It has great support for my multiple POP3 E-mail accounts 3) It's Linux native 4) It's relatively bloat free 5) It's pretty easy to use 6) It uses a pretty standard interface with all the common tools and functions easilly accessable 7) Great support for extentions to easilly add functionality 8) Not succeptable to Virii written to exploit Microsoft Outlook (And completely immune to most modern virii under Linux) some cons: 1) Getting it to behave properly and launch Firefox in my environment is a PITA 2) no good support for RSS feeds 3) requires quite a bit of desktop space to use effectively 4) adding several names from the contact list can be rather tedious if you actually want to respect privacy and use bcc. |
| Posted by: Madadh 05-May-2007, 03:00 AM |
| I use thunderbird as well. I find it is an adaquate email program and I can get a version for both Linux (my use) and Windows (my wife's use). |
| Posted by: CelticRose 06-May-2007, 02:34 AM |
| Wow! Thanks so much! I was considering using Mozilla Thunderbird but was very interested in the pros and cons. Thanks so much, Aaediwen. Looking forward to hearing more what others use and why they like them. |
| Posted by: Sekhmet 06-May-2007, 02:35 PM |
| Yep, I use Thunderbird when I'm not on gmail. |
| Posted by: Rebecca Ann 06-May-2007, 02:56 PM |
| We use Outlook. We haven't had too much trouble with it. It's been pretty good. Also have a yahoo account which I don't use much. RebeccaAnn |
| Posted by: TandVh 07-Jul-2007, 05:08 PM |
| We use Eudora at home. Simply because it's a free edition and it's third party to Microsoft so not as much trouble with disgruntled hackers getting into it. I use Outlook at work because we have our own mail server - MS Exchange and outlook is seamless with that server. |
| Posted by: Donajhi 07-Jul-2007, 06:07 PM |
Outlook here..  |
| Posted by: Lady of Avalon 07-Jul-2007, 07:06 PM |
| We use Outlook and I have one with hotmail as well. |
| Posted by: Robert Phoenix 07-Jul-2007, 10:30 PM |
| Outlook but we have a cable connection so I go right to the cable company site and check it there. Less of a wait time and I don't have to worry to much about what's infecting my computer |
| Posted by: Avonlea22 10-Jul-2007, 02:37 PM |
| Thunderbird. I use it just so I don't have to use an MS product! |
| Posted by: Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas 11-Jul-2007, 06:18 AM |
| Outlook at work (no choice) Thunderbird at home (for all the reasons stated by others) Flexmail 2007 on Motorola Q (much better than M$ Messaging) |
| Posted by: Drothgord 11-Jul-2007, 06:33 AM |
| I use evolution on my Linux computer because it's simple and lightweight. And very reliable. On my Windows comp. i use Thunderbird, mostly for the same reasons. At work i use outlook, because we have many own functions integrated to it.. It is actually really good software for work even it's micro$oft. It has many good features the others doesn't, but those features are not needed home... so.. |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 11-Jul-2007, 04:07 PM |
| Building a 64 bit Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 as we speak. I hope it works as well as my current 32 bit Tbird |
| Posted by: Drothgord 11-Jul-2007, 11:19 PM |
| Ah, i wish my comp at home worked. I need the bloody money to buy a new one. I wanna try the 2.0.0.0 too. Btw Aaediwen, little out of the topic here but which linux distribution do you use?  |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 12-Jul-2007, 05:06 PM |
| Linux From Scratch, and Cross Linux From Scratch Here's the home page for what I just built: http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ More specifically: http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.0.0/ (the current one I'm working on is a x86_64 multilib) I have a Sparc64 Pure 64 bit build on my U60, and a standard 32 bit x86 LFS ( http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ ) on my server |
| Posted by: Drothgord 12-Jul-2007, 10:37 PM |
| Hmm thanks, i didn't know that this kind of thing was out there. Sounds actually interesting, i could even learn something from it. I'll write those links down and try them when i get my server back. |
| Posted by: kb0iic 13-Jul-2007, 07:16 PM |
| I use Mail.app in OS X. Specifically, I download all my mail from various accounts with fetchmail and filter with procmail using Maildir with my Sun E420R in Solaris 10. Then I use IMAP to connect to the dovecot server I built in Solaris using Mail.app with my Powerbook G4. Fun stuff. Sincerely, William |
| Posted by: Monarchs Own 14-Jul-2007, 09:17 AM |
| I use Incredimail. I love that I can have so many customized Notifiers. Each of my friends has their own notifier so I know who send me an e-mail before I even checked my inbox. It's a pretty cool program. |
| Posted by: cylassie 02-Sep-2007, 06:26 AM |
| I hate Outlook, have to use it at work. Ugh. I LOVE Gmail and all things Google, Google Docs, Products (Froogle), Photos via Picasa2 . . . |
| Posted by: Tengîl 25-Sep-2007, 05:19 AM |
| Evolution-E-mail for one reason: -it's unix Just like it, because it's frontend is similar to Outlook. So i had an easy time after changing my OS. |