What is everyone's opinion on a good solid email program, I'm talking a power user, or big business, just a normal home PC user.

I prefer Pocomail 4 as it has what I consider the best Spam filter and customizable interface and speed.

If you want a lot of smileys, backgrounds to use and well just fix up your emails, then Incredimail is good with a nice clean interface, but it's a huge program and power hog.

Thunderbird I think is a nice small simple one if your needs are simple.

What does anyone else think :)

Yahoo! Mail

http://mail.yahoo.com

I have NEVER received spam with Yahoo!

I have tried Yahoo,

But in my case, I like just a little more in my email than what it offers, Yahoo is only slightly more than my own internet Providers online web based email.

If that's all you need, is just something simple to receive and send email, Yahoo is fine, but I like a little more, not a lot, but more, than web based mail, like Yahoo, and Gmail and others similar to them can offer.

I guess it all depends on your needs, and tastes.:o

I agree, it all depends on ones needs and tastes.

Curious, you say you want "more" from your email program. What do you mean by "more"?

It's difficult to explain, but I don't like the feel of web based Email, they are slightly more difficult to maneuver in, that a separate program, and at times, some are harder to read, and to get to your settings, preferences, and such items are harder, to do, and also making new folders and doing small things, can be more difficult.

And the interfaces are just to me not as user friendly overall, I like more control, to contorl, the Color, the Fonts, size and such, the size, the abilitly to see more of my emails, more of my folders< I ve made and such, your limited with such things in web based mail, you generally take what they give you, with just a few options.

Nice discussing this with you, have a goodnight, I am off to bed

I love Eudora Light. It's not web-based, it's free, very customizable and easy to use. The Light version has a very small ad in the corner that's easy to ignore. The paid version has no ads. I don't work for them, I'm just a very satisfied user. http://www.eudora.com

Thunderbird I think is a nice small simple one if your needs are simple.

I go with Thunderbird but I wouldn't call it simple. It has all the features I could ever think of and if it doesn't, well then you can just download an extension for it from the official site (https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=thunderbird).

I use Outlook.

I also use Outlook Express, and Gmail. Gmail is from Google, and it's only web-based email that I've liked so far, and I've tried several. It's only available by invitation right now, but if you would like me to send you an invitation, let me know.

I quite like Gmail as well. It's got some useful features but at the same time some annoying limitations. For example. You click on "Compose Mail" but there's no option to select contacts from your contact list. Instead you have to remember to go via contacts, select who you want, then hit compose. That annoys me a little.

Yes I agree that's annoying! There are a couple of other annoying qualities of it too that escape me at the moment. But overall I like it better than the others I've tried (MSN, Yahoo... ), plus I like the fact that there are no pop-ups or banner ads. I hate those things!!

For simple email that you can use with your service providers email address, I always use Outlook... Its simple and you can store your contacts and see your folders and so on.:D

I have used MSN and Yahoo the only webmail that seems OK was Lycos mail, I have to agree with other posters Yahoo seemed to be the best at not getting spammed for webmail. MSN I used to go away for the weekend come back and there where like 300 emails all junk pmpl

For simple email that you can use with your service providers email address, I always use Outlook... Its simple and you can store your contacts and see your folders and so on.:D

I have used MSN and Yahoo the only webmail that seems ok was Lycos mail, I have to agree with other posters Yahoo seemed to be the best at not getting spammed for webmail. MSN I used to go away for the weekend come back and there where like 300 emails all junk pmpl

What e-mail address you use and what e-mail client you use are too different things. The address is just a way to route the e-mail to your online mailbox. The e-mail client is used to retrieve the mail from that mailbox, to organize mail and to send mail.

For basic e-mail ANY e-mail client is simple. They all are pretty much the same. You click on New or Compose to send a mail. You click on the message in a folder to read it. You click Reply to reply and Forward to send to someone else.

I like Outlook 2003 because of its built in spam blocking, its extensive rules, its integration of contact list and calendar.

One also needs to realize that Outlook and Outlook Express are different programs.

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I also like/use Gmail. I use it with Outlook and my ISP's email.
(Gotta love the freebies from Google)

Actually this could be divided into 2 categories, web based email and stand alone programs.

I am still using Netscape 4.8. I love its powerful, friendly spell check. I wrote this just like all my AMHD posts in it. Much better than the Macrocrap like one in the newer versions. Of course, whatever your are used to always seems the easiest. Someday I may get around to looking at Thunderbird. I think it is available for Linux. One problem with NS is that it also includes an old browser I seldom use.

I can't undersigned why anybody uses the viruses' favorite, Outlook. I never do any virus scans or any of that nonsense, and never had a problem either on this Linux box, or the old Mac.

I can't undersigned why anybody uses the viruses' favorite, Outlook.

This is not trying to convice anyone to use Outlook, but I have never gotten a virus on any of my home systems, and I've been using Outlook as my e-mail client since Office 97. I use the Preview pane as well.

I like Outlook because of the extensive integration with Office and with my PDA.

I use E-Trust A/V which does real time scanning for viruses in e-mail (it has blocked viruses a couple of times). I also keep Outlook up-to-date with security patches.

I don't dispute that Outlook is a favorite target of virus writers. But its not a vulnerable as its rep.

I like MSOutlook, use it on every computer. When I get a new computer I use Outlook Express until I can get MSOutlook installed. I believe there are some web based email programs, (Yahoo being one) that will not download to Outlook. Of course I may just be used to MSOutlook, been using it for years at work.

For receiving mail, I use Yahoo and organize in folders. I pay for the premium though and have 2 GB space.
To create mail to send as attachments, I use MS Office, MS Publisher, and even Adobe Acrobat Professional to create unique mail with nice graphics for special occasions, and use my collection of special borders and frames of which some I create myself with PaintShopPro9 - just like to play with 'pretty' things.



http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_11_7.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZN)I also like to include smileys and animated gifs, not to mention the zillion different fonts.

Since I posted I realized how convenient it is to use my email program as a text editor. I have 2 windows open on this desktop. This compose window, and my inbox. I have always on cable internet and NS set to check mail every 10 minutes. Thus, with all the time I spend writing answers here and elsewhere, I can quickly see when I have an email. Most of my emails relate to the life I have outside the net and often take priority. When I finish my answer, I click on the desktop where I have Konquerpor open and paste it into the box with one middle click.

Of course I doubt emoticons etc. are available for NS 4.8, but I don't miss them. The one feature I haven't found with it is ''Undisclosed Recipients'' Everybody else doesn't all the addresses of everybody I send everything. I have told people not to forward me things if they can't do it without sharing my address with 100 strangers. I make do with bcc, a kludge I think was available in 1992 when I was using Mikeyterm to access Delphi at 300 baud. NS requires at least 1 to, so I often send things to myself and bcc everyone else.

Eudora is the best as far as I'm concerned. Check it out at:

http://eudora.com/email/features/index.html

Hope this helps!
Whiskey14

I also use Outlook in conunction with GMail. My ISP email account and GMail accounts all come into my Outlook mailbox and I keep all my Calendar and Contacts in one spot. I also carry a Blackberry so that I can access those items while I'm mobile.

I also use Outlook in conunction with GMail. My ISP email account and GMail accounts all come into my Outlook mailbox and I keep all my Calendar and Contacts in one spot. I also carry a Blackberry so that I can access those items while I'm mobile.
Welcome to the forum!
Love your name, it makes me want to go out and get a sub-sandwich.
Hope you enjoy this forum as much as we do.

Eudora is a very good one, and also it depends on what your particular tastes and needs are, I use to have Eudora for many years, but now I think Pocomail is better, it's spam filter by far supior to Eudora and easier to use, and the customization ability you have for Poco is better, as far as what you see, the look and color and design of the interface, and side by side, Poco downloads your email at a much faster rate than any I have tried, and Eudora is starting to get a little crowded on it's interface and it's size.

I think it will be better you try Eudora and MS Outlook. There is another one which is compatible with MS Outlook. It is INCREDIMAIL. It has got add-ins for MS Outlook. Please note that it does not have some options like resending the message which you can do with outlook but it has got lots of other features like Beautiful Styles and Stationeries. There are plenty of emoticons and various mail notifiers which you can choose. Try and find out which one is of your taste. OUTLOOK, EUDORA AND INCREDIMAIL.

HI Shaved, why did you not include Pocomail in your final 3 or 4 choices.

Incredimail is a big progam and hard to get off your system when you want it out, although it is very good, it does have some problems.

I had a difficult time getting it to backup my files and then put them back into a new install, and their tech support, took forever to get back with me and still offered little help.

Hi,
I did not recommend to use Incredimail. I told first to try Eudora and MS Outlook and mentioned about Incredimail. It was only my opinion and all you guys are open for your suggestions. Wendy have already posted your feeling about Pocomail. I tried it but was not happy which could be strictly personal liking or disliking. Let them try all and chose whichever they like.

I am curious what it was about Poco you did not like, since it clearly has the best spam filter, and you can customize the look and feel of the interface to suit your colors, fonts, and sizes and such, and it is laid out, almost exactly like the others mentioned and in most tests, it gets your email to you faster than the others can download, so that's why I was curious what you did not personally like about it, since if your looking at them all, the interfaces are generally setup in the same manner, just different icons and colors and things.

They could all actually be the same program with different skins, just minor differences as you look at them, but yet Poco is the only one that really lets you change the scheme of things.

Thanks

OH almost forgot, if you anyone reads my initial comments here, they will see that I suggest your choice of email program will depend on your personal needs, not a single suggestion by anyone, I needed an email program that was flexible, that I could change the look and feel of it myself, with a strong spam filter, and still retain the look of Eudora, and Incredimail, both of which I had previously used, and also get my mail from the server as fast as possible, along with some other extra emailing options, in the end, that's why I chose Pocomail, over the others, because it contained all or most of what I needed, if I could combine them, all I would have the perfect email program.

For many people, web based mail, like Yahoo and Gmail work fine, or Eudora lite, or MS express and such, it all depends on your personal needs in a program.

Hi,
As I mentioned it is strictly personal. Did I tell Poco is bad? Liking and disliking such programs depends on the person who is using it. We cannot insist it on others but we can suggest. In reality I tried all of them and now I am using MS Outlook 2003.

To labman - In Incredimail, to have Undisclosed-Recipients appear in the To field, just type Undisclosed-Recipients<[email protected]> in that field. It's your own address between the special signs. List your addressees in the bcc field.

Dear Shaved,

I liked Poco and gave some good points on it, I personally tested about 7 of the top rated email programs and overall Poco had better features and customizing ability, it also had by far the best spam filter, you said it was bad, but you did not state what was bad about it, maybe you just had trouble on your computer, or you did not like the interface, but offer some type of indepth comment on what was bad about it, I compared it to MS outlook and Poco easily has many more features, yet has all the things Outlook has, but only Poco is more easily customized and as I mentioned a much better and more comprehensive and easier to use spam filter, so although its personal preference, Poco does more than most and better.

If you do have any conflicts when using Poco, it's most likely caused by incompatibility with your Virus software, so you have to rework it, and Poco offers that help.

What is everyone's opinion on a good solid email program, I'm talking a power user, or big business, just a normal home PC user.

I prefer Pocomail 4 as it has what I consider the best Spam filter and customizable interface and speed.

If you want a lot of smileys, backgrounds to use and well just fix up your emails, then Incredimail is good with a nice clean interface, but it's a huge program and power hog.

Thunderbird I think is a nice small simple one if your needs are simple.

What does anyone else think :)

We are using MS Outlook as mail client and to filter spam - Spam Bully, a plugin for Outlook.