Which Email Client ?

[The Jackal]

Guys n Dolls,

What Email client do you use ?

I wanna use thunderbird so that I can use RSS and not have to log onto this dumpsh*te all the time . However it crashed my laptop... Gonna try it on this pc to see if I get anymore joy.

Alternative suggestions welcome. As per usual it needs to handle BIG IMAP mailboxes..
Please dont laff mines 1.5Gig :
root mailhost:/home/xxxx/Maildir> du -ks .
1576720 .

[Halcyon]

I use Thunderbird.
One of the best programs I have used together with Firefox.

[Graham M]

Thunderbird here too

[allanprg]

I use Thunderbird as well as Firefox. Been using them for some years now. Have to say they are great. I have Outlook and Outlook Express on my machine but have always prefered Thunderbird.

[jellybaby]

If its RSS feeds you're after then why not use firefox for your RSS feeds. Thats what I do

[The Jackal]

Slowly converting :

Thus far so good we'll see how it pans out.... It's having difficulty with my mailboxes but once it's downloaded all the the headers it seems to whip along.

There is a little lag switching between folders but its not too bad think its very similiar to teh lag I got with Outlook Express

One thing thats already pee'd be off is that you can't drag n drop rss feeds sraight into thunderbird maybe theres a plugin/extension to do this ?

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Originally Posted by jellybaby

If its RSS feeds you're after then why not use firefox for your RSS feeds. Thats what I do

It doesn't alert you or maybe it does ? and I want an archive not that theres anything interesting to save from here

HEH Kiddin boys

---------- Post added at 14:09 ---------- Previous post was at 13:58 ----------

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

One thing thats already pee'd be off is that you can't drag n drop rss feeds sraight into thunderbird maybe theres a plugin/extension to do this ?

You can dumb ass what a n00b.
DOH

[pedantic]

Opera

Built in rss reader (with alerts when you get new feeds)
Built in Newsreader
Built in email client..........

But I personally use Pegasus email, much safer than most email clients around.

I hate pop mail and dont use it
I have no need for rss and if I did recieving this isnt a problem and I use newsbin for my newsreader.So email for me is simply hotmail

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I hate pop mail and dont use it
I have no need for rss

IMAP is your friend. Especially if you have massive folders like me which you wanna access from anywhere anyplace

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Originally Posted by pedantic

Opera

Built in rss reader (with alerts when you get new feeds)
Built in Newsreader
Built in email client..........

But I personally use Pegasus email, much safer than most email clients around.

Heh Pegasus now there a blast from the past aint used that for like almost 13 years.

Built in rss, nntp, smtp with opera ? Sounds overkill and with thunderbird already struggling with my mail alone what chance is opera gonna have ?

Anyway I'll see how this pans out with my usage of thunderbird over the next few days

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

There is a little lag switching between folders but its not too bad think its very similiar to teh lag I got with Outlook Express

That's because when you change folders it downloads the full list of email in that folder which obviously can take a while as it's not compressed and all plain text.

[Skatoony]

Emails: KMail
RSS Feeds: Akregator

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by Zeph

That's because when you change folders it downloads the full list of email in that folder which obviously can take a while as it's not compressed and all plain text.

LOL If it did that I would be waiting all night to change folders : You mean headers mates or changed headers from IMAP. I would be deadmeat if I used the INBOX format especially when mailbox sizes are around the gig mark,

Hey since it looks like I'm a mozilla convert I found some very neat plugins for firefox and thunderbird...
---- linky --- http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php

Best of all I found this exporter which exported everthing including extensions
to my lappy....

Now that was cool I even had time spent over to write this.

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Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Emails: KMail
RSS Feeds: Akregator

I might finally go linux desktop after it being my OS of choice for more than 10 years but I dare not go desktop linux .... I'm a shell man.

Mind you I was testing BackTrack last night and what can I say kde has really improved over the years.. very beautiful...

Admin Edit (Stuart): Please don't include links to sites with hacking tools.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

Guys n Dolls,

What Email client do you use ?

I wanna use thunderbird so that I can use RSS and not have to log onto this dumpsh*te all the time . However it crashed my laptop... Gonna try it on this pc to see if I get anymore joy.

Alternative suggestions welcome. As per usual it needs to handle BIG IMAP mailboxes..
Please dont laff mines 1.5Gig :
root mailhost:/home/xxxx/Maildir> du -ks .
1576720 .

I've seen Thunderbird take large mailboxes (larger than 1.5 Gig) in it's stride with no apparent problems..

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

<snip>
I might finally go linux desktop after it being my OS of choice for more than 10 years but I dare not go desktop linux .... I'm a shell man.

Mind you I was testing BackTrack last night and what can I say kde has really improved over the years.. very beautiful...

Go for it PCLinuxOS is a great desktop distro...

[Edit] And it's already updated to KDE 3.5.5.... (I know Kanotix is too... ) [Edit]

You can share your Thunderbird (& FF) profile if you dual boot...

[jumbo159]

M$ Outlook.
Calendar and contacts sync with my nokia N80 over bluetooth connection.
Also I guess a lot of PDA peeps use outlook for the same reason?