[thelist] Favourite email clients anyone?

[Mike Foroobar]

If you're looking for good spam protection and you're stuck using 
Outlook, look not further than Spammunition 
(http://www.upserve.com/spammunition/default.asp) which I use and works 
excellently, SpamBayes 
(http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/) with it's new 
Outlook plugin, or POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) which I 
have no experience with.

And one other thing to take note of when you're choosing an email 
client: I use rules heavily to sort my incoming mail, sending different 
mailing lists to different folders, my business email one place, my 
personal another, etc. and thus I have at least 30 rules running. When I 
used Outlook the rules ran on startup and I came to notice that many 
times the rules wouldn't be applied and so I'd have 20 to 40 unsorted, 
unclassified messages lying around in my inbox and I'd either have to 
manually run the rules or move them by hand, which came to be a big pain 
in the arse. If you check out the Microsoft Outlook support website 
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q325675) they 
have a little subheading at the extreme bottom of the page saying 
"Outlook E-mail Rules May Not Work As Expected." It was for this reason 
that I switched my rules-intensive account over to using Mozilla Mail 
and left the basic stuff in Outlook (because everything sync's with my 
Pocket PC).

And one comment on Mozilla Mail regarding threading. The one problem I 
have with it that I never had with Outlook's threading/conversation 
capability is that sometimes it will append new conversations to the end 
of an existing conversation (i.e. in the "Downloading a whole site" 
thread earlier this week on thelist, the thread "Validating code" 
appeared towards the bottom of the thread's tree structure when I 
expanded the thread...).

Just my 0.02.

Mike

Saila, Craig wrote:
> Chris Johnston wrote:
> 
>>For a great open source email client check out Mozilla Mail. I have
>>been using it for the past two years after ditching Outlook and I
> 
> 
> I second that:
> <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.5a>
> The latest versions have a great Bayesian spam filter which prevents
> about 95% of the spam from landing in my inbox. That in itself is enough
> for me. Also, it's threading feature is far superior to Outlook's as it
> threads by Message ID.
> 
> If you want a standalone email client, try Thunderbird, which is
> essentially Mozilla Mail without the browser:
> <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/>
>