What mail client ?

[Admiral]

So, is it worth ditching OE for another mail client ?
A long, long time ago (2 or 3 years) I tryed Pegasus and Eudora, can't remember how I felt about them.
With the firebird thread going on I went and downloaded it and also saw the thunderbird mail client, how is it ?

[Marshmallowman]

Thunderbird is pretty good, the junk/spam filters do a reasonable job.

Does eveything I want, and will "sanitise" junk email for previewing...eg will not run attachments or nasty html/java

[Rakido]

I'm using The Bat for years now (www.ritlabs.com).

Does all i want, doesn't run attachments automatically, has good filtering, ...


Rakido

[Wulfman]

using mozilla at the moment, the junk mail filter is well trained after about half a year of use. great.

will switch to thunderbird some time in the future.

mfg
wulfman

[az]

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[Wulfman]

Originally posted by az
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deja vue.

mfg
wulfman

[High_Jumbllama]

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but there is something I've been wondering about Mozilla and Thunderbird. How does one get an eml file back into the program. I know you can save from the program to .eml but I do not know how to reverse this.

[Admiral]

Importing settings and mail with Thunderbird seems easy enough, how do you back them up in case you want to reinstall OS ?

[Technoid]

just backup the thunderbird folder in
"C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Application Data"

[Admiral]

thanks

[Wulfman]

are the junk-mail-files (training.*?) and the bookmarks stored there too?

mfg
wulfman

[Admiral]

Somehow, it doesn't save sent messages. I've looked under Options/Composition for related settings, can't find any.

[Technoid]

everything should be stored there

[Gurm]

If I didn't use Outlook (due to its integration of e-mail and all the OTHER stuff I do), I don't know what I'd use. Eudora has always been dependable and utilitarian, but very boring.

- Gurm

[bsdgeek]

I use T-bird, but I don't do anything fancy with it, so...