I need a good E-mail program cause I'm tired of checking mine through the browser, what's a good one?

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The Matrix is not Linux compatible.

A lot of people seem to like Eudora.

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And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...
DSettahr's Homepage | Cantina Cloud

Thunderbird rocks. www.mozilla.org

Easy to install (A simple unzip operation) and then easy to set up.

Enjoy.

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Signature.

*so original*

Outlook works fine for me.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?

If you like virus-ridden, spam-laden clients, yes, Outlook is perfect.

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THUNDABIRD

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

I use Incredimail...

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"A tiger? In Africa?!"

"True as toasted toads!"

Thunderbird is jolly.

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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

THUNDER BIRDS ARE GO! *ships with numbers on them lift off using strings*

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"A tiger? In Africa?!"

"True as toasted toads!"

KMail all the way, baby...

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

I've been using Eudora for about 6 months now in Windows.

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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.
HTP
babble, babble, b!tch, b!tch, rebel, rebel, party, party.

Really? In the years that I've been using various versions of Outlook, I've never had a problem with viruses, keeping up with the security updates is all it takes, and for the extra paranoid you can turn off the preview pane. And as for the spam-laden comment, the mail client has nothing to do with that.

Ximian Evolution.

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I check my e-mail.

I agree, when on linux, i prefer to use kmail, but in windows, I have to go with thunderbird myself.



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

If you are using opera, you can run your email through opera, thats what I do

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"Just remember -- No matter how bad things get, Northern Minnesota will always be there"
-- Garrison Keeler

I do that too (If I can't be bothered to log in with thunderbird)... M2 is quite cool

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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.

same here. I've never had problems with Outlook. The biggest (and simplest) way to avoid getting viruses is to *not* open attachments...



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New! Fireworks T-shirts!

Too bad Outlook likes to open them for you...

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I check my e-mail.

Gmail! .. soon enough

Which is why someone mentioned you can turn off the preview pane.

I just downloaded Thunderbird, trying it now


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Forum Rules

I myself have never had any issues with Outlook, nor for that matter ever gotten a virus on my machine. It seems to be a powerful coherent fairly intuitive piece of software.

Though the issue currently is that i recently reinstalled winxp as i got new hardware and so forth [long story short a dodgy mobo buggered my xp install so it was simplest to just reinstall], however without the registry information or whatever, despite that i still have all my Ms Office 2000 or whatever version they are in my Program Files, they won't run as theyre 'not installed for this user'.. I also do not have my MS Office install cd currently and may not for some time [again long story]. Thus.......

I figure it may be worth looking into an alternative email client, ideally one that can reliably import all my outlook emails [about 3y of backlog of stuff i would really like to keep around]. Though for that matter i've got another 3y or so that i keep an old install of Juno around to view as i haven't found a way to import those to a newer client.

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"If I said anything which implies that I think that we didn't do what we should have done given the choices we faced at the time, I shouldn't have said that." -William Jefferson Clinton
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Telnet.

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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein

Actually i do use that not uncommonly to check my mail. I prefer having offline hard-copies though.

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"WHEREAS, a body of men calling themselves the National Congress are now in session in Washington City, in violation of our Imperial edict of the 12th of October last, declaring the said Congress abolished;
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the repose of our Empire that the said decree should be strictly complied with;
NOW, THEREFORE, we do hereby Order and Direct Major-General Scott, the Command-in-Chief of our Armies, immediately upon receipt of this, our Decree, to proceed with a suitable force and clear the Halls of Congress." -By Order of Emperor Joshua A Norton I of the United States of America, Dei Gratia, January 1860
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Arr, so i got Thunderbird because i can't use Outlook currently as stated above. And i tried to import my Outlook email and Thunderbird tells me that program is not installed and then lets me exit the dialogue.. gah! The whole point of getting this is /because/ Outlook wasn't reinstalled. As in it is physically on the drive, just not registered with the registry or whatever.

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
"WHEREAS, a body of men calling themselves the National Congress are now in session in Washington City, in violation of our Imperial edict of the 12th of October last, declaring the said Congress abolished;
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the repose of our Empire that the said decree should be strictly complied with;
NOW, THEREFORE, we do hereby Order and Direct Major-General Scott, the Command-in-Chief of our Armies, immediately upon receipt of this, our Decree, to proceed with a suitable force and clear the Halls of Congress." -By Order of Emperor Joshua A Norton I of the United States of America, Dei Gratia, January 1860
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

That's because it believes it isn't installed, due to the fact there are no registery entries. Dunno about a fix though.

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"The future is not determined by a throw of the dice, but is determined by the conscious decisions of you and me."
I am addicted to ellipses!!! AHHH!!! ...
Make Sorrowind Worthwhile... join it! http://sorrowind.net

He just said it to look cool with all the other Linux people. He really still uses the hotmail website... Out look works fine... case closed.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?

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I check my e-mail.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but you can check hotmail with outlook.

But yeah, but I agree with Mystic here,

[This message has been edited by Aaron (edited May 02, 2004).]

I know I was agreeing with you.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?

No I didn't. Even the guys at Tech TV admit that Outlook has horrible security holes, and crappy spam filters. If your going to use your email addy for anything OTHER than saying hi to your friends in town, then I suggest Thunderbird and the likes.

BTW, client does have something to do with the amount of spam you get, because different clients have different and better *cough*thunderbird*cough* spam filters.


BTW, I've never used Eudora, so I have no idea how it works.
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[This message has been edited by Dj Yoshi (edited May 02, 2004).]

A common trend here at massassi is getting overly defense about something because it's overly bashed... *cough*microsoft*cough*

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I check my e-mail.

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited May 02, 2004).]

On the contrary, Outlook always asks me if i'm sure I want to open an attachment (clearly starting that it could pose a security risk), whereas accidentally loading an attachment in Thunderbird (default settings, as with Outlook) resulted in me getting an email worm that was sending at a rate of about one per second.

I've been trying to use the Thunderbird spam filter and it seems to be getting WORSE at sorting out spam the more I train it. All of my legitimate emails are getting sent to Junk, yet about a dozen (per day) spam emails get sent to my proper inbox.

Suckage--for every 500 perfect cases, there's usually one or two that screw up. *cough*BRIANAMD*cough*.

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