What is up with MAIL?

Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:54:30 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

Here's a list of a few good ones:
http://email.about.com/od/windowsema...email_prog.htm

I question the purported expertise of anyone that includes
Incredimail as a good e-mail client. Once I saw that client listed,
the credibility of the author was gone.

That can be said about a lot of content on the web! ;-)

OK. When I said "good" I was talking about what the author said, not
what I thought. And to tell the truth, I hadn't even looked carefully
at what it contained. I meant that list only as a starting place to
find a few things to try for himself.

That's how I accepted your suggestion. Thanks, it might provide some balance
in my search.
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best regards,

Neil

VanguardLH wrote:
Neil Gould wrote:

I have tried Thunderbird on earlier OSs, and found it to be less
useful than OE, for instance. But, if that's the best one can do in
Win8, what a big step backwards. POP is not going away, and I don't
want or need any app "harvesting" my email accounts, as that becomes
a major point of failure that can shut me down.

[...]

If you envied users of Outlook for all the other PIM features than
just e-mail (POP, IMAP, and SMTP - along with Exchange which you
probably couldn't give a gnat's fart about), EssentialPIM is a very
similar PIM program. Outlook still has a more robust set of rules
but then many users don't define very complicated rules. There is a
freeware version of EssentialPIM that you could check out before
deciding if and when to buy their payware version. Both run on
Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.

http://www.essentialpim.com/

Thanks for your suggestions. Although I'm a bit put off by the UI, the
feature set of EPIM warrants a closer look at the app. I do have a rather
extensive set of rules that I'd like to replicate in whatever new app I get,
so thanks for the heads-up about this feature.
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best regards,

Neil

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:25:59 -0500, "Neil Gould"
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:54:30 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

Here's a list of a few good ones:
http://email.about.com/od/windowsema...email_prog.htm

I question the purported expertise of anyone that includes
Incredimail as a good e-mail client. Once I saw that client listed,
the credibility of the author was gone.

That can be said about a lot of content on the web! ;-)

OK. When I said "good" I was talking about what the author said, not
what I thought. And to tell the truth, I hadn't even looked carefully
at what it contained. I meant that list only as a starting place to
find a few things to try for himself.

That's how I accepted your suggestion. Thanks, it might provide some balance
in my search.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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Ken Blake

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:06:07 -0500, "dadiOH" wrote
in Re What is up with MAIL?:

"Neil Gould" wrote in message


I have tried Thunderbird on earlier OSs, and found it to
be less useful than OE, for instance.

As did I. That's why I installed Virtual Box and stuck Windows XP into
it...so I could have OE.

Before doing that, I tried a SLEW of email programs. Some I liked but they
didn't do NNTP (I have no need for a separate NNTP client); others did NNTP
but the mail part sucked.

Did you ever look at Forte Agent, an itegrated email and NNTP client?
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php
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and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.

"CRNG" wrote in message

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:06:07 -0500, "dadiOH"
wrote in
Re What is up with
MAIL?:

"Neil Gould" wrote in message


I have tried Thunderbird on earlier OSs, and found it
to be less useful than OE, for instance.

As did I. That's why I installed Virtual Box and stuck
Windows XP into it...so I could have OE.

Before doing that, I tried a SLEW of email programs.
Some I liked but they didn't do NNTP (I have no need
for a separate NNTP client); others did NNTP but the
mail part sucked.

Did you ever look at Forte Agent, an itegrated email and
NNTP client? http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php



Yep. Many years ago. Nothing wrong with it but it exceeded my needs. I do
a little email, read a half dozen news groups. OE does what I need just
fine. Thanks for the suggestion, though.


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dadiOH
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