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Been using Opera.
I really like having the browser and eMail in one place. Now Opera newsgroup seems to be disconnected. Opera has some problems. Try to indent by putting a few spaces in front of a line of test. Opera removes them upon sending. Span deletion does not work. It deletes permanently only in the Opera window. When I restart, all the spam shows up again. I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. Seamonkey keeps forgetting my passwords. It says use Password Manager to remember. What does Password Manager belong to (part of Seamonkey or what???)? Should I not fix the Seamonkey eMail account Settings? I cannot find the password input place in Settings. Other eMailers have it there. What am I missing? What is the difference between Seamonkey and Thunderbird? So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. |
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OldGuy said on 2/15/2014 10:15 PM: Been using Opera. I really like having the browser and eMail in one place. Now Opera newsgroup seems to be disconnected. Opera has some problems. Try to indent by putting a few spaces in front of a line of test. Opera removes them upon sending. Span deletion does not work. It deletes permanently only in the Opera window. When I restart, all the spam shows up again. I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. Seamonkey keeps forgetting my passwords. It says use Password Manager to remember. What does Password Manager belong to (part of Seamonkey or what???)? Should I not fix the Seamonkey eMail account Settings? I cannot find the password input place in Settings. Other eMailers have it there. What am I missing? What is the difference between Seamonkey and Thunderbird? So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. Normally in TB (and I guess seamonkey) you set up an account with only the user name. Then the first time you use it, it asks for the password and you have to enter it and SHOULD check the box to use password manager to save it for the next usages. Otherwise you'll have to keep entering it. I guess if you are paranoid you could skip over that. If you didn't save it, it will ask the next time you get mail and you can then opt to save password. |
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OldGuy wrote:
Been using Opera. I really like having the browser and eMail in one place. Now Opera newsgroup seems to be disconnected. Opera has some problems. Try to indent by putting a few spaces in front of a line of test. Opera removes them upon sending. Span deletion does not work. It deletes permanently only in the Opera window. When I restart, all the spam shows up again. I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. Seamonkey keeps forgetting my passwords. It says use Password Manager to remember. What does Password Manager belong to (part of Seamonkey or what???)? Should I not fix the Seamonkey eMail account Settings? I cannot find the password input place in Settings. Other eMailers have it there. What am I missing? What is the difference between Seamonkey and Thunderbird? So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. I use SeaMonkey. Never had a problem with it. SM is a combined browser and email/ng application. |
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OldGuy wrote:
I use SeaMonkey. Never had a problem with it. SM is a combined browser and email/ng application. Does SM support add-ons like TBird. Specifically the one that enhances the eMail disposition rules like automatically copying eMail attachments for an account to a folder? Basic TBird could not do that so I installed an add-on to do it. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:15:24 -0800, OldGuy wrote:
So what free eMail apps are any good? PC-Alpine. |
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On 2/15/2014 9:15 PM, OldGuy wrote: I tried Thunderbird and it is very
slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. You noticed that too, eh? Yeah that is very annoying about TB for me. Funny some people claim they do not see it. I admit if you have more processor power than you know what to do with, the slowness is less noticeable. I also heard if you use IMAP email (I do), TB spends much of its time updating indexes. This in turn tends to really slow down TB a lot. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v24.3.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:15:24 -0800, OldGuy wrote:
Been using Opera. I really like having the browser and eMail in one place. Now Opera newsgroup seems to be disconnected. Opera has some problems. Try to indent by putting a few spaces in front of a line of test. Opera removes them upon sending. Span deletion does not work. It deletes permanently only in the Opera window. When I restart, all the spam shows up again. I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. I've not found Thunderbird to be slow. But I'm using an old version. 2.0.0.24, The newer versions are probably all bloated. My older version works just fine. It dont need anything more features. Anything more is simply bloat. Try it, you might like it. You can get it he http://www.oldapps.com/thunderbird.php Like I always say, "It's just email, mostly text, and occasionally a picture added. Who needs tons of features, as long as it loads your email, you should be good." By the way, Opera seems to have had problems ever since it began. I've installed and deleted more times than I can count. I wont install it again. There is nothing I like about it! I use Firefox and TB. Agent for newsgroups. I dont mind separate programs, I can open all of them at once. Plus, I wonder if having your email included with the browser tends to allow websites to steal your email addresses for spamming? I prefer keeping them separate. Good Luck. |
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Per OldGuy:
So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. I have been using Forte's "Agent" for so many years I've forgotten how many. I never found anything it couldn't do that I wanted done. There is a fairly active newsgroup at alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent -- Pete Cresswell |
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:31:21 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote: Per OldGuy: So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. I have been using Forte's "Agent" for so many years I've forgotten how many. I never found anything it couldn't do that I wanted done. There is a fairly active newsgroup at alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Same here, but I only use it for newsgroups. I like Agent 2.0, I did not like the newer versions, in which they screwed up the whole placement of the options, and changed the wording too. I can darn near operate Agent 2.0 with my eyes closed. As soon as I tried the newer versions, I spent a long time trying to find what I wanted to do, and got frustrated with them. For the news, 2.0 is just fine. |
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"OldGuy" wrote in message
So what free eMail apps are any good? Would be nice if it had newsgroups too but that is not mandatory. Here's a comparison, try them until you find one you like... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._email_clients When I got a laptop with Win8, that's what I did. I didn't find one, wound up installing a virtual machin (Oracle Virtual Box) and XP in it so I could continue using Outlook Express. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:41:09 -0500, dadiOH wrote:
Here's a comparison, try them until you find one you like... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari..._email_clients I wonder if anyone is still using Elm? |
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BillW50 said on 2/16/2014 7:38 AM: On 2/15/2014 9:15 PM, OldGuy wrote: I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. You noticed that too, eh? Yeah that is very annoying about TB for me. Funny some people claim they do not see it. I admit if you have more processor power than you know what to do with, the slowness is less noticeable. I also heard if you use IMAP email (I do), TB spends much of its time updating indexes. This in turn tends to really slow down TB a lot. That might answer why my Yahoo email account (IMAP) is so slow. I don't use it thank goodness, it's just a placeholder but.... I don't notice slowdowns in Windows, but I have TB on Linux Mint and I see one system core spike to 100% now and then and I can sometimes type 5 or 10 words before they show on the screen in compose. |
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On 2/16/2014 11:11 AM, Big Al wrote:
BillW50 said on 2/16/2014 7:38 AM: On 2/15/2014 9:15 PM, OldGuy wrote: I tried Thunderbird and it is very slow. Thunderbird programmers do not seem to know how to code to release for user actions. It locks itself up until it finishes what it wants to do. Not good programming. I cannot seem to stop what is happening or do other simple tasks until TBird finishes. You noticed that too, eh? Yeah that is very annoying about TB for me. Funny some people claim they do not see it. I admit if you have more processor power than you know what to do with, the slowness is less noticeable. I also heard if you use IMAP email (I do), TB spends much of its time updating indexes. This in turn tends to really slow down TB a lot. That might answer why my Yahoo email account (IMAP) is so slow. I don't use it thank goodness, it's just a placeholder but.... I really like IMAP, since it syncs all of your email on all of your machines. It syncs read, flagged, delete, move, etc. I don't notice slowdowns in Windows, but I have TB on Linux Mint and I see one system core spike to 100% now and then and I can sometimes type 5 or 10 words before they show on the screen in compose. I don't use it enough under Linux to recall, but depending on the CPU power, that happens too. Worse it could start dropping other typing as well. It probably depends on your keyboard buffer. Once it fills and TB didn't grab it yet, then it starts to drop characters. I normally use another editor (using copy and paste) so this doesn't happen. I am using Word right now, but even Notepad works fine for this purpose. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v24.3.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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On 2014-02-16, mechanic wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:15:24 -0800, OldGuy wrote: So what free eMail apps are any good? PC-Alpine. Has anything been done to improve its setup for multiple email-ids? |
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