eMail Client For Me

On 18/06/2013 17:28, philo wrote:
On 06/18/2013 10:17 AM, Good Guy wrote:
On 18/06/2013 15:51, OldGuy wrote:
Other than
OE Just seems too outdated.
Outlook Fancy but I could never grow into it.
Live Mail It's Microsoft. Love it or hate it.
Opera I like the web browser and eMail is pretty good.

What other recommended free email clients are recommended.
I know that certain features and peccadilloes make an eMail client
liked or disliked so maybe also say what those features are.



Thunderbird works for me just fine.





Yep, I've been using it for years and like it.

+1

Fokke

OldGuy wrote:

What other recommended free email clients are recommended.

Pegasus mail (http://www.pmail.com)

Important to me: In addition can anyone identify which email clients
can download headers but not attachments until called for?

Email attachments are just part of the body. The client has to bring
down the entire body, then parse it out.

But...Pegasus can display the headers on messages currently on the
server and let you decide which you want to bring down.

eMails with large attachments that take too long to download. I need
to select the eMail and download only those attachments that I
immediately need.

As explained above, that's not an option with email. But if you can
find an email provider that uses IMAP
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern...cess_Protocol), that
might solve your problem. Pegasus fully supports IMAP, and it's
possible that your current email provider does too.

I want a mail client so I can be notified upon mail arrival so I do not
have to go to e.g. Hotmail or GMail etc to look.

You can set Pegasus (and most other clients also) to check the server
at an interval that you select. If it finds new mail, it will play a
sound, or make the icon in the System area move or something like
that.

--
Tim Slattery

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:31 -0400, QuestionQuigley wrote:

Thunderburd also gas a decent news reader.

That could be debated...

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s|b

"s|b" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:31 -0400, QuestionQuigley wrote:

Thunderburd also gas a decent news reader.

That could be debated...

What's to debate? T'Burp is the ONLY newsreader worse than OE.

T'Belch used to be an OK email client in version 2.x but version 3.x
removed the "OK" and made it a not-very-good email client, later
versions made it more and more sucky.

Good news, version 2.x may still be available if you search for it,
Bad news, T'Barf requires several "add-ons" to make it a usable Email
client (to me, anyway) and those add-ons may no longer be available for
the early versions.

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On 6/19/2013 3:00 PM, XS11E wrote:
"s|b" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:31 -0400, QuestionQuigley wrote:

Thunderburd also gas a decent news reader.

That could be debated...

What's to debate? T'Burp is the ONLY newsreader worse than OE.

T'Belch used to be an OK email client in version 2.x but version 3.x
removed the "OK" and made it a not-very-good email client, later
versions made it more and more sucky.

Good news, version 2.x may still be available if you search for it,
Bad news, T'Barf requires several "add-ons" to make it a usable Email
client (to me, anyway) and those add-ons may no longer be available for
the early versions.

I use GMail as web mail and have T-Bird running to backup GMail using
IMAP. Then use T-Bird as a news reader. I find that faster when using
iPad and traveling.

XS11E has written on 6/19/2013 3:00 PM:
"s|b" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:31 -0400, QuestionQuigley wrote:

Thunderburd also gas a decent news reader.

That could be debated...

What's to debate? T'Burp is the ONLY newsreader worse than OE.

T'Belch used to be an OK email client in version 2.x but version 3.x
removed the "OK" and made it a not-very-good email client, later
versions made it more and more sucky.

Good news, version 2.x may still be available if you search for it,

Lots of security problems!

Alias formulated on Tuesday :
On 6/18/2013 4:51 PM, OldGuy wrote:
Important to me: In addition can anyone identify which email clients
can download headers but not attachments until called for? I get eMails
with large attachments that take too long to download. I need to select
the eMail and download only those attachments that I immediately need.

I don't think an email client exists for that. Thunderbird can be set to just
download headers but I'm not sure if those headers will indicate if you have
any attachments.

Where in TBird do I make those settings?
1) Limit download size
2) Turn off downloading attachments.

OldGuy has written on 6/19/2013 5:01 PM:
Alias formulated on Tuesday :
On 6/18/2013 4:51 PM, OldGuy wrote:
Important to me: In addition can anyone identify which email clients
can download headers but not attachments until called for? I get eMails
with large attachments that take too long to download. I need to select
the eMail and download only those attachments that I immediately need.

I don't think an email client exists for that. Thunderbird can be set to just
download headers but I'm not sure if those headers will indicate if you have
any attachments.

Where in TBird do I make those settings?
1) Limit download size
2) Turn off downloading attachments.

1) Disk space
2) Server settings

POP3 accounts only.

* Good Guy wrote, On 18-Jun-13 22:17:
On 18/06/2013 15:51, OldGuy wrote:
Other than
OE Just seems too outdated.
Outlook Fancy but I could never grow into it.
Live Mail It's Microsoft. Love it or hate it.
Opera I like the web browser and eMail is pretty good.

What other recommended free email clients are recommended.
I know that certain features and peccadilloes make an eMail client
liked or disliked so maybe also say what those features are.



Thunderbird works for me just fine.



One important item to be aware of, is that TB address book simply
won't work with Google Sync and most likely you will lose your AB.
Miles

Juan Wei wrote on 6/19/2013 :
OldGuy has written on 6/19/2013 5:01 PM:
Alias formulated on Tuesday :
On 6/18/2013 4:51 PM, OldGuy wrote:
Important to me: In addition can anyone identify which email clients
can download headers but not attachments until called for? I get eMails
with large attachments that take too long to download. I need to select
the eMail and download only those attachments that I immediately need.

I don't think an email client exists for that. Thunderbird can be set to
just download headers but I'm not sure if those headers will indicate if
you have any attachments.

Where in TBird do I make those settings?
1) Limit download size
2) Turn off downloading attachments.

1) Disk space
2) Server settings

POP3 accounts only.

OK but I had to set up an account first and suffer the expectation of
things being downloaded before I could get to the settings.
That should be part of the account creation.

Anyway now I cannot get my contacts.

Maybe a new Post. Getting from contacts Opera that only puts out its
own format and none of the standard export/import formats.

Maybe a converter someplace???

Maybe a new Post. Getting from contacts Opera that only puts out its own
format and none of the standard export/import formats.

Maybe a converter someplace???


Found Dawn. That will convert several eMail contact lists.

After a lot of fiddling I finally got Opera Contacts into Thunderbird.

On 6/19/2013 5:28 PM, Miles wrote:
* Good Guy wrote, On 18-Jun-13 22:17:
On 18/06/2013 15:51, OldGuy wrote:
Other than
OE Just seems too outdated.
Outlook Fancy but I could never grow into it.
Live Mail It's Microsoft. Love it or hate it.
Opera I like the web browser and eMail is pretty good.

What other recommended free email clients are recommended.
I know that certain features and peccadilloes make an eMail client
liked or disliked so maybe also say what those features are.



Thunderbird works for me just fine.



One important item to be aware of, is that TB address book simply won't
work with Google Sync and most likely you will lose your AB.
Miles
there is a free add-on called "Google Contacts" that will synch TB
address info on start up of TB.

Juan Wei wrote:

XS11E has written on 6/19/2013 3:00 PM:
"s|b" wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:02:31 -0400, QuestionQuigley wrote:

Thunderburd also gas a decent news reader.

That could be debated...

What's to debate? T'Burp is the ONLY newsreader worse than OE.

T'Belch used to be an OK email client in version 2.x but version
3.x removed the "OK" and made it a not-very-good email client,
later versions made it more and more sucky.

Good news, version 2.x may still be available if you search for
it,

Lots of security problems!

None I'm aware of, remember,security problems are in the wetware, not
the hardware or the software.



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The Usenet Improvement Project:
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/

On 19 Jun 2013, OldGuy wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

OK but I had to set up an account first and suffer the expectation
of things being downloaded before I could get to the settings.
That should be part of the account creation.

It is. You need to click on the Advanced Settings button and set the
appropriate options before you close the account creation dialog.

In message , XS11E
writes:
Juan Wei wrote:
[]
Lots of security problems!

None I'm aware of, remember,security problems are in the wetware, not
the hardware or the software.



Not entirely. Though a lot of them are indeed due to social engineering,
there can be weaknesses in software (buffer overflow exploits for
example). And even in hardware. Whether this actually applies to old
versions of Thunderbird, I have no idea.
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