Newsgroup reader for Win7 and Win8

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:12:30 -0500, Nil wrote:

On 22 Feb 2015, "R.H. Breener" wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8:

I installed Thunderbird today and found it useless. I can get mail
from Gmail but get errors when trying to send mail. And it wont
let me add all 3 email accounts.

Then you're doing something wrong. I can verify that Thunderbird works
with Gmail. I've had as many as 6 mail accounts set up.

I have four, though Gmail is not among them,(*) and Thunderbird does
a terrific job. I tried using Thunderbird for newsgroups some time
ago, though, and gave up; I can't remember what the deal-breaker was.

Though I think Gmail is the spawn of Satan(*), I recommend to the OP
a simple search. There are many, many pages describing how to run
Gmail in Thunderbird.


(*) because I won't accept Google's war on privacy. (It's with the
greatest reluctance that I even answer mail from Gmail accounts,
because Google arrogates to itself the right to store my words and
use them in marketing even though I don't have a Gmail account.)

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:42:44 -0500, "R.H. Breener"
wrote:

I installed Thunderbird today and found it useless. I can get mail from
Gmail but get errors when trying to send mail. And it wont let me add all 3
email accounts.


I haven't tried Thunderbird in years, and I'm far from an expert on
it. But I do know this: it is *not* useless, and the problems you
describe are not Thunderbird problems; they certainly are a result of
your doing something wrong.

Thunderbird isn't my personal choice, but there are many thousands
(perhaps millions) of satisfied Thunderbird users.

On 22 Feb 2015, Big_Al wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8:

Nil wrote on 2/22/2015 3:12 AM:

Then you're doing something wrong. I can verify that Thunderbird
works with Gmail. I've had as many as 6 mail accounts set up.

And I've been able to setup
Yahoo
Gmail
Hotmail
Verizon
all working fine. Along with 3 news servers and 10-12
newsgroups. Thunderbird would not be one of the better news
clients if it were as bad as you say it is (OP that is).

I've got two Yahoo accounts, two Gmail accounts, two Comcast accounts
and a private account. I've got 5 SMTP servers set up. I've set
accounts up as POP3 and IMAP. I've got two NNTP accounts set up.
They've all worked well.

I think Thunderbird is NOT one of the better news clients, in fact I
pretty much hate it. But I think the email part of the program is quite
good. It's got a lot of features, especially with some well-chosen
extensions, and it just plain works.