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Double07

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What Windows 10 free clients do you use and/or would recommend. Ive always just used outlook becuase I am lazy but now that I have just fresh installed Windows I was wondering what others use as I feel like a bit of a change.

Thoughts?
 
thunderbird :- with caveats
- editor is not very powerful eg. cannot quote already inserted text
- search mechanism not as powerful as outlook, it is fast, but cannot find emails with a keyword from a particular date range
- to use it with gmail server, it still uses a less secure protocol, so have to declare in gmail 'let less secure apps connect'
- needed an add-on to paste bitmaps into emails.
- can, also, configure with multiple account.
 
I still use Thunderbird although do fear it may be unsupported someday due to funding.
Someone mentioned to me to try mailbird but not tried it yet. Email clients is not something I like to switch often unless the app can import or read mailbox files from other clients.
 
bremen1874 said:
If you have access to Outlook why wouldn't you use it?
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I get bored every now and then and fancy a change, plus I like to see what other people are using and give it a bash as I am always open to changing programmes if I find something I like more or find more useful.
 
Outlook. Simple, it’s the program everything else wants to be but will give you a million reasons why they can’t, aren’t or won’t.
 
Outlook as part of my Office 365 subscription, before that I was using Postbox for the past 5 years, but had to move as is has no export feature for message rules / filters.
 
Not often you see a MS program get the nod from people :) To be fair I do like outlook, I just like trying out other stuff periodically.
 
I'm not sure if outlook is as secure as thunderbird ? , at least in thunderbird I block all access to external content (eg bitmaps/advertising junk you might have embedded in emails), no risk of VBA script incursion in thunderbird either, like office stuff ?

- Is PGP integrated in outlook too, although I've only rarely used it.
 
In my last tech role 2 years ago I updated 90% of the business from Live Mail to Thunderbird.

Free and honestly a good piece of software with a little history behind it.

Not perfect but good enough.
 
AHarvey said:
In my last tech role 2 years ago I updated 90% of the business from Live Mail to Thunderbird.

Free and honestly a good piece of software with a little history behind it.

Not perfect but good enough.
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Would you stand by this analysis?
I used Thunderbird many years ago but haven't kept up-to-date with it. It is my understanding that Mozilla lost interest in it some time ago.

I have been asked by someone to recommend a "solution" for "safeguarding" emails received from a 1&1 account, as well as from Hotmail and Gmail - Thunderbird would be my recommendation.
 
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