need a new email client

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 04:25

Hi

could some one please suggest a email client that will allow me to access fastmail,gmail and MSN ?

i am using outlook express at the moment but for some reason the Gmail account keeps changing its setting every time i close the program and i only reinstall xp yesterday because my hard drive failed and it also did this before that so there is some problem with outlook express and Gmail.

any way i think i need a client that will do pop,imap and http

will Eudora do this ?

bledd · 21 Jan 2007 at 05:04

safest wau os to only s use gaiml 9do you realyl neeed the oerthrs iknsatled?)

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 08:32

bledd. said:
safest wau os to only s use gaiml 9do you realyl neeed the oerthrs iknsatled?)

did you have a good night out

TrUz · 21 Jan 2007 at 08:46

tonyzero said:
did you have a good night out

lol, I think he did.

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:39

Eudora might do that, don't know about its HTTP support. Thunderbird however will do POP3, IMAP and HTTP. You'd have to download the Webmail plugins for Hotmail to get that to work but it does work. Download the Webmail and Hotmail plugins from http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html.

Oh and btw Fastmail rocks.

prescott28 · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:47

I'd say Thunderbird was the best choice as it is easy and fast and deals well with multiple accounts.

Zogger · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:15

I'm yet to find an email client that can handle a slightly unstable IMAP server well. It's a tad annoying as that's where most of my email goes. Otherwise thunderbird is generally good and the best of a bad set of solutions so far.
I would like to use windows live mail as it indexes your messages for the vista start -> search (although I guess I could possibly add thunderbird's messages to the index location, not the same though). Its IMAP is pretty poor though. It likes to tell you when you get disconnected from IMAP, the whole thing blocks for 10-15 seconds while you add someone to blocked senders (still imap). edit: (forgot to finish this post obviously...)

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:17

Zogger said:
I'm yet to find an email client that can handle a slightly unstable IMAP server well.

I'm confused. Why should an email client be expected to handle a slightly unstable IMAP server? The email client should do its job, and so should the server. If the server is a bit unstable then someone needs to work on the server, not blame the email client.

Zogger · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:19

MarcLister said:
I'm confused. Why should an email client be expected to handle a slightly unstable IMAP server? The email client should do its job, and so should the server. If the server is a bit unstable then someone needs to work on the server, not blame the email client.

..because errors happen, and error handling is a major part of software design. It's not so much unstable as slow and it's way beyond my control.

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 12:44

ok guys thanks for that Thunderbird it is then

Cob · 21 Jan 2007 at 14:29

bledd. said:
safest wau os to only s use gaiml 9do you realyl neeed the oerthrs iknsatled?)

Sig worthy

bledd · 21 Jan 2007 at 14:33

omg, my head

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 14:34

Cob said:
Sig worthy

Done.

bledd. said:
omg, my head

LOL.

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 15:25

well i have got two of my accounts going but there seems to be a problem with hotmail extension has anyone else had this ?

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 15:26

tonyzero said:
well i have got two of my accounts going but there seems to be a problem with hotmail extension has anyone else had this ?

What is the problem? Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be OK for others mostly I find.

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:32

MarcLister said:
What is the problem? Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be OK for others mostly I find.

i just can not get it to access my account at all, i have tried also sorts of options but to no avail.

it says something about my user name or password being wrong even though they are correct and another one i have seen is something about a getting bad vibes

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:34

tonyzero said:
i just can not get it to access my account at all, i have tried also sorts of options but to no avail.

it says something about my user name or password being wrong even though they are correct and another one i have seen is something about a getting bad vibes

I've not got the username/password message but I do get the bad vibes one occasionally. I don't know why. Its very temperamental that. For example I installed that last week, it didn't work at first. Then it did later then it didn't. :confused:

EirePlane · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:37

Might want to take a look at Windows Live Mail Desktop. Can handle POP, SMPT, Hotmail and I think IMAP, its still in beta but has been working fine for me
http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionid=6ac2bed2-b5a4-4a0a-a897-e36dd191a9f4

tonyzero · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:38

MarcLister said:
I've not got the username/password message but I do get the bad vibes one occasionally. I don't know why. Its very temperamental that. For example I installed that last week, it didn't work at first. Then it did later then it didn't.

it seems that it is very buggy when i read up on it on the mozillazine forum

MarcLister · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:42

tonyzero said:
it seems that it is very buggy when i read up on it on the mozillazine forum

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised. I recommended it to someone else on another forum and it seems to have worked for him.

I think the problem isn't that it is buggy per se, more that the extensions are trying to add a new feature to Thunderbird plus it is also trying to manipulate Hotmail in a way it isn't designed to be used?