email clients

[CrAz3D]

what do you use?

Resource use fairly important because I'm on XP Media Center, P4 2.8GHz, 1 GB RAM.

I'm sick of MS Outlook Express @ work, but am unsure what'd be best for mass email

[iago]

Thunderbird 3 is really nice for IMAP or POP3 servers. There's no reason it shouldn't work on that computer, since there's nothing wrong with those specs.

If you're on an Exchange server, though, you might be outta luck.

[Sidoh]

Outlook Express sucks, I'll agree, but I actually quite liked Outlook for office use.  I'd imagine I wouldn't have liked it much at all if others weren't using it and taking advantage of the collaboration tools, though.

[iago]

Outlook is a horrible program, but the integrated calendar and stuff is nice.

I think email/calendar is one thing that the opensource world has really dropped the ball on. Thunderbird with the calendar component can do it, but there isn't an open standard, that i'm aware of, for meeting invites and scheduling and the like.

[MyndFyre]

Outlook is a horrible program, but the integrated calendar and stuff is nice.

I think email/calendar is one thing that the opensource world has really dropped the ball on. Thunderbird with the calendar component can do it, but there isn't an open standard, that i'm aware of, for meeting invites and scheduling and the like.

Outlook is an AWESOME program, iago.  You're on crack. :P

[CrAz3D]

SMALLLLLLLL office.  I spose thunderbird will be fine (once I'm able to allow it to index everything w/out using 99.8% of the machine's resources)

Thnx

[rabbit]

I also use Thunderbird 3 for everything.

[CrAz3D]

Thunderbird is just not working on this machine.  Weaksauce :(.

[iago]

Thunderbird's been pissing me off lately. Thunderbird3 feels buggy to me, and is constantly screwing up my read/unread messages. Not to mention it's slow and has other odd/buggy behaviours.

It finally got to the point yesterday where I decided to find a new client. After awhile, I installed sylpheed. So far, I'm happy with it. The only issues I've had so far are:
- It polls IMAP instead of letting IMAP deliver
- It doesn't display HTML -- it renders HTML messages as plaintext.

Other than that, I'm really happy with it so far. Compared to Thunderbird, you get a lot more control, customizability, and speed.

[warz]

I use Outlook because it is the best.

[Joe]

I use Mail.app because it is the best.

Fixed.

But really, Outlook Express was never that bad. I just enjoyed Thunderbird because it wasn't Microsoft, really.

For Linux, I've always stuck with Thunderbird.