http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19242694 en Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:59:31 EDT Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:59:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19647446 lilhurricane : ...and our anticipated Preferred Member Choice 2008 FAQ is now up :)

»Software Forum Member Choice »(Archived) Preferred E-mail Clients - 2008 Member Choice

Thanks to all the members who participated..and to McSummation for the compilation.

..and all in our forum header: »2008 Member Choice FAQ's
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..and thanks to all our voting participants for their participation

The voting in this [POLL] is now officially (((closed))) - results will be tallied to create our new FAQ on E-Mail Client.
Keep your eyes here for the update to:

»2008 Member Choice FAQ's

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*Note: This thread will be updated at FCT (FAQ Creation Time), as will our forum header links. Stay tuned!
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19326947 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:02:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19314160 OverBurn : Thunderbird and also Gmail]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19314160 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:00:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19308173 Barbara Ann : GMail]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19308173 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:25:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19296805 upieper : Using Dream-mail here]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19296805 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:29:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19289924 delenn13 : I use Outlook Express for family and few other ppl. My ISP's filters are for the birds. So for most of the other stuff I use Gmail and Yahoo. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19289924 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:18:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19285672 Viet Vet : Nice Job on the Poll.
I use Outlook on All my PC`s]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19285672 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:55:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19282459 exocet_cm : I use Outlook to access my @gmail.com and @johndball.com accounts.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19282459 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:58:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19276166 caffeinator : I don't use an email client in the traditional sense anymore.

My personal mail is domain-based and I use SquirrelMail for that. The ISP's e-mail uses @Mail webmail which ties in nicely to their Barracuda box.

Of course there's the usual assortment of hotmail/yahoo/gmail for different levels of web use. :)

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Plus for webmail:

I use "HORDE", which is provided by Readyhosting.com. I also use whatever the webmail client that Verizon provides with FIOS. (Doesn't show a "brand".)

»www.horde.org/
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mail.com 10g storage.

Sorry Sir, I can't read and the link is below, it's $9.00 a year to get rid of the ads. Viral, trojan and spam checks @ their end. Three spams in around five years, discounting a stupid lapse on one occassion with PANDA online, which garners the infrequent load of BS from them. PANDA and security is an oxymoron.

»www.mail.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19262078 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:06:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19262033 GypsyRN : Nice POLL
I use Thunderbird, gave Pegesus a trial at the same time, I loved Thunderbird.
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»www.gypsyrn.net/blog]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19262033 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:00:06 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19261943 jmorlan : Voted "Other." Using Forte Agent as my main email client because of its excellent news-reading capabilities and it has now become a first tier email client in my opinion. I also use Outlook for some seldom used accounts and Gmail and Yahoo for web based email accounts. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19261943 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:40:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19261392 GlobalMind : IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.2 at work and Notes 8 at home.

For the haters out there I suggest you look at Notes 8.

Too bad this wasn't on the survey.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19261392 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:04:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19260518 Rhaps : Outlook 2003 at home and Lotus Note at work (I hate Lotus Note but no choice)
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Tried Outlook 2007 but it is dire.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19259269 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:36:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19258730 vukodlak75 : I can't go wrong with Thunderbird on both Windows and Mac :)
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I generally use Outlook Express (with the preview window turned off until I check out the headers), to access my ISP's POP3 account, and also have it configured to retrieve my GMail and Hotmail account email.

When on the road, or using someone else's Computer, I'll use Web based mail to access the same accounts. (Web mail is easy, but I agree with who ever said some of the interfaces are a little hard to take).

GMail is probably my favorite web based account as far as simplicity, and has a much less cluttered interface than many others. :)
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I still use Mutt and PINE
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»www.poppeeper.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19255286 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:09:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253951 MM Blues : I've been using Thunderbird for the last few years. Before that I was using Netscape Mail (which, I believe, was the original Mozilla based mail client).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253951 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:08:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253897 neill : I've been using Outlook, since I'm committed to MS Exchange. With Exchange, I get mail/contacts/appointments/tasks pushed to my WM 5.0 Treo.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253897 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253123 jbryan : Windows Mail]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19253123 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:06:09 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19252599 Owlbet : •Outlook
•Outlook Express
•Windows Mail

Thank you, McSummation for the poll. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19252599 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:34:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251897 anon : deleted by a moderator]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251897 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:49:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251684 Alcohol : Windows Mail ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251684 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:05:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251468 anon : deleted by a moderator]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251468 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:18:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251016 wolson : Thunderbird is primary;
for work, Lotus Notes mail.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19251016 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:41:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19250366 dancy70 : Outlook 2002 SP3 here most of the time and essentially for the calendar and contacts functions. I do use web mail for G-Mail, but find the interface a bit clunky, and have Outlook Express for my wife's account on a couple of other computers. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19250366 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:17:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249913 pcdebb : Outlook 2007 at home, and Lotus Notes at work :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249913 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:31:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249686 anon : deleted by a moderator]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249686 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:42:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249452 onDvine : I use Outlook Express and various web mail services with all messages viewed first through ePrompter: »www.eprompter.com.

ePrompter is a free notification application with a 5-Star CNET rating, and some users consider it to be a mini-client.

It automatically checks up to 16 POP3 and web-based accounts for new messages at intervals selected by the user and shows the numbers in a rotating tray icon.

It displays messages in plain text (view/delete spam safely) and can be used to compose and send plain text messages without visiting a site or opening the main mail client. It includes a rudimentary address book. Though not modern-looking, it's reliable and has an excellent users' support forum. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19249452 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:57:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19248487 Straphanger : Great poll!

I use Outlook 2007 on both my desktop and laptop linked up to DSLR and GMail accounts.
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at work, i was recently forced to switch from outlook to Lotus Notes. i didn't see Notes in your list, but i'm sure nobody will miss it.
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Then, on my Linux partitions, I use Seamonkey mail and Icedove Mail/News.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19248076 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:07:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19247892 barryindy : Agent

»www.forteinc.com/agent/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19247892 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:59:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19247847 anwgo153 : Yahooooooooo web mail ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19247847 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:24:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19247561 CMoore2004 : Windows Live Mail Desktop...

I've really fallen in love with it. Along with Windows Live Domains where MS hosts your e-mail with a nice 5GB, everything is sync'ed between all of my computers running Windows Live Mail.
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Aside from numerous email accounts, I use Evolution when I'm in Linux and for Windows I've been using Pegasus for many years. Pegasus is an excellent full featured freeware email program.
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Still going strong and getting better all the time.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19246572 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:04:12 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19246462 salzan : Great poll!

Still using an antique paid version of Eudora (5.0.2). :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19246462 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:49:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19246102 Rob A : Nice poll.

M2 for me]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19246102 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:43:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19245881 danny9 : Nice job on the poll McSummation! :)

Use Outlook Express.
Have an account at Yahoo but just use it once in a blue moon when I don't want to use my main e-mail address.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19245100 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:53:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19244826 La Luna : Outlook Express, main email client.

Gmail and Hotmail for crap mail registrations. Seriously hate their interfaces for anything else.

Have used Pegasus in the past, also a nice client.

Also used Thunderbird a while ago, too buggy.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19244826 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:16:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19244548 MarkAW : ThunderBird is my main e-mail client.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19244548 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:34:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243922 mromero : Thunderbird on Windows
Mail on Mac OS X
and
WebMail]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243922 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:55:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243814 MagMan : Thunderbird rules for me. ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243814 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:42:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243468 dadkins : Great Poll McSummation! :)

Don't use email software.
Webmail is simple. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243468 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:54:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243427 Sentinel : I still use Popcorn. Haven't found any reason to switch to anything else yet.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243427 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243213 lilhurricane : Excellent poll, McSummation :)

I use Outlook Express combined with a wide variety of web mail for filtering ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243213 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:25:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19243128 TheAnalyzer : Nice Poll McSummation :)

I use:
MS Office Outlook 2003

TA :)
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When I need to use a more typical GUI mailer, I currently use evolution (on linux) and thunderbird (on Windows), so I checked those too in the poll. I do use webmail daily (Yahoo, as an SBC/AT&T user), so I also added a vote for that. However I am mainly clearing the spam box, since my serious mail does not go there.

My backup command line mailer in unix is mutt, and my backup mailer in Windows is Pegasus. However I rarely use those, so I did not record a vote for them.

Perhaps I should also mention fetchmail for checking a remote POP3 mailbox and retrieving the mail for reading with a local client.
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Originally, the MUA was intended to be a simple program to read the user's mail messages, which the mail delivery agent (MDA) in conjunction with the mail transfer agent (MTA) would transfer into a local mailbox.

The most important mailbox formats are mbox and Maildir. These rather simple protocols for locally storing e-mails make import, export and backup of mailfolders quite easy.

E-mails to be sent would be handed over to the MTA, perhaps via an mail submission agent, therefore an MUA would not have to provide any transport-related functions.

Since the various Microsoft Windows versions intended for home use never provided an MTA, most modern MUAs have to support protocols like POP3 and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to communicate with a remote MTA located at the e-mail providers machine.

IMAP and the updated IMAP4 are optimized for storage of e-mail on the server, while the POP3 protocol generally assumes that the e-mail is downloaded to the client. The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is used by most e-mail clients to send e-mail.

In addition to the fat client e-mail clients, or small MUAs in cooperation with a local MDA/MTA, presented here, there are also Web-based e-mail programs called webmail.

An important standard supported by most e-mail clients is MIME, which is used to send binary file e-mail attachments. Attachments are files that are not part of the e-mail proper, but are sent with the e-mail.

Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) is a proprietary Microsoft Windows application programming interface (API) which can be used to access the Microsoft Exchange e-mail server or to interact with the Microsoft Outlook client.

Thanks to TransitMan for the above descriptions.
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Please choose the E-mail Client(s) you use most,Aethera,AK-Mail,AOL Communicator,Balsa,Becky!,Columba,Courier,Emacs,Entourage for Mac,Eudora,Eureka,Evolution,Express Plus,FoxMail,GNUMail,IncrediMail,Karen's E-Mailer,Kaufman Mail Warrior,KMail,LCARS Mail,Mac OS X Mail,Mail Commander,Marlin,MiniMail,Mozilla 1.7.x,MR/2 ICE,Mulberry,Musashi,Mutt,Nelson Email Organizer,Netscape 4.7x to 7.2x,Netscape 8.x,Nisus,Novell Groupwise,Opera M2,Outlook,Outlook Express,Pegasus,Phoenix Mail,Pimmy,Pine,PMMail 2000,PocoMail,Popcorn,PowerMail,Scientific Letter Email Program,Scribe,SeaMonkey,Starfish Family Mail,SweetMail,Sylpheed,Sylpheed Claws,TabMail,The Bat!,Thunderbird,VM,Wanderlust,WikMail,WordPerfect Mail,XCmail,XFMail,Web-mail Clients (GMail; Hotmail; Juno/NetZero; Yahoo; InBox; AIM/AOL; etc.),Other (Please list with link),
Don't Use E-Mail In Any Form.
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I realize this list is long, but I have tried to include Windows, Mac and Linux programs, as well as a sedlection for Web-Mail clients

If you have a favorite Web-Mail client, and I did not list in the Web-Mail selection, please list it below, along with a link, so we all may see and investigate for ourselves. (All links verified as of 8/6/2006)

Thank you for your time and vote.

Edit: It has come to my attention that I left out "Windows Mail", which is the Vista built-in client. If you use this, please indicate "Other", then post "Windows Mail" as your client.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19242694 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:12:31 EDT