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Discussion in 'General Internet' started by Budo, 2011/04/02.

  1. 2011/04/02
    Budo

    Budo Inactive Thread Starter

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    It would be interesting to see which mail programs are the most popular among the BBS community .:)
     
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    MinnesotaMike

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    I use Thunderbird for all my email. I find that it's a good program and I've never had problems with it.
     
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    MrBill

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    Always used OE till Win 7. Then because it has no e-mail program, I use WLM. So does everybody else that I know that has Win 7. Looks like OE and Outlook combined to a point. Love it.
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Budo

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    Steve thanks for the link on favorite email posted a while back. I did a search for the question before I posted but didn't come up with any results so I'm glad to see it. Will be interesting to see how the favorites might have changed.
    I have been a long time user of Courier and wouldn't change it for anything.
    Budo
     
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    Rik541

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    I have POP3 with one flavor of reader or another since my IP was dial-up to Delphi (See the wiki). I have been using Outlook in Office 2007 since that came out but what I'll do next I'm not sure. Needless to say, I like my email to actually download to my PC, admitting there are pros and cons to that. I also have Gmail but really restrict who gets the address. My Android phone is set up to handle both mail accounts.
     
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  8. 2011/04/04
    rsinfo

    rsinfo SuperGeek Alumni

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    Thunderbird works for me.
     
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    fdamp

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    I have the POS that comes with Comcast. It's terrible. The user i/d is your e-mail address and if you have multiple accounts (I have two) there's no full function access to one when you're logged into the other. All you can do is copy over any new e-mails in the secondary account and read them. No other functions are available.

    I'm too busy to investigate alternatives at present, but I sure don't like "SmartZone ". That's the last name I'd use!
     
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  10. 2011/04/10
    ThomasJK

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    OE6 & Exchange

    I have two e-mail accounts, on my laptop with Win XP I use OE6. It´s OK for e-mail, not so convenient when reading newsgroups.
    On my desktop with Win95, I have MS Exchange. I think its also OK, it can also send and receive faxes. However, it cant read newsgroups.
    I dont quite understand, why it was described back in the 90´s as a "complete failure "?
    Just the normal MS bashing?
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I moved from Outlook Express to Outlook when migrating from XP > Windows 7 and never looked back :)
     
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    Jewel2008

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    I use OE and have never had provlems with it.
     
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