Hi Folks,

I'm seeking recommendations on good free (as in beer) Windows POP/SMTP

email clients that run on Windows 7 or later. I would like to hear from

people who have experience using the software that they are recommending.

I have always preferred Eudora, but the "real" Eudora (not the aborted

Thunderbird conversion) is no longer being produced. It does not work

reliably on Windows 7.

We can and do use Thunderbird, but in our environment, in which people

regularly use several different email accounts, the interface can be

confusing for some people. Also, it can be pretty slow while doing its

various internal processing things such as compacting, reindexing, and

processing junk mail. And it does not handle very large mailboxes well at all.

I have looked at Pegasus but it seems to me to be needlessly complex for my

purposes, and while configuration to simplify the interface (somewhat) is

possible, the tools necessary to do that are spread all over the place.

It's not a well-organized piece of software in my opinion.

I have not looked at Windows Mail, though I would consider it if I had to.

Please, don't tell me I should use IMAP instead of POP/SMTP. Also, I am not

interested in using MS Outlook or an Exchange server.

Here's what I need:

- Dead simple for the most unskilled computer users

- Handles ordinary POP3/SMTP on original standard ports (110/25) without SSL

- Can either incorporate multiple accounts in a simple interface, or can be

deployed as multiple installations on the same machine, one per account

- Does not choke on very large mailboxes (as in, 10,000 or more messages)

(I know it's ridiculous but I have people here who insist they have to keep

everything forever, and I am not allowed to argue with them)

- Allows me to turn off any preview pane

- Does not open attachments automatically

- Works cooperatively with Avast! antivirus

- Allows me to turn off executable content in email messages

- Sends attachments as attachments, NOT embedded in the message

- Sends quoted text inline, not as an attachment or "eml" file

This should be a fun opportunity for people to argue about the "best" email

client. :)

Thanks for any suggestions.

Ken Dibble

www.stic-cil.org

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Ken Dibble wrote:

> Hi Folks,

>

> <snip>

> We can and do use Thunderbird, but in our environment, in which people

> regularly use several different email accounts, the interface can be

> confusing for some people. Also, it can be pretty slow while doing its

> various internal processing things such as compacting, reindexing, and

> processing junk mail. And it does not handle very large mailboxes well

> at all.

We use thunderbird here and pretty happy with it. I'm still using

version 2.0.0.24 which does everything I want and the interface is much

simpler than later versions. Setup is also a lot easier. The stupid

setup "Wizard" they put on later versions really is a joke. Maybe you

could consider an older version.

I have some archived messages that I just move to a subfolder when I get

to 15-20k records. The mailbox file size is usually under 2gb and we

don't have any problems with them. We have noticed problems when the

mailbox gets to about 4gb or more. We are constantly trying to get

people to file messages from their inbox and sent folders (to

subfolders) and compact them but it is a hard process. People here also

want to keep everything forever, which is fine but they have to be filed

away in subfolders. Some people here have 50Gb of emails! With regular

compacting not had any problems.

> This should be a fun opportunity for people to argue about the "best"

> email client. :)

We had a look round a while ago but didn't see anything better that did

all we wanted.

Peter

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If you don't want to use Thunderbird, pay for Outlook/Exchange, or a

superior browser-based front end to a paid hosted service like Fastmail,

then ... um ... er ... I think you're probably out of luck, on Windows

at least. Standalone email clients seem to be a thing of the past as

everyone either uses the best one, which is Outlook, or a browser-based

one.

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and what about using .. VFP ? with Winsock it works really good (in fact I only

send messages (mailing campaigns) and I never try to receive them ...) and you

have acces to each 'parameter' !

Francis Faure, a MVP, built a class around Winsock and I have built classes

around it.

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My life is built around Outlook but my wife uses Windows Live Mail which

seems to do most of the things you want. It is a free download for Win 7,

designed to operate with it. It is as simple as most of the ones I have

seen and definitely easier to use than Gmail or Outlook.com (nee Hotmail).

John Weller

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