Why do I feel like I’m in a life-long struggle with email.
With all the possibilities of technology, email applications just aren’t very smart. It seems like once a year, whatever application I use, it takes a poop on my hard drive and I have to reinstall. What are those account passwords again?
So what’s the best email application? I’m not talking about Gmail either. I’m talking pop3.
Outlook
Outlook Express
The Bat!
Thunderbird
Eudora
You tell me.
Mozilla.com
-I would use mozilla thunderbird-
its pretty self explanatory.
I’m a long-time Bat fan, but I’m going to tell you what you don’t want to hear. I don’t use POP3 email anymore, only GMail.
I do have Outlook for the Exchange server at work, but even with that, I find myself using the web-based version we have setup instead of the application.
Used The Bat! for years, gradually began accumulating errors that the developers were uninterested in fixing: freezing during message download that required Task Manager to kill the program, inability to delete certain messages (at times); it is/was related to spam/viruses, but the only suggestion from the developers was to turn off my antivirus program (?!). Firefox is just fine–and free. I have never had respect for Eudora ever since, many years ago, I noticed that it did not support multithreading at a time when alternatives (particularly on OS/2) did. Finally, you’ve go to be crazy to use Outlook/Express, a sponge for viruses, trojans, etc.
I only use mozilla thunderbird, you can download themes to chage the look of it. I love it
I’m using thunderbird right now, but it seems like I’m coughing up errors with it now.
It will give me a notification that I have new messages, but there really aren’t any, for example.
BIG FIND…
gmail allows pop access!