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Old 17 May 2005, 05:37 AM   #1
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FYI - review of email clients

EMD forum members may be interested in the "competitive" review of email clients over at

http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews...ent/index.html

The "winner" of the review is TheBat!

Regards,

Jeff
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Old 17 May 2005, 06:00 AM   #2
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I have some questions. Who is Donationcoder? How are they differ from a blogger posting his opinion?

Some problems with the review

"it's certainly not the easiest program to setup, and if you truly fear such things, you might look elsewhere - this review/award is focused on power users"

"We tried a lot of email clients for this review. As long time users of TheBat!, we admit to being a little biased by a genuine fondness for the program."

And they did run tests for IMAP.
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Old 17 May 2005, 06:08 AM   #3
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The Donation Coder site setup is explained there. See the About link on the top right hand corner of the home page. As I have indicated elsewhere on this forum the site does solicit funds so please take the usual precautions. I have found it to be a useful and informative site. And there are some programmers with experience contributing to the forums. Pocomail seems to be a favourite of some there.

And yes, it is only one opinion. The reviewer is an experienced programmer/computer user but no less or more so than many others.

Jeff

PS I don't personally use an email client I have purchased. I use mostly web interfaces with Thunderbird and Outlook Express at home and Outlook at work.
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Old 17 May 2005, 06:32 AM   #4
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Here is what that same site has to say about Thunderbird:

Thunderbird

Although somewhat overshadowed by its bigger brother, FireFox, this email client is still managing to make some waves in the email scene. It's an Open Source program and has very rapidly managed to build a feature set which rivals the best commercial email clients, with a modern and professional look and feel.

In our view, it's still experiencing some growing pains, and needs some more maturing before it can be recommended as a power-user email client, but at the rate it's been progressing it may not be too long before it becomes a serious contender for best email client.
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Old 18 May 2005, 01:44 AM   #5
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Another plug

When I was looking around for a good client that worked well with IMAP Mulberry was always recommended as the best. So I tried it, I must admit it took a bit to get used to the interface. But once I really started using it I quickly found that there is not a better IMAP client out there.

So I have to put my plug in for Mulberry, I use it on Windows, Linux and Solaris. I have not found a better client for IMAP, so there's my plug.

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Old 18 May 2005, 02:00 AM   #6
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Is Thunderbird the only free IMAP email client?? I have Microsoft Office 2003 at home which includes Outlook and I have used Outlook Express in the past. I use Outlook at work but dont like so never use it at home. I much prefer Thunderbird. I am loathed to pay to use another email client only to find I do not like it.

What is Pine like? I believe that is free. I would like out of interest just to try another email client but do not want to commit myself.

I did try Incredmail. It was awful I then could not remove it from my PC!!

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Old 18 May 2005, 02:06 AM   #7
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Is Thunderbird the only free IMAP email client??
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What is Pine like? I believe that is free. I would like out of interest just to try another email client but do not want to commit myself.

I did try Incredmail. It was awful I then could not remove it from my PC!!

Helen
I think for free T-Bird is about the best out there, you might try Opera's Mail client which I've heard good things about. They have an ad supported version of the Browser but I'm not sure about the mail client.

Pine is really a good mail client but it doesn't have all the GUI bells and whistles.
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Old 18 May 2005, 02:10 AM   #8
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Hi,

Thanks I did try the opera browser but did not like it much prefer firefox. It useful to know Thunderbird is the best free email client. Having paid for Microsoft Office 2003 I do not feel like paying for another email client!!

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Old 18 May 2005, 02:15 AM   #9
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IMAP clients

Try this link to a database of IMAP clients. I use Mulberry and no it's not for free, but it consistantly comes out as the best IMAP client available. It's designed from the ground up for IMAP. Anyway check out the link

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Old 18 May 2005, 03:18 AM   #10
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Re: IMAP clients

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Originally posted by marcus0263
I use Mulberry and no it's not for free, but it consistantly comes out as the best IMAP client available. It's designed from the ground up for IMAP.
What is it you like about Mulberry that Thunderbird doesn't have?
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Old 18 May 2005, 03:46 AM   #11
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Re: Re: IMAP clients

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What is it you like about Mulberry that Thunderbird doesn't have?
The performance with Mulberry is better, it's designed from the ground up for IMAP. Actually one of the better known IMAP servers out there is the Cyrus IMAP server, same people design Mulberry.

Advanced configureation, I mean there's extensive features.

Built in SIEVE, LDAP, CalDav, WebDav and advanced IMAP support like ACAP. Many, many advanced configuration options pertaining to multipule identities and multipule account options. Actually the list goes on and on.

The GUI at first you say what the .....? But when you actually start using it it makes sense and is rather well designed. The performance is very very good and really shines when you have multipule accounts and identities.

Yes you have to pay and it covers multipule installations for yourself. I have a License and have it installed on Windows, Linux and Sun Sparc systems. The cost is $35 and it also gives me the option for a free upgrade to the 4.x version. So it really comes down to you get what you pay for. Don't get me wrong I really like T-Bird but after trying out Mulberry for a week I was hooked.
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Old 18 May 2005, 04:16 AM   #12
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Thanks for that. I will give it a try. Do you use the beta version?
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Old 18 May 2005, 04:34 AM   #13
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Thanks for that. I will give it a try. Do you use the beta version?
Yep, I used the beta on Windows and I'm currently using the alpha on Linux. I did have some issues (font related) with the alpha on Sparc Solaris, so I'm using the 3.16 version there.

I finally got fed up with XP and now I only use Linux and Solaris. But when I was using the M$ version of the 4x beta it worked well.

Give it a try and use it for at least a week and dig into the features, you'll get hooked. It takes full advantage of the IMAP protocol, and if needed you set up a POP3 account with it. But since I've went IMAP I haven't looked back
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Old 18 May 2005, 04:41 AM   #14
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Wow your right. I've downloaded version 4.0b3. The first thing that comes to mind is options. Where do I start?

I will be using IMAP so as you suggested I will give it a while and see how I get on. Just a quickie. Can you minimize Mulberry to the system tray?

Thanks again.
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Old 18 May 2005, 04:51 AM   #15
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I don't think so, I never really bothered looking. One Caveat with it which I've found. When you are connected behind a home firewall you might get a waiting on message. This issue is with the home firewall/router. There needs to be an options to keep alive the IMAP protocol on the firewall/router. I know at home I had a NetGear firewall and had a few issues with it there. The NetGear firewall would not end the protocol cleanly and this caused some issues, just wanted to give you a heads up.

Also the best option I've found for composing and reading mail is rich text. I don't like HTML email because of security issues, especially on a M$ platform. Like I said the GUI takes some getting used to, but check out the documentation on their website. Once you see what you can do with this bugger you'll be amazed, it does take full advantage of the IMAP protocol, WOW!

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