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16 Apr 2008, 06:15 AM | #61 |
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Perhaps. Who is behind MailPicker.com? There's nothing, not a word, in the website, about the company, or if it's a software project, or what. Surely, if I'm going to give someone access to my mail (other than my own mail host), I should know something about them?
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Looks like a pretty new service. Haven't heard of it but it was easy to register. 100mb of storage isn't much room to retrieve messages. It doesn't tell you if they remove or leave messages on server either. No support for Hotmail (of course!). BTW, welcome to EMD forums! |
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There is mail box settings where you can set up removing messages from server. P.S. they just changed max account size to 500Mb! Last edited by mister_twister : 17 Apr 2008 at 03:54 AM. |
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25 May 2008, 07:44 AM | #64 | |
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However, I was just using it the last couple days: - it's not stable in current OS X versions. I'm using a fully updated Leopard on an iMac. It's this instability that made me decide to forget it for good. - poor HTML rendering for really old reasons. - it has one of the most sadly awkward user interfaces I've EVER encountered. Once you figure the app out, it has unmatched functionality in some ways, but the interface?! Some of it is really unnecessary and gets more in the way than anything else. It makes very poor use of screen real estate.... I tried many options including non-MDI mode. - it's modal in behaviour. Once it's busy with a server there's no getting user input. You're in trouble if it's having trouble with a connection. From my POV, its short comings outweigh its benefits when compared to other options out there. There is a lot of attention paid to features that will interest a few and very little attention paid to making core functionality that all users would use, easily accessible, and the user interface less awkward and more intuitive. I can see why particular users would love it, but users that are willing to desensitize themselves to Mulberry's issues in order to use its special features, are a minority, and hence, Mulberry will likely remain a solution for such a minority. It may be the best for you, but it ain't the best .... period. That's a misleading claim to make. A heavy feature-set doesn't necessarily make it better than a very well put together client with a less esoteric feature set at a user's disposal. |
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When Cyrus went out of business I went back to a number of other clients. Kontact, Slypheed, Evolution, Claws, etc. etc. etc. Oh and of course Thunderbird, but I missed the speed and power I had with Mulberry. So when it went Open Source, oh yeah!!!!!! I currently use it on Window's, Linux and Solaris, works like a champ. As to "misleading claim", well that's your opinion |
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... as was yours. Just making sure that it's seen as such. |
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25 May 2008, 02:08 PM | #68 |
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It fills a niche and does it very well
As to coding, I know enough about coding to know to run away screaming Cheers |
25 Jun 2008, 01:29 AM | #69 |
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Best Email Client for Fastmail
I use Fastmail, brilliant, and tried most of the Email Clients out there with varying degrees of satisfaction.
Thunderbird, or the latest version of Eudora, I find work best. The other plus is that they are both FREE! Thunderbird is OK but, you have to keep going back to the Inbox to go to the next mail, unless it is a new one. The latest version of Eudora allows you to go up or down to mail, whether new or not, without going back to the Inbox. Only thing is, Thunderbird includes a Calendar whereas Eudora doesn't, yet! If you prefer Eudora, like me, then download Mozilla Sunbird as a Calendar. Ron |
25 Jun 2008, 01:39 AM | #70 |
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Best Email Client for Fastmail
Chad,
The best Email Client for Fastmail/Imap is Thunderbird, or the latest version of Eudora. Both have their advantages. Thunderbird has a Calendar, Eudora does not, yet! But there is always Mozilla Sunbird!. Have a look at http://www.eudora.com I know that your original post was some time ago but, please accept this in the spirit it was intended. ie Help Ron |
11 Jul 2008, 05:00 PM | #71 |
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Well I got bored and started messing around again with Claws Mail. I did run it about two or so years ago back when it was "Slypheed Claws". All I can say is "Wow!", they've really come a LONG way. It's fast and to be honest I've not run any tests but it feels faster than my beloved Mulberry.
The interface is nice, clean with a LOT of features under the hood. I'm running 6 different IMAP accounts on it and it is very "snappy". So far it's been very stable and a very nice/functional interface. Not trying to speak too soon but I'm going to run it for a couple more weeks and it just may replace Mulberry as my primary email client. Anyway it's worth taking a look at Claws Mail, you can get the source and there are a number binary downloads also. |
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I am using Alpine these last few weeks - it's pretty powerful imo
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14 Jul 2008, 07:32 AM | #73 |
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have a look at Windows Live Mail Client
OK I know we are all supposed to hate microsoft; and sometimes I do too. But ask yourself this -- would we be having this discussion if MS did not exist; my answer is -- maybe not. No other company has done as much to put a computer on every desk and in every home than MS - except maybe IBM when they released an open hardware platform in the early '80's - without that there'd be no MS either.
contrary to popular opinion the LiveMail Client (LMC) is NOT a clone of OE, indeed user interface wise Thunderbird is much closer to OE than is LMC. contrary to popular opinion LMC does not inherit the internals of OE, especially the .dbs mail store. Mail and news messages are stored as discrete .eml and .nws files respectively - the index (database if you must) can be reconstructed from the messages. Whilst I have not personally used it for IMAP, those that do say it works fine, many folks use it to access gmail IMAP accounts. it's NNTP features aren't too shabby either, better than many others for text groups at least, haven't used with binary groups. I am not saying that LMC is the best, because that introduces attributes such as beauty and charm which, unless your a physicist, are subjective qualities. But it is a worthy candidate. BTW I am thinking of changing back to Thunderbird, why you may well ask, given the accolades you just gave to LMC - see Thunder Browse! |
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what I said was "...except maybe IBM when they released an open hardware platform", open is not in the Jobs vocab - anyway altair was before apple.
IBM sold more XT's in the nine months after its release than apple sold in the preceding 5 years, its not first that counts, its most that counts. It's also worth remembering that the success of the Apple II was in part because of its inclusion of Basic as a programmers language, I wont remind you of where that came from. And don't say but apple invented the gui/wimp interface - they didn't - they stole from xerox (the courts said so), MS licensed it from xerox - that's why that silly xerox dir is installed with Windows - it serves as a copyright notice. I installed Thunderbird and hooked up to a fastmail guest account, the Thunderbrowse extension is pretty cool - which is the thing that triggered me being here. |
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