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My favorite forum for this kind of question (and 2nd favorite overall after this one, Virtual Doctor) seems to have been hit, since it spends a full minute or more "waiting" after each click, so I'll try here. You guys obviously use email quite a bit...

I used Outlook for quite a few years, then switched to Thunderbird when I started using Firefox. FF is great, but imho Thunderbird sucks. I tried Eudora and didn't like it. I've used a couple of webmails (Squirrel and Hoarde) and still use the former as sort of a "filter" to avoid bringing spam onto my computer. Tried Mailwasher and found it to be more irritating than useful. I actually liked Outlook the best.

Any suggestions? The ability to import my existing mail from Thunderbird would be a plus.
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yeah... Outlook is fine.
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I used Outlook and The Bat! as desktop mail clients (mutt for unix command line), Gmail and a lot of other services as web-mail...
Outlook and Gmail appear to be the best choice for me at the moment (though I miss a configurability of The Bat! sometimes).
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Thanks, guys. I'm leaning toward a return to Outlook. I did find an extension that puts the address book into the lower left panel ala Outlook, so that helps, but...
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what do you dislike about thunderbird. it works a heck of a lot better than outlook express did for me when having multiple email addresses
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Outlook 2003 is very good, IMO.
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ya but don't you have to pay for that? thunderbird being free is absolutly amazing. i don't see why people might not like it.
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I use SpyMac 1GB, GREAT service and support. Too bad their servers are a tad slow.
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shiznatix wrote:ya but don't you have to pay for that?
Well, you should, be we all know that hardly anyone does (outside of companies).

Oddly, however, I paid for my copy.
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shiznatix wrote:ya but don't you have to pay for that?
So what? My company paid for that, why wouldn't I use Outlook when I'm at work?
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BECAUSE I SAID SO! ha no what im really wondering is why people think
but imho Thunderbird sucks
thats my question!
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My main objection was that the address book was so separated from the client app itself. To simply send an email one had to first open the email app, then open the address book. Finding the extension to incorporate the address book into the email app in the lower left panel was a major improvement. (The previous time I had looked at extensions that one was not among them.)
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Post by Skara »

Thunderbird is ok and that's about it. I have five or six email addys (I unfortunetly need all of them) that I have all forward to my Gmail account. Then I just have filters that mark where they came from and aliases to reply back as who they were sent to. ^_^
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Yea, if you're used to Outlook then Thunderbird can be a bit underwhelming. I used Outlook for a couple years, but switched to Thunderbird since I didn't need the calendaring and all that at the time. Lightning (Thunderbird/Calendar integration) sounds promising, but major Thunderbird/Lightning collaboration isn't planned until after the 1.5 release.
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Outlook 11 for the account I use less often but need to keep most organised (for work) - quite fond of Outlook, and it's useful to have the PIM built in.

Thunderbird for most else on the computer, and webmail clients on the laptop.
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