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A review of The Next Generation of mail clients via SlashDot.

If your favoured flavour of email client is not in the list then please moan at the author not the messenger. Is anyone going to change email clients or give another one a try for a couple of weeks on the strength of this review?

Auric

 

As good as other mail clients might be the mail.app for the mac intergrates well with the address book, which in turn syncs with my phone, ipod and palm pilot.

In other words the mail app is the hub. MOzzilas rendition and eudora both seem good but do not talk with the address book app to keep all my contacts up to date.

Also the ical app (calender) syncs with palm and also logs into the address book to send email etc, again other mail apps are not going to offer this solution. Plus of course mail.app, addressbook.app, ical.app and Isync are all free on the mac.

For me there is no need to change, although I will download the latest mozzila build to see how its coming along.

 

I've started using Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express but TBH I hardly ever use a mail client on my PC at all as the web interface to my mail provider (www.fastmail.fm) is so good and with broadband there's no penalty for composing messages online. Also, since it's IMAP based instead of the hopelessly cr@p and outdated POP3 it means you can have folders and all that stuff on the "server" and synchronize locally when/if you feel like it. Thunderbird has better IMAP support than OE.

I only start up Thunderbird occasionally though just to get, effectively, a backup of all my mail folders...all 65Mb of them . However, I think that Fastmail's unix servers are probably a teensy bit more reliable than my PC.

Michael.