Posted on 12/04/2020 11:34:55 AM PST by Chuckster
I have been using Eudora or Eudora Pro since the nineties.
It has finally quit working (again) and before I go through the process of trying to make it work(again), which could take all day(again), I thought I would take the cowards way out and ask for advice from my most trusted source. Free Republic
What course of action, or new software would FReepers choose?
A charming example of FReeper help you can (sometimes) get:
“Are you logged in?”
Thunderbird from Mozilla. It’s free. It learns what’s junk and what’s not and is infinitely configurable. I’ve used it for almost 10 yeaqrs and love it. It’s quite a lot like Outlook Express which I dumped for Thunderbird.
Gmail
I use Microsoft outlook which is synced up to my Blackberry. Been using Outlook for quite a while and works well with plenty of features.
At work I use Thunderbird because that is what we use at work. For my personal email, I no longer use a client. My main email is a Yahoo email and I have others with Gmail. On my phone I have apps for Yahoo and Gmail. I don’t like wasting a lot of space downloading email to a client.
I like thunderbird.
I use Google Mail as my main email and Yahoo! Mail as my backup. Mostly because I don’t want to deal with having to configure email settings and both of them do a pretty good job of filtering out spam nowadays.
Thunderbird here too...been using it for years without issue.
I think I am the only one left on AOL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#Operating_system_support
Claws Mail is pretty good
I use Thunderbird and Evolution but Evolution is only for Linux.
Eudorka?
Many, you need to get off your 3Com dial up connection and move away from AOL...
Thunderbird. Free, open source (So no sneaky crap in it) and doesnt have the silly gold plating MS sticks in their stuff. If you get the contacts and calendering addon (also free) it is the equivalent of Outlook. Easy to use. Runs fast. Not complicated.
That said, you can probably make nearly anything work, except MS Outlook, if your email provider uses standard IMAP or POP service.
MS Outlook only works reliably with MS Exchange mail servers, in my experience. You can twist its arm to work with non-MS mail systems, but in time the arm always snaps back to "Exchange" position.
So, IMO, Thunderbird.
You two are disqualified from ever giving IT advice. Seriously.
Poster asked what car should they buy and you two said Route 66 is a great drive. Please... never ever again give IT advice even under threat of bodily harm.
I started with Eudora in 1995, switched to Netscape 1-9, and now use Opera.
BUMP to Thunderbird. They have a portable version that you can take with you to check your email.
portableapps.com
Correction: I now use Thunderbird v78.5.1 for email, and Opera v72.0.3815.400 for my browser, along with Pale Moon v28.14.2.
The nice thing was that Netscape had email built-in, if you wanted to use it.
There is a good Netscape v9 Archive at:
https://archive.org/details/tucows_193763_Netscape
&
http://ftp.vim.org/netscape/netscape9/en-US/9.0/windows/win32/
Get an Office 365 account.
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