I had used Thunderbird in the past, but I saw some comments here recently
that said the latest version wasn't too great (kinda clunky or cluttered?)
and so I wanted to poll the list to see what's popular in terms of an IMAP
email client.
That was me.
I never got around to thanking those who replied. Thanks everybody!
And to summarize:
I don't like webmail. I have yet to see a webmail interface that isn't
slow, glitchy and inflexible compared to fat-client email software--and
that's on a brand-new Win 7 32-bit machine with a 3.2 GHz processor, 4 GB
of RAM, and a 25 Mbps internet pipe.
Though I haven't tried Fastmail. :) But at $5 per account per month the
last time I checked, it's more than twice as expensive as most of its
competitors. We have more than 80 email accounts, so that matters. So I'm
not likely to try it.
Use of free (as in data-mining) email services, even with a fat-client
connection, is not acceptable for business purposes. It wouldn't be
acceptable to me on general principles, and is expressly verboten in my
case because it's not HIPAA-compliant.
In head-to-head comparisons in my experience, Eudora ("real" Eudora, not
Eudora graphics grafted onto Thunderbird) still performs faster, handles
very large mailboxes better, and is easier to understand for low-skilled
users, than any other email client I've seen--up until Windows 7, which,
for unexplained reasons in about 5% of identical installations on identical
hardware, suddenly attacks it and makes it impossible to use by
non-administrative users. So that ship has sailed, and, as so often happens
in the computer industry, "progress" has left me with no choice but to
accept an inferior product.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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