Which mail client(like outlook or thunderbird) is better?

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  senthilm

  waiting for your replies members..
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Thunderbird is by Mozilla & its Open Source, whereas Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office (and also available separately).
  
  I believe there's no competition between Thunderbird or Outlook. Outlook is much more than just a mail client and typically used in offices to handle mail, meetings, scheduling, conferences etc.
  
  I personally use Outlook to handle all my email. The only disadvantage I've noticed so far is that when your mailbox grows beyond several hundred MBs, Outlook degrades in performance. However, the performance may depend on lot of other factors as well.
  
  I haven't faced any security issues with Outlook 2007. It works great and it's very good at handling email.
  
  However, you should keep watch on Thunderbird. They released their latest beta 3-4 days ago and it looks promising. However, functionally its nowhere near to Outlook.
  
  Outlook is NOT free (rather very costly) and Thunderbird is free. If you are not a heavy mail user, I'd recommend Thunderbird to you. Else, Outlook's got no option.
  
  There are several open source mail clients available in the market. Thunderbird and Opera Mail client (not sure if its open source) are the ones you might consider. Else, there's Pandora Mail too.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Addendum:
  
  How could I miss evolution? Evolution comes very close to Outlook; but its currently available on on Linux platforms. Windows version of Evolution was released, however I"m not too sure about its performance.
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  Aashish Joshi

  I've used outlook once, the one that came with office xp. The poor bugger pleaded me to stop when I tried synchronizing it with my gmail inbox which has about 1GB of e-mails 😁
  
  Currently use Evolution
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  mad_scientist

  I've used outlook once, the one that came with office xp. The poor bugger pleaded me to stop when I tried synchronizing it with my gmail inbox which has about 1GB of e-mails 😁
  
  Currently use Evolution

  How did you synch it up with Gmail? POP or IMAP?
  
  My guess is that IMAP loads slower with Gmail. 😡
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  Aashish Joshi

  Yes, it was IMAP..
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  gohm

  I use Outlook heavily at work as do many folks. I've never heard of the other options. I use web based for personal e-mail. POP linking via a pc based e-mail client to me is too much of a pain. I freely admit I am an IT dunce so that may be why, laugh.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Outlook does the job perfectly and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a good software to manage email.
  
  As I said, the only issue I faced is with Outlook's performance when the mailbox grows over a GB.
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  Anil Jain

  Though I am using Outlook as per my company policies. However I am a big fan of Thunderbird, which I used in my earlier organization.
  
  Meanwhile, Biggi Thunderbird had all the features which which Outlook had like mail, meetings, scheduling, conferences etc.
  
  -CB
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  senthilm

  Most of you Suggested thunderbird and evolution.I will use and post my reviews in this thread.Thanks for the response, forum members.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Have you tried Windows Mail (Earlier called Outlook Express). It does the job as well.
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  senthilm

  I see.Not yet I tried this windows mail. I am new user to mail clients.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  What operating system do you have? If its Vista, you should see Windows Mail. Configuring it is very easy.
  
  If you have XP, you'll have Outlook Express. Check them out.
  
  However, unless you are absolutely sure that you want to use Desktop Mail client, continue using web mail client.
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  vik001ind

  I prefer Thunderbird, that works best for gmail but for other email server such as yahoo you have to download softwares like pop peeper but thats illegal as stated by yahoo terms & conditions.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  vik001ind

  I prefer Thunderbird, that works best for gmail but for other email server such as yahoo you have to download softwares like pop peeper but thats illegal as stated by yahoo terms & conditions.

  Yahoo enabled POP for its accounts, right? Or they're still rigid.
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  I have been using Outlook since 3 years 😀
  
  I dont have any idea of the others.
  
  
  Thanks for posting this will learn a bit about these 😀
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  Anil Jain

  By the way, I am surprised that outlook couldn't get a place in the Poll.
  
  -CB
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  vik001ind

  The_Big_K

  Yahoo enabled POP for its accounts, right? Or they're still rigid.

  Free yahoo email service doesn't allow pop access.
  you can get POP access with yahoo! mail plus for $20 / year.
  I read it from here!
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