What do you recommend I use after Mozilla Mail? I've been looking at Pine for Windows but I don't have 3 hours to spare to configure it, although I imagine it would be a rock solid client indeed. I really need a client that can import my old Mozilla emails... Thanks

Sorry like a complete arse I have posted this in the wrong forum. My apologies...

Well apart from Pine, the other mail programs I've seen mentioned around here are Pegasus Mail, Foxmail and of course Thunderbird. Out of those the best featured one would have to be Foxmail.

Check it out here:
http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm

Well 3 hours was not needed! I've archived my old Mozilla Mails and am proceeding with using Pine which is feature rich if not exactly user friendly! Thanks anyway...

Foxmail is a great client, but it can't import directly Mozilla.

You must import in OE, and then import from OE

While I think Foxmail is a pretty good client...doesn't it embed IE for HTML messages? I use The Bat! by the way.

While I think Foxmail is a pretty good client...doesn't it embed IE for HTML messages? I use The Bat! by the way.

Normally it does, however if you want to you can use the IE2Mozilla patcher to embed Gecko into instead, so whenever it displays HTML Gecko will be doing it for you. Oh and you don't need to install the Mozilla suite either to achieve this: the GRE that comes with K-Meleon (or Forefox) will suffice.

http://aab.spin.ee/misc/ie2mozilla/

I use Foxmail with Gecko engine (1.5b from K-Meleon)

It works, except it's now impossible to create html message (no problem, I always send in text/plain format)

There's also an error message when wieving an html message (a Foxmail bug), but it works

Personally I despise anyone who sends me html mail, and think html mail should be banned altogether.

The client I mostly use is Popcorn. It is surely the lightest and safest pop3 mail client I have ever seen. It doesn't store mail on your computer, only reads it from the server when necessary.

What makes it completely safe is that it doesn't support attachments or even html. This is naturally it's greatest limitation as well, and forces me to have another, heavier client installed as well... But for my usual mail reading I much prefer Popcorn because it is extremely fast, light, and yes, safe...

I just checked their homepage, though. Apparently they have changed it into a shareware program. Apparently the only restriction in the free version is that you can have only one account profile. (Which wouldn't matter to me as I only use one... But still...) I hate it when people come up with a good thing and then get greedy.

Elcalen,

I wrote about Foxmail 2.1 in another thread. It allows you to check headers on the server and download/retain, download/delete or delete from server without ever downloading the actual file. It can be setup to do HTML via IE or you can turn that option off and it will save an HTML version to your inbox that you can then either delete or open as you choose. It does support attachments, but I want that in an email program. It won't auto open them though which is one complaint about OE.

Nick

I haven't tried most of these programs you mentioned, mainly because I don't want a lot of hassle with mail *clients* when I deal with mail *server* hassles all day at work.

I use TBird (Moz Thunderbird). I had to get a few extensions to make it functional, but now it is my preferred (Windows) mail client.

I also use Popcorn, a real classic..:

http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn

Lightweight,no bloat,no registry-trashing,no installation,very fast etc...
Reads mail direct from the mail-server, choose what to download...
Only accepts text in client, thus very safe too...
It do support attachments now also...
Free version as said before does just support one account but I just use that anyway, so...
Strange people behind it though...

Phoenix Mail Roundabout is quite nice: http://roundabout.sourceforge.net/
It's basically Phoenix Mail with a Modern Interface. It uses its own rendering engine I believe, I can confirm it does not embed IE. It has a simple, lightweight interface, like K-Meleon. And it's Open Source. I consider it the perfect complimentary product to K-Meleon...

Is Mozilla mail not working? I have set Thunderbird0.8 as an external application, and you can have everything which you had in Mozilla Mail.

If you want to try a really good free email client & Spam remover , this is very good .

I can look at my mail on the ISP's server , delete ( spam removal ) , reply , click on links & if I want it on my comp , click on Move to > Archive .
Use right click for some of the functions .

You can still leave any other email client installed . Just a matter of choosing which one you want as default .

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