Email client... which one?

I prefer Outlook Express and I am tired of how Windows Live Mail works.
Kind of a "big button app" that I can not configure how I wish.
What email client do you like and why?

I am with Ann & John T, in that I use Outhouse, er-r-r, I mean Outlook. I also have MS Office.
I still miss my Eudora, but have gotten beyond that.
Now, I do not use e-mail all THAT much, and have MailWasher, in between my POP accounts and Outlook. I have it set to Full Manual, but it marks all those pesky Nigerian money-plots, and I have all my family and few clients marked as "Friends" in it, plus UAL, Hilton and a few dozen more. I never Send/Recieve in Outlook, until I have cleaned things out in MailWasher first - saves me a lot of time, and is easy to purge things, though I did notice that I just blew away an e-mail, notifying me that I had won the New Zealand Lottery...
Have not tried Thunderbird, as recommended by Peru Bob and Jim, but have read good recs. for it.
Good luck,
Hunt

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We use an intranet application database for CRM (ColdFusion) via Safari (5.0.3). Our accounts include email addresses which, when selected, previously opened a New Message in the email client of user's choice (whether Mail or Entourage, etc.)
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In my playing around with settings, somehow I have made the links not work on my MacBook Pro (10.6.6)!
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https://www.[site].com/secure/customer/log_email.cfm?id=481&mailto=[name]@[domain].org
Again, this WAS working fine in Safari on my MacBook Pro, but it is not now. I should point out that the email links ARE working in Chrome BUT NOT FireFox or Safari.
I have changed my default email client in Mail, back and forth, to see if this would make a difference, but it has not.
The CRM provider has said they haven't changed anything on their end (and again, it is working for many of our Macs).
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Hi,
On the iPads and iPhones. Tap Settings / General / Reset / Reset All Settings. Then restart the devices.
On the Mac for Safari. Try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file.
Quit Safari (Command + Q) Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder. Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari. See if made a difference. If not, try emptying the Safari cache from the Safari menu, Safari / Empty Cache or Command + Option + E.
Since you have changed the default Mail client several times, you may need to delete the com.apple.mail.plist file also from the user account: ~/Library/Preferences
Make sure to make note of all your Mail preferences first before delete that.plist file.
Carolyn

Default Safari email client

I get and preview some email using a webmail account before actually popping it into an email client.
One of the webmail options is to save the email directly which I had never done before.
Curiously, when I saved it, it downloaded and then opened my unused Microsoft Office 2004 and forced me to save it in Entourage. I never wanted to "test drive" the MS Office prouct, but now I am.
My real question is how to set the default Safari email client to my Mac Email?
I am not sure if my webmail service automatically looks for a MS client first but there are no setting there. It seems to me that since I am using Safari, the email client should be user-selectable.
It's not clicking on an email-to link, which works fine, but this is saving an email directly from a webmail account in Safari, and for some reason MS Office email was the default client.
I could delete the MS office trial and see what happens, but I would like to know if it is possible to set the default "save email to" link.
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Yes, I could pop it with Mail, but that's not the point. I eventually pop all my webmail onto a PC which contains all my email stored in Outlook, only because I started out using it.
When I do a "save as" using my webmail account directly, the extension of the downloaded file is .eml.
I did as you suggested and right-clicked it, selected "other" and chose Mail.app
The mail then appears as an attachment in Mail and when I click on the attachment, Entourage opens again.
I can only surmise that the webmail software, which I cannot control, uses MS as the default encoding for downloading. I don't know when the .eml extension is assigned but the encoding may simply be the result of the original sender's client. It makes sense that if the sender used MS to send the email that my webmail does nothing so the format of the email remains that of MS office.
That makes sense to me.

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Having struggled to make email work on the E71, I have now given up and accepted the fact that I will need to purchase a 3rd party email client which will provide Authentication which my server needs.
Can you suggest which one I should buy? And your experience of it?
Thanks!
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After spending endless hours achieving nothing but frustration I have given up on trying to access my email on our Microsoft Exchange Server using Mail for Exchange I have deleted the application from my Nokia E71 phone and given up completely trying to make this work. I have used the wizard spending endless totally unproductive hours entering in the settings required over and over again, I've installed the security certificate, I've had my tech guy make the correct settings on our server, I've deleted and reinstalled Mail for Exchange and deleted and reentered my profile information: email address, domain name, user name, password, exchange server... some times in the same session I've entered this information countless times. I have asked it to permenently accept the certificate more times than I can count. I would also like to add that my tech guy said he couldn't figure it out and he's a Microsoft Certified Professional. I would love to find another E71 owner in Calgary who has had success connecting to his company's Exchange Server and get his or her help. Everyone I know who has a Blackberry or an iPhone said they connected in minutes. I'm taking this phone back to Rogers, I'll pay out the contract and switch the the phone everyone said I should have purchased in the first place... the iPhone. I'm more than disappointed!
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How to create MAC JNI call to launch the native email client

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Which suggests that you want to open the actual email client, rather than using java itself to send the email.
However it doesn't answer why.
At any rate that requires the following.
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Problem with email clients- BT support clueless

Hi. I've been having a bizarre problem since migrating to the new BT mail. About 2 weeks after the migration, all of 3 of my email clients (thunderbird on a Mac decktop, outlook on a PC laptop, iPhone) started reporting the "server does not recognsise username/password" error. I followed through the online BT mail help instructions to make sure all of the email account settings were correct, which didn't help. I can access BT webmail directly with my username/password and via that changed my password, then updated it on my email clients. Initial joy! It worked and my clients could access my email accounts again. 24 hours later- same problem with all of my clients- server does not recognise username/password. The only way I can get them to work again is to repeat the process of changing my password via webmail, then updating the password on my email clients. This allows access for about a day, after which I get the same username/password error.
Eventually after about a month of this I decided to phone BT support. What a painful process. The guy on the other end of the line did his best, but unfortunately his English wasn't great. It took about 50 minutes of circular conversations for me to explain the problem. Eventually his anwer was that because the webmail was working properly, the problem must be with the email clients, which he couldn't help with. He advised me to take my laptop/iPhone/ to a local engineer to figure out what the problem must be. By this time I was really frustrated and asked to speak with the supervisor. He agreed that a) because the problem was with all three clients, and b) because changing the password on webmail and updating them then allowed them to work, albeit temporarily, that it was highly unlikely that the problem was with the client setup. However, he said that he wasn't able to help any further as my webmail is working properly!
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EvanR wrote:
Thanks for the advice, but I'm afraid this makes no difference at all to the problem.
After posting, the problem sorted itself out for a few weeks, it's back again today. Reading all of the other posts about the disaster which is the new bt mail system, I've decided just to leave it for a few days. It's obviously something at BT's side (although the support try to deny it). By the way, the support is totally useless. Promises to call back not kept, technically clueless etc.
If this keeps up I'm just going to go to gmail or some other email provider.
To clarify the situation can you please do the following concentrating on your PC Laptop.
1. Wait until you get the failure on Outlook.
2. Switch off (ie power down) your Mac desktop and Iphone.
3. Try Outlook again.
4. If the problem still occurs then login to webmail and logout WITHOUT changing your password.
5. Try Outlook again.
6. After 5. you can power up your Mac and Iphone
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Which email client / solution do you use?

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hrrm--the obvious questions, do you have the browser set up in the configuration file?
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Hello, My old email address which I have used as my apple id for 10 years is being made redundant. I have changed the email address to a new gmail one and this is my new apple id. But my iMac has not recognised this. It keeps saying it wants the pa

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With multiple Oracle Clients how do you know which one ADO is using

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