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Hello,

I am looking for the best email client that will allow me to check multiple mail boxes as well as the ability to load existing mail (from hard drive) in a reasonable timeframe.

Right now I only have a measly 10,000 emails, Outlook 2003 takes about 5 minutes to load, Thunderbird takes just as long. This is from the hard drive. Also, Thunderbird is unable to use it's own spam filters and rulesets, same with Outlook..

Therefore, what do you guys use for such a "large" mailbox? Outlook and thunderbird are out of the question for it's inability to do basic features. What else is there? Eudora went bloat before Outlook did, shockingly someone beat Microsoft to the punch.

The Bat is what I use and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Emh... I have a current number of 27872 emails in total using outlook express takes seconds to load each dir....
(1+ year older emails are backuped to dvd just because I don't need them).

About spam filters: You CAN make your own spam rules in outlook, it is possible its just not something a normal user would think of.

I have my own spam filter list which I use with outlook, works perfectly all spam is moved to the spam dir, or could be deleted automatically if I wanted.

So I wonder which are your system specs, perhaps thats the big issue.
Also, it doesnt matter how many emails you have, what matters is the amount of data... but, for listing the indexing is loaded pretty quick, at least over here 10.000 emails takes seconds to load...

Read about outlook's (outlook express is dbx) format and write your own client if not - express' lacks of some important features, but, I've never found it slow over here.

Hmm, then it's probably bloat they added into Outlook 2003 since thats what I (used to) use? These emails usually have attachments ranging from 5K to a few MB. Not much really but outlook 2003 and thunderbird drags like a cat in heat, its sad really. Ive installed The Bat!, and it definately beats Outlook and Thunderjunk up the yang! Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the tip!

Glad you like it It is also the most "configurable" when it comes to spam filters. It allows all kinds of flitering I couldn't do in outlook express.

Is it OSS or at least freeware ? doesnt seem so..

OSS and Freeware != Quality in most cases, imo.

Depends...
But I'm not paying for an email client when I could:

a) develop my own
b) stay with my current one which I never had any problems...

I choose B since I can't spend time on this right now

Hehe, almost sounds like me, never enough time Family guy?

Hi Shannara,

Just out of interest, how many of the apps that you use regularly and installed yourself are commerical (pay for) and how many are free?

Excluding games and anything that came with the OpSys (eg, IE and Outlook).

I run about 55% as freeware and OSS, and they were chosen because I prefer them.

Paid - Almost daily
Visual Studio 6 Pro
Visual Studio 2005 Pro
SQL Server 2005 Developer
Adobe Acrobat
Nero Burning Rom
FlashFXP
Daemon Tools
McAfee
PureBasic
Aurora
Photoshop CS2
Microsoft Office 2003
The Bat!
ArgoSoft Mail Server
mIRC
BizTalk 2004


Freeware/OSS - Almost Daily
Firefox
Tailbite
vBin
PBOSL
VideoLan
VNC Viewier
GuildFTPD


Roughly a 16 to 7 ratio? Is that 2:1?

Mozilla Thunderbird

Interesting.

I wonder what the general mix (commercial -v- free) is across the board (not developers).

Dare? Any chance you could post your software titles?

FoxMail...

Not free, but with very good spam filters

Also, you only need to backup it's directory, and unzip it later if you wanna install...

At work i use Thunderbird over stmp...

Nicer, faster and more stable than outlook