Which Mail Program Do People Use?

Ps76 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:36 pm

Hi

Apologies if this has been asked before just wondering what email people were using these days. Personally I have Hotmail which has now turned into Windows Live (a little more bloated and a little too much security which I can't turn off in my opnion so far). Also have a Mail.com account which recently also went from emai to email with news etc. (which again unfortunately there is no way for me to turn off so far).

So just wondering what email people were using/if they were happy with it etc.?

Many thanks for any info etc.

P.

plateman · Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:43 pm

I use a bunch based on where I am but my primary is GMAIL. It's great. Easy to navigate, allows you to archive into folders, fast. I have been very happy with it.

Brian

don81603 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:54 pm

I have numerous accounts with Hotmail (4), Yahoo (3). As well as 3 or 4 others I use for personal and work activities. With the exception of the hotmail and yahoo accounts, I can access all my emails easily via MS Outlook.

MYT332 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:01 pm

Microsoft Outlook 2007 with everything coming in on POP3 from my domain.

mhodgson · Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:22 pm

Mozilla Thunderbird, which receives POP3 mail from my ISP and also Google Mail.

I also have a Yahoo account which I rarely use.

ag92 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:40 pm

Microsoft Outlook for my main email. I have a hotmail for MSN and google for all the features

LHRjc · Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:42 pm

Outlook 2007 for my Hotmail and Gmail.

pencrypted · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:02 pm

Outlook at work for my exchange account. Thunderbird everywhere else for my personal accounts

ajd1992 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:02 pm

Thunderbird, as well as webmail for my own domain.

MadameConcorde · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:08 pm

Yahoo mail mostly. The email facility from my ISP is worthless. box

ThePRGuy · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:11 pm

Quoting Myt332 (Reply 3):

The first words of sense I have heard you speak!

Quoting Mhodgson (Reply 4):

Pah! I used thunderbird for a while, but its just so long winded, and simple things like signiatures and send and receive are 100 times easier elsewhere.

I've got Mail and OE2007 like myt332

Alex

N231YE · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:12 pm

Microsoft Mail, included with Windows Vista. I used to use Outlook 2003, until I upgraded to Office 2007 Home & Student Edition which no longer includes Outlook.

AF340 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:16 pm

Let's see...

Windows Live Hotmail

Gmail (filters into hotmail)

Rogers/Yahoo (filters into hotmail)

and for school:
Novell Groupwise

Liam

[Edited 2008-01-27 09:29:06]

aloges · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:26 pm

Thunderbird for my main account (GMX), Yahoo! account and uni account. My GMX account retrieves e-mails from an ISP account I have once a day.

Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 10):
send and receive

It's as easy as in Outlook Express for me. It's called an add-on and goes by the name of MagicSLR. Wink

Like Firefox, Thunderbird needs a few add-ons to be attractive to me... which is exactly how it's supposed to be.

LH423 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:56 pm

I use Gmail (2 addresses) and the service through my university.

LH423

lobster · Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:07 pm

Unfortunately I have to have three email accounts.

For all my friends I use my ISP's POP3 which I use Outlook Express for.

For all Army stuff, I have to use my AKO account.

For anything else, I use my yahoo account. For stuff like Amazon, or whenever I have to give my email away and don't want spam.

mhodgson · Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:42 pm

Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 10):
Pah! I used thunderbird for a while, but its just so long winded, and simple things like signiatures and send and receive are 100 times easier elsewhere.

I don't find it any worse than anything else I have used - send and receive is just a click of a button; and I don't use things like signatures. I used Outlook Express before Thunderbird and they are just as simple as one another to use; I opted for Thunderbird simply as it integrates better with Firefox.

j_hallgren · Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:48 pm

A variety of them:
Yahoo (3)
Juno (3)
Gmail (1)
PeoplePc (2)
MyRealBox (2)
Mail.com (1)
NetZero (1)
Verizon (1)
Lycos (2)

As you can see, I "collect" them! I use a great lil pgm called ePrompter to check on and retrieve in text form the mail from the 8 email addrs that I use most often daily...

Some of them are strickly used for only one function, like getting a particular newsletter...some are being held in reserve for future use...some are archive use only...

RedTailDTW · Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:31 pm

I have 3 Gmail accounts that I use. I am in the process of abandoning the first Gmail account since all my mail now goes to the 2nd or 3rd account. The second account is just a regular personal account. The third account is the one that was assigned to me at Arizona State Univ. so that's basically for college stuff.

Here are the accounts I used to have:

Hotmail (4)
Yahoo (2)
Excite (1)

Quoting J_Hallgren (Reply 17):
Lycos (2)

How do you like Lycos? I was gonna get an account there but I wasn't sure how good it does.

Mason

nighthawk · Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:02 pm

Quoting Myt332 (Reply 3):
Microsoft Outlook 2007 with everything coming in on POP3 from my domain.

same here - I used to use thunderbird via IMAP, but switched to Outlook and now use POP3 so I can use AVG Spam filter. Its pretty good at cutting out all the crap from my inbox.

NeilYYZ · Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:08 pm

I have 1 Yahoo, 1 Rogers, 1 G-Mail, 1 University of Windsor account and all are collected through MS Outlook 2007.

HAWK21M · Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:41 pm

For Work its Outlook Express on Exchangenet.

Personal its mainly Yahoo, & for applying at sites its Hotmail & Gmail.

regds
MEL

NWADC9 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:46 pm

I have GMail (primary), Hotmail (the DC-9 of my email fleet-retiring, but surely no sign of it going anytime soon), and the school.

desertjets · Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:54 pm

Quoting Mhodgson (Reply 16):
Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 10):
Pah! I used thunderbird for a while, but its just so long winded, and simple things like signiatures and send and receive are 100 times easier elsewhere.

I don't find it any worse than anything else I have used - send and receive is just a click of a button; and I don't use things like signatures. I used Outlook Express before Thunderbird and they are just as simple as one another to use; I opted for Thunderbird simply as it integrates better with Firefox.

Actually I agree that setting up things like sig files, which I do use, in Thunderbird is a bit of a pain in the ass. In fact a lot of things in Thunderbird are a pain in the ass if you want to adjust settings, play w/ filters..... and the documentation for average users from Mozilla is pretty piss poor. That said I still use Thunderbird for my university account and Yahoo for junk, online shopping, etc.

carmenlu15 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:08 pm

3 Gmail accounts: the main personal one (which I check online), the work one (download all mail to Outlook 2003 on the work PC), and the a.net crew one (a "Gmail for your domain" account, used to download it to Thunderbird on the home computer, but went back to checking it online last time I had a BSOD). In addition, I have a Yahoo account, which used to be my main account before I switched to Gmail; and a Hotmail account, which I use only for MSN Messenger.

LHStarAlliance · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:15 pm

Quoting Ps76 (Thread starter):
So just wondering what email people were using/if they were happy with it etc.?

I'm using Yahoo! it's far better than Hotmail , it's incredible but after 3 Months I have 1078 Spam mails on my Hotmail ! In yahoo maybe 4 or 5 ...

Constantin

LTU932 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:21 pm

I have 2 Hotmail accounts (one with an MSN.com domain) 1 Web.de, 1 Yahoo and 1 GMAIL account, all of which I manage through Microsoft Outlook 2007.

a380us · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:27 pm

i too use gmail
its just so much easier than hotmail and the like

MD-90 · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:40 pm

Yahoo! and Mississippi State's WebMail.

ThePRGuy · Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:53 pm

Quoting Aloges (Reply 13):

It's as easy as in Outlook Express for me. It's called an add-on and goes by the name of MagicSLR.

If I'm honest, emails are emails, I rely on them for money and to have to fart around for a while getting a program to just work is a seriously unattractive option.

aloges · Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:10 pm

Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 29):
If I'm honest, emails are emails, I rely on them for money and to have to fart around for a while getting a program to just work is a seriously unattractive option.

Well, I guess Firefox and Thunderbird are not for everyone. Wink

I like TB though; once I got the hang of it, it all started to make a lot of sense. For example, it interacts beautifully with GnuPG which I use for signing my e-mails... wouldn't want to know what a nightmare that would have been in Outlook Express.

ThePRGuy · Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:57 pm

Quoting Aloges (Reply 30):
Well, I guess Firefox and Thunderbird are not for everyone.

Woah I'm not saying its a bad app, but its not a business App. I use FF on a day to day basis, takes down Safari and IE like nothing else would or could.

Mail and OE for me though for my mail!

Alex

IH8BY · Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:05 pm

Thunderbird for my POP3 ISP mail (and previously for my university IMAP mail), which is serious stuff such as work or money, and Hotmail via the web for social stuff (though using facebook and the like, plus a pay monthly contract with a decent allowance, has cut down the amount of email I send to friends).

LFutia · Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:00 am

G-mail is the best! I use G-mail and hotmail.

Leo

j_hallgren · Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:57 am

Quoting RedTailDTW (Reply 18):
Quoting J_Hallgren (Reply 17):
Lycos (2)

How do you like Lycos? I was gonna get an account there but I wasn't sure how good it does.

Most all the other sites have better interfaces, IMO, and I use them now mostly for "throwaway" purposes, like net sign-ups, etc...

Jetsgo · Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:29 am

I've only got one email address and it is with Gmail. Absolutely love it. I retrieve it through Thunderbird, which works flawlessly. I've used Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail, but for some reason I prefer Thunderbird.

In the past I have had Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts which served their purpose just fine.

RayChuang · Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:33 am

I use Yahoo! Mail and Gmail primarily, mostly because both online email systems have excellent spam blocking controls.

Fantikerz · Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:41 am

Yahoo mail only because I have all of my archives there, it really isn't too bad. I also have Gmail, which is quite good.

AF340 · Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:09 am

Quoting ThePRGuy (Reply 31):
I use FF on a day to day basis, takes down Safari and IE like nothing else would or could.

Try Maxthon, it's an opensource browser, but faster than any other one i've tried (i.e. IE, Safari, Opera, FF, Netscape)

Liam spin

asuflyer05 · Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:22 am

Work - Exchange/Outlook - Blackberry mail Service
Personal - Yahoo - Blackberry eMail service

LHRjc · Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:13 am

At work, Lotus bloody Notes, plus a Blackberry. I hate it. It's awful, especially when I use Outlook for my home email. banghead

ThePRGuy · Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:58 am

Quoting DesertJets (Reply 23):

The basic shell is there, it just needs improving, and quick...

On the run I use an HTC TyTn and the built in app there for my mobile addresses.

Alex

OlegShv · Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:09 pm

MS Entourage does it for me. It's like Outlook for Mac OSX, but better and prettier than its Windows sibling.

Regards,

Oleg.

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