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What's as good as Mail in Windows?
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Join Date: May 2002
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Not too sure what forum this goes in but I figured I'd try here.
I love Mail in Mac OS X on my desktop, but I recently bought a Dell laptop (before the MacBooks, yes, I was upset after) and I can't find an email program that works as well with my .Mac email account. I've tried Outlook but I can't get the spam filter to work on the .Mac account, I've tried Thunderbird and I just don't like it, and Eudora doesn't have spam blocks in the free version. Does anyone here know something that would work well with .Mac for Windows?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Thunderbird is all my PC friends talk about. Assumed it was nice.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Just forget Outlook. IMAP on Outlook is a farkin nightmare...
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Thunderbird is your best option. If you don't like it due to aesthetics, you can reskin it.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Yeah, Thunderbird is as Mail-like as you're going to find on Windows. I use it daily.
Any particular reason you didn't like it?
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Sorry, that's what you get for buying a Windows machine.
Caveat emptor and all.
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Addicted to MacNN  Join Date: Jul 2005
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You can get e-mail on a Windows machine?
Whodathunkit.®
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Join Date: Sep 1999
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Originally Posted by faragbre967
and Eudora doesn't have spam blocks in the free version. Does anyone here know something that would work well with .Mac for Windows?
How about the paid Eudora?
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Thunderbird is your only option.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Thunderbird is better than Mail, IMHO. At least Thunderbird never freaks out and forgets to move spam to the junk folder (Mail does this at least once a month on my wife's iBook).
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Just forget Outlook. IMAP on Outlook is a farkin nightmare...
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you're damn right it is. try deleting an e-mail in the IMAP INBOX and all it does is put a strikethrough in the e-mail and doesn't get deleted.
but you know, it doesn't surprise me. just because outlook can support IMAP doesn't mean it's going to work correctly. just like Internet Explorer, which is STILL, to this day, not fully standards compliant.
i use thunderbird as an IMAP client on my windows box and it gets the job done, but definitely not as good as mail. mail's the best!
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Actually in that case, Outlook IS working correctly. IMAP delete is only a flag. To truly delete you have to use Expunge. So Delete and then Expunge. Its just that Outlook isn't very user friendly in this area.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Still, Outlook's IMAP implementation is buggy at best.
-t
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