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Thread ID: 33702	2003-05-23 06:05:00	OT: What email client do you use.	-=JM=- (16)	Press F1

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146755	2003-05-30 12:28:00	I use Free Agent for mail & news. IE6 or Netscape 7 browsers. Mailwasher for Spam.	Mzee (158)
146756	2003-05-30 13:16:00	Outlook 5.5 Default with Win2k	Dylan (800)
146757	2003-05-30 18:20:00	> It has word correction it, I was looking at the list what a strange list of > words did you know if you spell "thegovernment" wrong it will auto correct > to "the government", then there are heap of [four?]-letter words were the > second and third letter has been transposed.... This I have long felt to be a weakness in MS Word; that if you ran two words together it didn't suggest putting a space in, but in later generations it has caught up. Eudora (my favoured email client) has always done it, and a word-processing program my daughters used to use when they were young for making greetings cards and the like (can't call the name of it to mind; it was filled with cartoons and whizz and splurt noises) had a spellchecker that did this; it was franchised by M'soft from someone else, whose checker was clearly better than Word. My test word is "sunglass". Eudora (and the greeting-card program) offer you both options: "sun glass" and "sung lass". MS Word, dammit, doesn't correct "sunglass" at all; it thinks it's a proper word (maybe I absentmindedly put it in the dictionary; can someone else test it?). With Word, "thegovernment" corrects automatically. Eudora offers the options: "the government" and "deliverymen" - God knows what the logic behind the second is! I have noticed that when I scramble a word. MS Word offers some guesses that make my attempt sound like something an especially dumb hilbilly might of wrote. Wish I could think of an example, but it's hard to do deliberately. I think with "efel", they have typos in mind (clumsy fingers), rather than genuine ignorance of the spelling. Eudora offers "feel", as does Word. Did you mean "four-letter words" as in "swear-words"? (You do realise fcuk is a company name? In fact two company names, and there has been a legal fight about it) :-) Eudora has an ingenious "rude-word" detector, which gives mails a zero- to three-chilli mark. You can get away with an innocent-but-sometimes obscene word like "screw", but if you put a genuine "four-letter-word" or two in the same message, you get a wiggly underline for "screw" too. Gratified to see it picks up any suggestion of violent language too, it doesn't dwell exclusively on sexual terms. But I don't use Eudora for its spellchecking, or its "Mood Watcher" function: I use it for its simplicity and its non-Microsoft-ness. I don't like to give too much over to MS by default, nor do I like too much integration: I'd certainly opt for keeping mail and browser separate, for privacy reasons. Using Outlook(Express), to my mind, is painting a target on your head for hackers and virus-spreaders. I suppose they'll get round to Eudora one of these days, and I might have to shift to Pegasus. Argus	argus (366)
146758	2003-05-30 19:37:00	Eudora, and no other . For reasons similar to the above, I beleieve using OE is indeed painting a target on oneself . My e-mail is critical to my business, and I need a stable reliable platform . Also Eudora is simple, uncomplicated and not deeply embedded in the system . I have successfully run it after a reformat, simply by copying the directory back and not "installing" it, as a test . Don't recommend it as the best practice, but it gives an insight into how it doesnt integrate like Microsoft's OE does . Backups are simple, and archived inbox and outbox files can ge opened simply by double clicking on them, which opens them in Eudora . All attachments are kept in a separate folder, which also lends itself well to backup .	godfather (25)
146759	2003-05-30 21:25:00	>Eudora, and no other. And would that be the freebie?	Thomas (1820)
146760	2003-05-31 00:36:00	> > Eudora, and no other. > > And would that be the freebie? Yes, I think so :)	stu140103 (137)
146761	2003-05-31 01:21:00	Actually No. I have a fully paid version (cost around $80 or $90 from memory for registration, would be less now with better exchange rate) I consider it some of the best value software that I have purchased, and I used it in ad-supported mode for about 3 weeks prior to registering. I will look at purchasing 5.2 one day, as my registration does not support versions over 5.1	godfather (25)
146762	2003-05-31 06:03:00	MSN Explorer!! lolz i like it aye!! simple and easy to use aye!! :) Synchronized_Thoughts	Synchronized_Thoughts (3860)
146763	2003-05-31 06:22:00	"Outlook Express" Email Privacy ( local server software) Sometimes "BlackBox"	Neutrino (3861)
146764	2003-06-02 09:30:00	Susan - with respect to the deletion of attachments, have you looked at the Tools, Options, Attachments "tab"? There are a couple of options there for deleting them.	Robin S_ (86)
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