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| Thread ID: 81388 | 2007-07-26 01:44:00 | Outlook or Incredimail ... or? | minster (9180) | Press F1 |
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| 572853 | 2007-07-26 01:44:00 | I have been using Incredimail for quite some time and enjoy the notifications that pop up when new mail arrives. What other Pop3 capable free email programs do most people use and what are their capabilities? Have thought of just using Outlook Express but worry about spam/virus's and would also prefer a mail system that tells me when I have new mail in my xtra or hotmail inbox. There are so many to choose from now that I would prefer to enquire here before proceeding Thanks for any advise:) |
minster (9180) | ||
| 572854 | 2007-07-26 01:48:00 | Mozilla Thunderbird (en.www.mozilla.com) is excellent. I strongly recommend you get rid of incredimail. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 572855 | 2007-07-26 01:57:00 | Poptray (http://www.poptray.org/) Is pretty good, its free, lets u add emails to a white/blacklist. If an email addy is in the blacklist it'll delete it. Can check email every 5 - whatever mins. You can change it to whatever. If u get emails, it flashes the amount on the icon in the taskbar. Dont think it'll deal with Hotmail tho. Altho if the hotmail account is old, you could add it in OE. And it'll most probably work then. It should work with Gmail as well, once u forward Gmail emails to your pop account. There's PEN (www.pennock.nl) but its not free. But will let u add Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and normal email to it. (and a few others). I dont think its as good as Poptray tho for picking up spam email addies, or deleting spam. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 572856 | 2007-07-26 02:33:00 | Id recommend Thunderbird too - Incredimail does slow your PC down something chronic, and everyone you send an email to gets an annoying pop-up thing down the bottom of the page telling them to get free emoticons with Incredimail or something. If you want new mail notification without your email client running get a free program like POP Peeker (www.freedownloadscenter.com). That and Outlook Express tend to work pretty well together, and completley adware free. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 572857 | 2007-07-26 02:49:00 | Outlook, Incredimail............ewwwww. Eudora or Pegasus :) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 572858 | 2007-07-26 02:53:00 | I have been using Incredimail This was off another forum: I'm sure your recipients really appreciate getting that 2-line message that Incredimail bloats into 2 to 4 MB of garbage with stationery, moving gifs, pop up smiley faces, crap music, and a ton of other worthless fluff to mask just those 2 lines . To buy Incredimail and NOT see their banner ads and to avoid spam, you get the privilege of having to pay $90 for the first subscription and then $40 each year thereafter plus $25 a year to be a Gold Member which gives you more backgrounds and other graphics to further irritate your recipients . Pity I didn't say it first . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 572859 | 2007-07-26 03:10:00 | I have been using Incredimail for quite some time and enjoy the notifications that pop up when new mail arrives . What other Pop3 capable free email programs do most people use and what are their capabilities? Have thought of just using Outlook Express but worry about spam/virus's and would also prefer a mail system that tells me when I have new mail in my xtra or hotmail inbox . I have been using Eudora for a few years, it's an excellent email client with a lot of neat features . It will not handle Hotmail but has no problems with Gmail . Because it is not made by Microsoft it is much less a target for viruses and worms that target your address book . Eudora will notify you of new mail if it is running at the time (you can minimise it to the TaskTray) but I prefer to use it in conjunction with PopTray mentioned by Speedy for spam filtering . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 572860 | 2007-07-26 06:26:00 | Thanks guys for all the options and the links:) Will have a good look at them all. Must say that as I've been using Incredimail for 5 years with absolutely no problems, it's surprising how many don't like it:confused: |
minster (9180) | ||
| 572861 | 2007-07-26 08:40:00 | I hated it When my friend used it.It took me like 5-10 minutes to load the email cos it was full of smileys,animated smiley,heading which were animated and the background had borders and a theme Ah god,I would like to Kill incredimail! |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 572862 | 2007-07-26 08:42:00 | I used netscape at first then chose Mozilla Thunderbird. I've been using opera for the past 3 years now |
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