Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mozilla.org makes good free emal and browser software thoug its a bit tough to get all new flash plugins on screen movie stuf working - but that is the cost of safety and much perferable to microsofts 1000 open backdoors theory Brian Reid wrote: > > >> How many problems will people suffer by way of Outlook... before >> dropping it for good? > > > Exactly. Outlook is a truly terrible email program, but people use it > anyhow, probably because it's free or because they aren't interested > in learning anything new. And then, through some sicko variation of > the Stockholm Syndrome, they decide that they like it. > > Outlook's evil habit of marking messages "From X on behalf of Y" has > probably done more to degrade the quality of communication in the > internet than anything else in he last 25 years. > > There are dozens of good email programs and a few really great ones. > Outlook is neither, nor is Outlook Express. > > I use Mulberry. My non-tech family members use Eudora. I've used Mutt, > Pegasus, the Mac's Mail.app, The Bat, Poco, TransSoft, Calypso, and > Netscape Mail. All of them are, in my opinion, better than Outlook or > Outlook Express. > > If you are serious about trying a non-Microsoft email program, I have > two recommendations for you. If on-screen beauty is not important to > you, then try "The Bat" ( http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ ) > > If on-screen beauty matters to you, then Eudora is the best by far. > It's more expensive than The Bat, but it's the reference standard for > commercial email software. ( http://www.eudora.com/ ) > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html