Great. New machine, twidding with settings, managed to trash my Outlook Express mail again.
(Mutters ominously.)
Nice to see that McAfee has fixed the frickin problem. Not.
Good to know that the backup I made on the 20th is still good. Shame about the mail I received since then.
Which seems like an opportunity to open to the floor the general question, “What would you suggest as an alternative e-mail tool to Microsoft’s free, fairly functional, but subject to more bugs than a corpse in the the basement and more viruses than the Hot Zone POP client, Outlook Express?” ‘Cause, damn, this sort of thing’s annoying.
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MacAfee breaks more than it fixes, in my opinion…..of course I don’t know a thing about the alternatives…
Alas, since it’s the Corporate Standard, and I am not only using a Corporate Machine, but am the frickin’ Librarian of Corporate Standards, I’m SOL on not using McAfee.
Eudora is my mail client of choice, on Macs and PCs.
Can you leave the mail on your mailserver for a day or so? I have all our computers do that at work, so that they can be restored from the previous day’s backup, and then grab the day’s mail off the server again. Just a thought.
I don’t know about the viruses and whatnot. I’ve been using Express since… something like IE 2.0 and I’ve never picked up an email-born virus.
Or had it crash. And I used McAfee (at least part of that time). I must just be lucky: Outlook and Lotus Notes are both rancid pieces of meat compared to the thing that Microsoft gives away for free.
As far as that goes, I like Eudora well enough, but I’ve never found a program I like as well as Express.
I’m with Julia — Eudora is amazing. I’ve absolutely no complaints about it at all.
I’ve been using Eudora‘s ad-supported version for about three years now. I’m going to register the program and keep it. It is immune to Outlook’s principal weakness, the exploitation of it’s attachment mechanism.
I have an extensive set of filters that put my inbound mail into folders. I also use the address book extensively. It’s a pretty good piece of software. My only reservation is that it wants to be run by accounts that have administrator priviledges. If that’s not a major fault for you, then give it a try.
I seem to be the lone user of Forte Agent. It’s great for me, because the news reader is ideal. If you don’t hit the newsgroups for downloads with any regularity, you probably won’t find it as useful. still, there is a free version (Free Agent) if you want to give it a look-see.
Hmmm. Thanks for the advice, all. We’ll see (the long weekend having dulled my irritation at OE).
I would be your token Pegasus user.
(Yes, I’m the person who avoids Microsoft as much as possible because 1) I hate the company’s attitude and 2) hackers constantly target Microsoft products. The latest denial of service attack shows how vulnerably anyone running Microsoft is if they don’t keep their patches up.
I don’t use many of the Pegasus bells and whistles but my daughter does and is thrilled by its flexibility and filtering abilities.
Long-time Eudora fan, I’m using Pegasus right now on my father’s machine so I don’t muck with his Eudora installations. I like Eudora a lot, but Pegasus is a bazillion times faster. I get probably over 250 messages a day on my mailing lists (used to be higher, but I dumped a lot of lists because of disparate levels of junk-vs-gems) and I’ve never had a burble with Pegasus whereas Eudora sometimes disliked me. On the other hand, if you’re ever liable to “oops,” Eudora’s much better for catching your mistakes. Overall, from what you’re saying, I’d recommend Eudora.