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    Best e-mail client for Mac OS X

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by r6mile, Jun 28, 2008.

  1. r6mile

    r6mile Notebook Enthusiast

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    Simple question. Which e-mail client is better?
     
    r6mile, Jun 28, 2008
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I would say Apple Mail in Leopard does the job fine. If you'd prefer not, you can try Entourage from Microsoft Office (if you have/get that) or Mozilla Thunderbird :).
     
    Sam, Jun 28, 2008
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  3. maxsquared

    maxsquared Notebook Consultant

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    I think Apple Mail is the most easy to use and user friend one.

    Entourage has the best intergration of calendar and contact along with MS Office, it's the best for if you use exchange email.

    And Thunderbird, is for techie people used to hack around, and will mozilla extensions.
     
    maxsquared, Jun 28, 2008
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  4. alphanash

    alphanash Notebook Guru

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    Personally, I prefer Thunderbird. It works beautifully well with IMAP Gmail. But I have to admit that I'm more iased because I used it and Outlook a lot before I had a Mac, so I'm naturally more used to it. I fins Apple mail is nice, but just too simple and slow with IMAP syncronising
     
    alphanash, Jun 28, 2008
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    fsucesar Notebook Consultant

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    I think apple mail is perfect...after setting it up as an imap instead of pop...everything has been smooth...
     
    fsucesar, Jun 28, 2008
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  6. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    i personally like to keep my mail online so i don't have to worry about backing it up...

    google mail. you can set it up with your current address and still send / receive mail from there.
     
    masterchef341, Jun 28, 2008
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  7. fan of laptop

    fan of laptop Notebook Evangelist

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    I used to use apple mail to send out my email but it did not do the spam job well. It categorized my normal email as spam
     
    fan of laptop, Jun 28, 2008
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  8. diggy

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    I only give my vote to MS Entourage because its what I use currently and have the most experience with. I have tried Apple Mail as well as Thunderbird, but I didnt use either long enough to form an opinion either way
     
    diggy, Jun 29, 2008
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    Apple Mail is very well built, for general purpose email management. I've tried Entourage, but always ended up using Apple Mail for its simplicity and quickness in downloading new mail.
     
    dbam987, Jun 29, 2008
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  10. thepreacha619

    thepreacha619 Notebook Evangelist

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    so does entourage replace ical and your address book as well?
     
    thepreacha619, Jun 29, 2008
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  11. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    GMail web interface with Google Notifier + Growl. It is simple, clean, fast, and available anywhere. However, it is not quite on par with desktop clients for folders and rules.

    I have tried both Thunderbird and Mail.app. Mail.app is horrible with handling IMAP in my opinion. It is slow and inaccurate. I wish it handled IMAP as well as POP because it would be my preferred mail client.

    Thunderbird is excellent for IMAP, but I cannot go with a program that is no longer going to be actively developed according to Mozilla. I think Thunderbird is near the end.

    Never used Entoutrage so I can't comment on that.
     
    cashmonee, Jun 30, 2008
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  12. DamienThorn

    DamienThorn Notebook Consultant

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    I've used Entourage, and the core deficiency with it is that it doesn't sync with my BB in a reasonably fashion - I don't want to use hacks to get it working. The default Apple apps, while in some cases problematic, are good enough for my daily use. While Mail won't win awards for much (other, perhaps, than ease of use) it's good enough for most of my daily needs.
     
    DamienThorn, Jun 30, 2008
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