free email software thats better than outlook?

I am looking for a free email program like outlook but that runs faster, blocks out more spam and is overall better. I use firefox and was going to try thunderbird but I guess I want some feedback on some other programs that might be better...

 

Gmail is the best.

 

does gmail allow me to have 3 email account from different providers?

 

What is best is what works well for you. I suggest that you try the various clients and see which one that might be. FWIW, ThunderBird is my preference.

 

Try out Mozilla Thunderbird. It's free and works very well in my experience.

 

Thunderbird.less trouble than outlook.

 

Are you talking about POP? If so, then yes, you can set up gmail to accept emails from other email providers like Hotmail and Yahoo and such.

 

Another vote for Thunderbird.

 

Windows Live Mail is fine so far.

 

I use Thunderbird and I have 4 accounts both POP and IMAP. The only thing OUTLOOK has on it is a calender, yes I know about sunbird.

 

i'll go for thunderbird.

 

I just installed thunderbird will try it for a while and if I like it ill keep it. As for gmail, I already have 5 email addresses I dont want to creat another one, lol...

 

Windows Live Beta is pretty good.

 

I also use windows live mail, I'm liking it so far.

 

Thunderbird has worked well enough for me...

 

I never tried Thunderbird.. maybe ill give it a try.

 

I use Thunderbird and Mail washer to filter out spam.

 

In addition to SunBird, there is also Lightning. Lightning uses SunBird as a code base, but integrates the calendar into Thunderbird. It's a Thunderbird extension, really.

Matt

 

Do Window Live or Thunderbird have any issues with Vista ?

 

echo the earlier posts about thunderbird

 

Pegasus Mail is a good POP3/IMAP email program. www.pmail.com it's free has very good filtering options, multiple accounts etc etc.. I'm not entirely sure how it runs on Vista as I haven't tried it since I upgraded due to ditching my domains and email server and just using webmail instead.

 

I'm a big Sylpheed fan

 

Thunderbird works.

I have two gmail accounts and three yahoo accounts on it.

In order to use a yahoo email account in Thunderbird (or outlook) you must use a small free program called YPops.

 

You used to also have the option to pay Yahoo for POP service.

 

No and no.

I know for sure Windows Mail works... I haven't experienced any problems with Thunderbird either.

 

i have to say, i'm MIGHTY impressed with the quality of Windows Live Mail on Vista. it's very well designed and just plain works well with a host of mail servers/addresses (configured up my gmail, ISP and hotmail settings automatically).

 

Is there any chance of Microsoft charging for Windows Live Mail after it goes out of beta?

Because that would suck.

 

not at all, it's a replacement for Windows Mail, which itself was a replacement for Outlook Express. in other words, it's free

 

Windows Live Mail is already out of beta.

 

The problem with it is that MS stripped out http mail support from it, making it less useful to me than the former Outlook Express.

 

Another vote for Thunderbird + Lightening. It is more stable than Outlook and it does everything that I want Outlook to do, except to synch with my PDA (but that will come in time I hope). But using the "Provider" extension on Lightening, you can have it synch with you Google calendar. It's great.

 

I use Gmail.com and access my email from Mozilla Thunderbird. Excellent combination. Also all your emails get backed up to your online space of almost 3 gigs now provided by Google. And gmail acts as a spam filter before it gets to your Thunderbird inbox.

 

A vote for Thunderbird.

 

Thunderbird FTW

 

Mozilla Thunderbird.