Alternative to Outlook Express

[KraKto$is8]

It's shit, I want a replacement. What would you recommend? Something that can deal with HTTP mail like Yahoo and Hotmail too plz.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Use webmail. I do.

ps.

Opera.

[Apothos]

Eudora?

[G_frog]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Sufficiently similar that you won't miss anything from Outlook, and it's easy to get used to; sufficiently different not to be a security risk; and an improvement on outlook express in many ways.

[queball]

Except none of those three fulfill his one requirement?

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by queball

Except none of those three fulfill his one requirement?

You're saying that a webbrowser can't use webmail now?

WOAH

[queball]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

You're saying that a webbrowser can't use webmail now?

WOAH

You didn't say "a webbrowser", you said webmail. And fine, but I was referring to the three mentioned above, not four.

edit: oh, misread, you mean Opera + webmail rather than M2 as an e-mail client. Still, name a webmail service that can access Yahoo/Hotmail HTTPmail. (I'd actually quite like one if anyone knows)

[Nodrog]

I dont think you can access your yahoo mail account from a POP client unless you pay extra.

edit: yeah its $20 a year.

[queball]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

I dont think you can access your yahoo mail account from a POP client unless you pay extra.

edit: yeah its $20 a year.

Right, so can anyone suggest an HTTPmail client that isn't OE?

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by queball

Right, so can anyone suggest an HTTPmail client that isn't OE?

I think that would be violating the terms of services of your yahoo account.

[queball]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

I think that would be violating the terms of services of your yahoo account.

I don't think their ToS says anything about it , but Yahoo don't provide it anyway, on a second look. :-/

[1-X]

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it's freeware and does POP3, hotmail, yahoo, etc...

(I don't actually use it, though I used to a couple of years ago, and can't remember why I stopped. Maybe it was because it looked crap, and was a bit simplistic)

EDIT I just downloaded it, set it up.... it still looks crap but it does the job

[G_frog]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

I dont think you can access your yahoo mail account from a POP client unless you pay extra.

I only have a free yahoo account. It turns out I can, and do, check it and other accounts every day with Thunderbird. Flavius, I don't know what you mean about it being slow, it loads and connects as fast as Outlook Express once you have told it to do so automagically.

And can't you people use the internet?

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Flavius

You see, some people still have archaic computers. As such, Thunderbird runs awfully slow on my PIII 733mhz. This might also because I have over 1000 emails on it.

You're complaining like someone I'm aware of who was annoyed that their hard drive was full. Of course, they refused to fit another, and it turned out that there was 30 gigs of bitmaps, but what the hey.

[queball]

Originally Posted by G_frog

I only have a free yahoo account. It turns out I can, and do, check it and other accounts every day with Thunderbird. Flavius, I don't know what you mean about it being slow, it loads and connects as fast as Outlook Express once you have told it to do so automagically.

And can't you people use the internet?

That's cool, but how do you use your Yahoo account? That only says Hotmail.

[queball]

Originally Posted by 1-X

ePrompter

it's freeware and does POP3, hotmail, yahoo, etc...

(I don't actually use it, though I used to a couple of years ago, and can't remember why I stopped. Maybe it was because it looked crap, and was a bit simplistic)

EDIT I just downloaded it, set it up.... it still looks crap but it does the job

Ooh, excellent.

[G_frog]

Originally Posted by queball

That's cool, but how do you use your Yahoo account? That only says Hotmail.

pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk