Outlook vs Thunderbird for home use?

Discussion in 'Application Software' started by Deleted member 222776, Sep 2, 2017.

    Hello. What would you recommend as a email client for home and personal use? I'll be using it with Yahoo and Google mail, of which I have multiple accounts.From a security point of view, what would you recommend and why?

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  1. OldMX

    OldMX MDL Addicted

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    Been using thunderbird for years, actually just installed a very early version and just kept updating till today, very easy to backup.
     
  2. jerzy601

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    Some time ago I used Thunderbird but due to frequent crashes I moved to Mailbird and am very satisfied with it
    I also recommend Mildbird is a simple to use interface and faster than Thunderbird.
     
  3. adric

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    Thunderbird all the way. Been using it since 2004. I don't recall it ever crashing. I just hope they don't kill it someday. From a security point of view, use stamps and send your correspondence thru the postal service. :D. Common sense works too.
     
  4. Kim100

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    Mailbird only supports one account unless you pay for the full version, Thunderbird wins hands down.
     
  5. Michaela Joy

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    Yeah I'm a thunderbird user. It works well. It supports multiple accounts and is free. :)
     
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    Sylpheed - best ever made lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client
    h***s://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
     
  7. jerzy601

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    #9 jerzy601, Sep 9, 2017
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    So I use the release version some time ago I uploaded the free version, but anyway I would not switch to Thunderbird.





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  8. Tiger-1

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    well I'm using Gmail for a while who know I can switch to Thunderbird too :g:
     
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  9. arisma

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    Either of them
     
  10. vze2mp9g

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    That's the way to live! Go for both of them. The only issue I had was that I liked both because on client had a feater that the other didn't, and vice versa. They should combine both and they would have an Ultimate email client.
     
  11. kaljukass

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    I don't understand how you can compare an email service platform with a cross-platform applications for managing emails coming from different email platforms or servers, news feeds, chat, and news groups. Local application/program that, apart from managing, has nothing to do with the email service, its capabilities or anything at all.
    There is no way to compare these things. Any email server, platform etc cannot be compared tolocal email manager any way.
    Unfortunately, of course, some companies have used the same name for both the email server and the local email manager, and this probably causes a lot of confusion, because many people really don't understand the things are complitely different when they have the same name. For example, Microsoft email server is outlook.com and Microsoft email manager (program) is called outlook. At the same time, the Microsoft outlook program does nothing other than managing e-mails, regardless of their original server origin.
    So, what do I want to say? The e-mail manager cannot be compared to an e-mail server and e-mail service, but here under this topic everything is mixed up like mush and cabbage.
     
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  12. Hal2000

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    Using Thunderbird successfully for many years, I don't have a " brain the size of a planet" like kaljukass but I have addressed the topic.
     
  13. Flipp3r

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