Thunderbird
 

A friend just got a new PC with windows 7, and the email setup is driving her nuts. She does a lot of coordinating with community groups and crafts groups, so lots of emailing lists and stuff to save in separate folders.
She'd rather have this stuff on her PC, rather than out there somewhere like Gmail. Has anybody had success with Mozilla Thunderbird?

I used to use Thunderbird. Worked pretty well.

Then I got the Gmails. No reason I couldn't use Thunderturd with Gmail, but I don't. Seems like a regression to me.

I used thunderbird exclusively at my last job. It was excellent.

Cool, thank you.

Thunderbird Light Dammit!

We use Thundebird at home. It just works. We don't have any complicated address lists though.

Loved Thunderbird when I was using the cable company's email, downside is if you're indifferent about backups, you lose everything in a system crash. Of course, most email isn't that critical ...

Way better than the MS piece of crap email thingy.

Thunderbird is really good. We run an Exchange shop at work, but I do a lot of testing of our SMTP servers using it on our network. It is very configurable, and does very well for mail encryption testing.

Plus, it keeps your private email off of Google.

If you like privacy, and don't mind taking your own backups, get it.

Excellent. I know what you mean about keeping private mail off Gmail. Get an email about someone having a baby and suddenly baby food spam arrives. :rolleyes:
Thanks everyone.

Thunderbird is great. Your friend just need the right email server settings / email port numbers in order to set it up properly. Although the new version of Thunderbird recognizes these information when you input your email account, it is very beneficial to have them handy. In terms of Gmail, you need to configure the email account first. Enable its iMap / Pop3 capabilities before you can set it up in your Thunderbird email client. :)