The Explorer: What's The Best E-mail Client?

1. I have been using Pegasus mail for two years now and find that it is an excellent program with excellent filtering, multiple user capabilities, and all the other features you would expect from a high quality e-mail program. It's free, and its features and download can be found at Pmail.com -- Ellie from Nova Scotia

2. I invite you to investigate a program called The Bat! at RIT Research Labs Download it (1.8 megs!) and give it a spin. I think it speaks for itself. I have used it for more than two years and think it tops them all -- if you are NOT creating HTML messages (I view them as a waste anyhow). -- Paul Van Noord

3. I would like to turn you on to the best app I have ever come across. Before I go on I have to say that it isn't free, but if you want the best you sometimes have to pay for it. Please give this application a look and find out just how bad OE and Outlook really are! The name of the program is Becky! Internet Mail v.2 and you can get a free 30-day trial at RimArts Software Labs. Not only is this a great client, but it also has a dedicated discussion forum with people that will bend over backwards to try and give you assistance with any problems you may have with setting it up. -- Michael A. Wood

4. If you want to see some new state of the art e-mail software, mainly for personal use, go and give IncrediMail a try at Incredimail.com. The nice touches it brings are kinda cool. I realize that "serious" e-mailers might not want all the bells and whistles but quite a few of my friends have tried it and love it. Give it a try you never know you might like it! -- Roger Montgomery

5. Leave room for the virtues and powers of Forté Agent. This is a very powerful app and is specially useful for NewsGroup usage. Admittedly it has no direct HTML display function (not in V5 variants anyways). But, it is easy to launch an HTML file from it into the browser -" so no great prob's there. Filters for 'kill' and watch' are good and if you can be bothered, you can configure for just about any condition. It has served well over about three years now and I have to say I have never felt like looking further afield for anything else. -- Chris Beglin

6. I used the pro version of Eudora for a while, but have gone over to Netscape Messenger. The main reason is that I found Eudora was chewing up large amounts (25 percent and more) of system resources. Also, I had to use my browser to display pictures, which meant two programs had to be running. -- Bruce Cropper

7. I would like to draw the readers attention to two things: 1. WinPMail mail client [this is an alternate name for "Pegasus," mentioned earlier] which is free to use and free of any ads. 2. The ability to enjoy the two worlds that Yahoo Mail makes possible. Having a free mailbox which make it easy to reach your mail from any connected computer AND, on the other hand, using your favourite mail client on your computer. Of course, I am using WinPMail. -- Dan Rubin

8. I can recommend a fantastic and little e-mail program, Poco mail. After I used it I never opened Outlook Express again. It's a shareware program and you can download it from Pocomail.com. -- Hossam Siefy

9. I'm a former Eudora user who has switched to Calypso E-Mail) in the past year. When I used Eudora for about three or four years, I kept finding minor glitches like pasting removed spaces between paragraphs. I'm now using Calypso and am extremely happy with it. In fact, just this month they released a minor update to fix importing Eudora files with HTML. -- Alan Schneider