Email Client Recommendations

[MonzaMike]

Just bought a new Laptop which has Office 2010.

As Office no longer includes Outlook what email client do people use?

My ISP (Virgin) has a web interface, but I don't like it.

I do have Office 2003, so can get Outlook from there.

Any recommendations?

[RichardCranium]

I switched (from Turnpike) to ThunderBird as an experiment a couple or 3 years ago and haven't seen any reason to switch to anything else.

How important is the Outlook scheduling functionality to you? (I don't use it, I use Lotus Organizer for that.) If you want tight meeting invitation tracking AND scheduling combined, I don't think ThunderBird is the right solution for you.

[CheeseSlice]

Bad luck.. I use Outlook 2010 which came with Office 2010

My LTD subscribes to the Microsoft Action pack, so (I think) I have Office 2010 pro which includes Outlook.

[d000hg]

They really took Outlook out? Seems a weird choice. Do you still get Express?

Personally I think the gmail web-client is really very solid these days. I've not seen a desktop mail client that was any good if you're used to Outlook.

[lilelvis2000]

I use both Thunderbird and Outlook and its pretty equal. I have heard good things about evolution but haven't tried it myself. thunderbird has an add-on called Lightening as a calendar - but it doesn't seem to accept iCal files directly. Which is a problem if you are receiving invites.
Give Evolution a try.

[tenpin]

Not tried it in the last couple of years, but there is also Zimbra Desktop which hooks onto exchange etc.

[VectraMan]

I use Thunderbird. I wouldn't say that I like it, but I haven't found anything that's less bad.

The GMail web client does seem pretty good. I like the idea of having offline copies though.

[Sysman]

They really took Outlook out? Seems a weird choice. Do you still get Express?

I think that MS want you to use Windows Live Essentials.

No thanks.

Personally I think the gmail web-client is really very solid these days. I've not seen a desktop mail client that was any good if you're used to Outlook.

The good Windows ones I found a decade or more ago seem to have gone the way of the dodo.

[Fred Bloggs]

Yes, Thunderbird with the calendar add on works fine for me, but I do not know how it behaves when handling meeting invites and stuff from Outlook.

[Durbs]

The sad fact is that all mail clients feel like 2nd best if you have used Outlook.

I use Thunderbird on Mac, its 'ok' and Windows Mail (that you'll get from Essentials) on Win 7/Vista, again, its 'ok', but not as good as Outlook Express that it replaced.