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Question

Any good free desktop email software out there?

Mar 23, 2016 12:46PM PDT

I searched on download.com and got 96 responses--only 3 of which related to email software. I'm looking for a desktop software package, not a provider, and not web-based. I have been using Thunderbird for several years and was very happy with it until the last few months. Mozilla has stopped supporting it and it started going downhill before they made the announcement.

Anyone know any good free desktop email software?

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That's news to me.
Mar 23, 2016 12:50PM PDT

I recall they stopped work on it since it's done. Can you reveal what you mean by not supporting it?

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Thunderbird Support
Apr 5, 2016 1:42PM PDT

You're right: I did some checking and they have stopped developing it. They are also looking at perhaps selling it off; maybe that's what made me think they were not going to support it.

But I have been having so many problems with it, I still want to look at other options if you know of any.
Thanks.

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If you can
Apr 5, 2016 2:05PM PDT

Tell me what problems you are having. The only troubles I'm still running into is setup with various ISPs.

That is, email is a really ancient dusty old system that well, did I write it's old? Many today are taken aback at what we have to do to configure email clients. Protocols, ports, and then what happens if an antivirus steps in between.

Here, it's fine. Could you share an issue?

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so many
Apr 5, 2016 2:18PM PDT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients

SeaMonkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey
still developed, closest to Thunderbird, can use it's old mail folders too.
Compared to Firefox, the SeaMonkey web browser keeps the far more traditional-looking interface of Netscape and the Mozilla Suite. Many Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons can be converted to make them compatible with SeaMonkey if they aren't already. Mail
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups 2.16

SeaMonkey Mail is a traditional e-mail client that includes support for multiple accounts, junk mail detection, message filters, HTML message support, and address books, among other features.[10] It shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird; both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are built from Mozilla's comm-central source tree.
It also comes with an HTML editor program and a browser.

Recent release of version 43 this past month.
43.0 2.40 March 14, 2016 Official Version 2.40 release.

Pegagus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail

Kontact aka KMail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontact#E-Mail

Stable release 4.14.3 (November 11, 2014
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Mailbird
May 19, 2016 2:42AM PDT

If you're looking for freeware e-mail software then Mailbird is a pretty good option.

Link to Polish download site removed by moderator. Google easily finds their own site to download from.

Post was last edited on May 19, 2016 2:54 AM PDT

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Incredimail is free desktop email software
May 20, 2016 2:57AM PDT

Incredimail is an email client currently in version 2.0 that supports both IMAP, POP3 and Webmail accounts. The basic version is free to download and use, however additional features like animations, themes and junk filters require you to upgrade to the premium service so that is something to watch out for.

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Re: incredimail
May 20, 2016 3:05AM PDT

In the past, we had lots of posts with complaints about incredimail. I don't know if the cause if the recent decrease of such posts is that it's become much better or that nobody uses it anymore.

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Same experience here.
May 20, 2016 8:08AM PDT

Incredimail was a big source of tech calls. It never seemed to work right for everyone I encountered to the point that my advice was to forget it existed. It was that bad or the support was that bad.

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FossaMail
May 23, 2016 11:06AM PDT

Try FossaMail - very close to Thunderbird, less buggy and still in development.

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Not my experience.
May 23, 2016 11:34AM PDT

Thunderbird is not in development because it's done. What bugs are you reporting here?

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Sendblast
Jun 4, 2016 5:43AM PDT

HI!
Have I would recommend you give SendBlast a try. I am using it and I must say its a very nice email software.