Email and News Clients

Dear All

I know this question has been asked before, about news and email readers
(and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I have
always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product is not
longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know there are
new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however this product is
not yet even at initial release. I also know that its based on Mozilla
1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as it did not
look complete.

I already have pop3 spam email filtering working via another products,
which acts as a proxy between Netscape and the pop server. How ever
there seems to be an ever increasing amount of spam/nuisance posts
appearing on the newsgroups, and I want to be able to filter this out as
well (not just using the senders name) some sort of proxy s/w would be
ideal. Does this s/w exist?

My existing needs are for email both plain text and html. I’m not
particularly interested in newsreader functionality such as binary group
mass down load functions. The primary use for this is general email and
text newsgroups.

What clients do people use, which support both email and news?

How many people still use Netscape?

Is any one using Mozilla, and if s, is the product stable and functional
enough to use?

Many Thanks

Andrew

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Andrew Welham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email readers
> (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I have
<snip>
> Is any one using Mozilla, and if s, is the product stable and functional
> enough to use?

Works fine for me.
Using it on linux for some time now.
It just basically works, though I admit I haven't been using the news
client much, and only started using the mail recently.
Junk mail filtering is in 1.6 alpha, (unsure about 1.5), and seems to work
quite well once you've trained it a bit.

I use Mozilla Firebird as a browser and Thunderbird for email/news...I
am very happy with both. I also use Pan as a newsreader but I don't see
a lot of difference between that and Thunderbird.

Andrew Welham wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email readers
> (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I have
> always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product is not
> longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know there are
> new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however this product is
> not yet even at initial release. I also know that its based on Mozilla
> 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as it did not
> look complete.

Ditto, they both work just fine. But I also use Opera for browsing.

eusty
UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net

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michael(nooospam).collins wrote:
> I use Mozilla Firebird as a browser and Thunderbird for email/news...I
> am very happy with both. I also use Pan as a newsreader but I don't see
> a lot of difference between that and Thunderbird.
>
> Andrew Welham wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email
>> readers (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I
>> have always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product
>> is not longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know
>> there are new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however
>> this product is not yet even at initial release. I also know that its
>> based on Mozilla 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress
>> me, as it did not look complete.

In message <3ff7f146$0$2759$(E-Mail Removed)>, Andrew Welham
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>What clients do people use, which support both email and news?

I'm very happy with Turnpike, note it is only free for Demon-connected
users, GBP15+VAT for use with other ISPs.

<http://www.demon.net/products/turnpike/>

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put 'spam' or 'delete' somewhere in the Reply-to: header.
Help yourself avoid the spam: <http://keir.net/k9.html>

In news:3ff7f146$0$2759$(E-Mail Removed),
Andrew Welham <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Dear All
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email
> readers (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I
> have always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product
> is not longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know
> there are new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however
> this product is not yet even at initial release. I also know that its
> based on Mozilla
> 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as it did
> not look complete.
>
> I already have pop3 spam email filtering working via another products,
> which acts as a proxy between Netscape and the pop server. How ever
> there seems to be an ever increasing amount of spam/nuisance posts
> appearing on the newsgroups, and I want to be able to filter this out
> as well (not just using the senders name) some sort of proxy s/w
> would be ideal. Does this s/w exist?
>
> My existing needs are for email both plain text and html. I’m not
> particularly interested in newsreader functionality such as binary
> group mass down load functions. The primary use for this is general
> email and text newsgroups.
>
> What clients do people use, which support both email and news?
>
> How many people still use Netscape?
>
> Is any one using Mozilla, and if s, is the product stable and
> functional enough to use?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Andrew


Dialog excellent for email and as newsreader.

http://www.40tude.com/dialog/

Also Agent (www.forteinc.com, IIRC) - excellent for email and usenet.


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In article <3ff7f146$0$2759$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) (Andrew Welham) wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email
> readers (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I
> have always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product
> is not longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know
> there are new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however this
> product is not yet even at initial release. I also know that its based
> on Mozilla 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as
> it did not look complete.
>
> I already have pop3 spam email filtering working via another products,
> which acts as a proxy between Netscape and the pop server. How ever
> there seems to be an ever increasing amount of spam/nuisance posts
> appearing on the newsgroups, and I want to be able to filter this out
> as well (not just using the senders name) some sort of proxy s/w would
> be ideal. Does this s/w exist?
>
> My existing needs are for email both plain text and html. I’m not
> particularly interested in newsreader functionality such as binary
> group mass down load functions. The primary use for this is general
> email and text newsgroups.
>
> What clients do people use, which support both email and news?
>
> How many people still use Netscape?
>
> Is any one using Mozilla, and if s, is the product stable and
> functional enough to use?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
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>
>
I personally prefer Ameol

www.ameol.com

- Steve

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 10:55:12 +0000, Andrew Welham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email readers
> (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I have
> always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product is not
> longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know there are
> new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however this product is
> not yet even at initial release. I also know that its based on Mozilla
> 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as it did not
> look complete.
>
> I already have pop3 spam email filtering working via another products,
> which acts as a proxy between Netscape and the pop server. How ever
> there seems to be an ever increasing amount of spam/nuisance posts
> appearing on the newsgroups, and I want to be able to filter this out as
> well (not just using the senders name) some sort of proxy s/w would be
> ideal. Does this s/w exist?
>
> My existing needs are for email both plain text and html. I’m not
> particularly interested in newsreader functionality such as binary group
> mass down load functions. The primary use for this is general email and
> text newsgroups.
>
> What clients do people use, which support both email and news?

I personally use:

Mozilla 1.4.1 - web browser
Mutt 1.4i - mail client
slrn 0.9.7.4 - news client

That said, all of the above are running on a Linux machine (although
there are ways to install both Mutt and slrn on a Windows machine,
neither product is initially very user friendly and there is a certain
learning curve which has to be negotiated before one becomes familiar
with their use).

For a Windows user, I would recommend:

Mozilla 1.4.1 - web browser (or IE of course)
Forte Agent 1.9.3 - mail (non-HTML) and news
Pegasus Mail v4.1 - mail (plain text & HTML)

http://www.forteinc.com
http://www.pmail.com/v4_release.htm
http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_winpmail.htm

--
Anthony Edwards
easynet Ltd - Manchester
http://www.uk.easynet.net
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Andrew Welham wrote:

> Dear All
>
> I know this question has been asked before, about news and email readers
> (and yes I have read a lot of he articles in the archives). I have
> always used Netscape right from the early days. Now this product is not
> longer being developed; I fell it is time to move on. I know there are
> new products from Mozilla (thunderbird V0.4 etc) however this product is
> not yet even at initial release. I also know that its based on Mozilla
> 1.5, but the download of that product did not impress me, as it did not
> look complete.
>
> I already have pop3 spam email filtering working via another products,
> which acts as a proxy between Netscape and the pop server. How ever
> there seems to be an ever increasing amount of spam/nuisance posts
> appearing on the newsgroups, and I want to be able to filter this out as
> well (not just using the senders name) some sort of proxy s/w would be
> ideal. Does this s/w exist?
>
> My existing needs are for email both plain text and html. I’m not
> particularly interested in newsreader functionality such as binary group
> mass down load functions. The primary use for this is general email and
> text newsgroups.
>
> What clients do people use, which support both email and news?
>
> How many people still use Netscape?
>
> Is any one using Mozilla, and if s, is the product stable and functional
> enough to use?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Andrew
>

I use Thunderbird all the time, and it's extremly stable for me. I
would give it a go. As for spam filtering, I disable the built in
thunderbird one, and use POPFile instead, as it's much more accurate...