Email must be one of the most used application on any business computer today. And what better way to start introducing free software than with email program.
For years I resisted Outlook, choosing to stand by Pegasus Mail. Pegasus is showing sign of age. The development is slow and for a long time it was not able to handle Chinese.
I moved to Thunderbird when 0.8 came out. It was able to handle Chinese in UTF8 which was what I needed badly.
It wasn’t easy for me as well. Pegasus had been my email companion for almost 9 years before the switch. There are so many automated filters, identities, and preference that just works. If it’s not broken why fix it?
Thunderbird is useful if you download email to you local PC or notebook and read the email offline.
Thunderbird did not last long. Mail started to appear in my GMail folder in October 2005. After trying out briefly, all my incoming email are now handled by GMail.
GMail is great if you are constantly online. It takes care of spams at the server end which mean you do not need to download all the spam before you can filter it.
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