Poll: What's the best E-Mail client?

[fryke]

Let's poll this out.

[themacko]

aren't the Netscape and Mozilla email clients like the same thing?

[Leonis]

Mail is what I am using

Simple, don't have to f*ck around just to know how to use it

[fryke]

Netscape and Mozilla might be the same thing, but its users may have different philosophies and be angry about not counting them separately. Just count them together if you want.

[alexrd]

ya know, I've been through every graphical mail client on this poll as well as a few others, and I keep coming back to pine over ssh.

Am I the only one??

-alex.

[vitaboy]

I wanna use Apple mail but I can't - it has seemingly no support for international character sets like Korean or Japanese. Even on OS 10.1.3 with all the language sets installed.

But then again, multiple language input has always been inconsistent on the Mac. Unfortunately, this is a case where Windows 2000 is far ahead. For example, I can neither receive nor send in Asian characters in MSN Messenger. You can't change encodings when reading email in Apple Mail. Yet the crippled OS X version of ICQ can do foreign characters, although it's still not as well supported as in the Windows side. The other day, a friend sent me some Korean pop MP3s via Mac ICQ and the file name came up all gibberish. She ICQ'd them to me on the W2K machine, and the characters showed up all fine! Yet if I insert a Utada Hikaru CD, iTunes rips them and correctly displays the Japanese song titles and other tags! It's very frustrating how unevenly multiple language support is implemented.

[voice-]

Sadly, MS wins this one with me. Eudora may be OK, but I've had too many crashes.

[fryke]

Originally posted by alexrd
Am I the only one??

Nope, I tend to use pine myself when I'm on my Nokia Communicator. And sometimes when I'm on slow connections, I'm surfing via SSH only, anyway... But I guess the poll has its rights like this, too.