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Author Topic: Email software Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-10-2004 09:25 AM                    I've prided myself on using old versions (pre-bloatware/spyware/adware) of Eudora for email and thus avoiding the evil that is Outlook, worms, etc. Now I've run into a situation where one of my DSL accounts requires SMTP authentication which Eudora 3.0.6 doesn't do. So I'm looking for recommendations for a nice simple freeware POP/SMTP email client for Winblows 98. Authentication needed but otherwise the fewer features the better. By way of comparison in my Unix days I didn't even bother with Pine but used Elm. HTML in email is evil.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2004 11:27 AM                     PM Mail is a good POP mail client  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-10-2004 12:37 PM                        You could write, or have someone write, a proxy wrapper that does auth for you and continue to use Eudora.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 08-10-2004 12:40 PM                        quote: Steve Kraus I've prided myself on using old versions (pre-bloatware/spyware/adware) of Eudora for email The new "free" (pre-bloatware/spyware/adware) version of Eudora should work fine for you, Steve. I've got 5.2 here (paid! )  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 08-10-2004 01:26 PM                        quote: Steve Kraus By way of comparison in my Unix days I didn't even bother with Pine but used Elm. In similar way that Pine is not Elm, Mulberry is Not Free, but it doesnt cost much, ($39.95), and does work really well. It does display HTML mail quite happily (as well as straight ASCII), but without "assistance" from Microsoft components, and thus you machine doesnt become a trojan repository or spam amplifier. This is the email tool I choose to use. (Update: And I forgot to say it definitely does support SMTP authentication, and the SMTP settings are independent of the POP settings, so you can use a different server (ip address and/or port), userid and password and encryption methods for the SMTP and POP3 (or better still IMAP) sides.) Of course, if it has to be free, then Pegasus mail would surely be the answer. (but I dont know how flexible its server settings are, as its a while since I looked at this product) Mulberry Pegasus Mail [ 08-10-2004, 03:49 PM: Message edited by: David Buckley ]  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-10-2004 01:45 PM                    Just for curiousity sake I tried the current Eudora (6.1.2) and unless I'm missing something it doesn't even do authentication in a way I could use. There's no place to enter a SMTP login so I presume it uses what you put down for POP. If that's the case then it's worthless to me since I don't get mail from the ISP that I have the workplace DSL with. [ 08-10-2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: Steve Kraus ]  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-10-2004 06:06 PM                     I use Pegasus and it does everything you need. It can be very flexible. You can setup SMTP authentication, rules for filtering, turn on or off imaging and HTML and the biggest thing about it is that it is FREE. Oh yeah! It can be found here... http://www.pmail.com/  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-10-2004 10:37 PM                     I proof my personal SBC/Yahoo! DSL account e-mail via their web page. Check the headers and then delete anything I don't want. Same goes for our company e-mail. After I've proofed it, then I'll download the messages I want to keep into an e-mail client like Outlook Express or Mozilla. The process sounds labor intensive, but it goes pretty quick due to the web servers having their own spam filters.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-10-2004 11:43 PM                    I get very little spam at my private email address though there have been a few more lately. It's not unusual to go weeks without any. I use different addresses for anything I sign up for and newsgroup postings (even with a "spamblock" in the address field).  |  IP: Logged

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