Alternative email client packages?

[Ben Zwycky]

My old computer is creaking at the seams, and I've recently replaced it with a notebook, so now comes the fun part of setting everything up again. My old computer used thunderbird to manage multiple different email accounts (one for family, two for work, one for my pen name etc), each with multiple message folders and filters. Thunderbind used to freeze up every so often, though that might be more of a hardware problem, and I'd prefer to move away from mozilla if possible, so does anyone know of any alternatives to thunderbird that could do the above, ideally that also could simply import the folders and as many of the settings as possible? If so, what experience do you have with those alternatives?

[Cow Poke]

I used to use The Bat.

Haven't used it in the last couple years, because I'm on Exchange and use Outlook on all my accounts, but when I was managing a bunch of individual pop or imap accounts, The Bat worked GREAT!

[Ben Zwycky]

That's kinda expensive. Any others?

[Cow Poke]

They're charging for that now?

Sorry.....

Somebody on Wiki has made a list here.


And here's a list of freeware ones -- I actually used Pegasus back in the early days!

[Ben Zwycky]

Thanks. My wife found someone auctioning off an unused copy of office 2007 for very little, so I may end up with Outlook after all.