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  1. Re:The cries of a dying business by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com)

    For Windows I recommend Becky. Don't let the website and its "Engrish" put you off, it's one hell of a client in a lean, lightweight install. Robust IMAP and POP support, plus seamless SSL/TLS on top of either protocol. The entire install is under 10MB. One of the best kept secrets of the internet if you ask me.

  2. Re:Where to start. by Metaphorically · · Score: 1, Insightful · on $298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware

    And my abacus only had nine beads...

    The software that we used in school isn't available any more. I can't get Becky any more (oops - looks like I can). Netscape 2.0 isn't going to cut it. Wordperfect 5 for DOS was great on memory use but I just can't use it any more.

    Students need hardware just like everyone else. A decent CPU, a couple gigs of RAM (if you want the computer to last until the end of the year), that's the foundation. This box has neither but does come with a resource-hungry OS.

  3. Becky by Donny+Smith · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Foundation Launches Mozilla Corporation

    Try Becky - excellent IMAP/POP/SMTP MUA (I assume you're a Windows user).
    It can copy sent mails to the Sent folder and has many other nice features.

    http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm

  4. Re:Will this help by baadger · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Foundation Launches Mozilla Corporation

    Try Becky - it's free, it's fast and there are quite a few plugins and themes out there if you look (just watch out for the japaneseness)

  5. Re:Worst. Submission. Ever. by baadger · · Score: 1 · on E-mail As the New Database
    But interestingly especially with IMAP storing your e-mails in folders and subfolders can be a pain. Atleast on the win32 platform, very few clients render IMAP folder trees correctly.

    My IMAP server structure has folders somewhat like this (folder.subfolder)

    INBOX (effectively root and no mail can be stored here to my knowledge)
    INBOX.Inbox
    INBOX.Sent Items
    INBOX.Archive (where I store old mail in subfolders)
    INBOX.Archive.Webcomics


    Now take Opera 8 (released just the other day). It renders this structure totally incorrectly. The folder 'tree' shows this all in the same level:

    INBOX
    Inbox
    Archive
    Archive.Webcomics


    Becky also suffers from this inability. Thunderbird my memory is a little fuzzy on (I don't like it) but last time I used it I don't think it displayed these folders correctly either.

    Magogany is the client I use currently and it renders the folder tree perfectly.

    Maybe I'm off base and we are supposed to be discussing POP3 only here but asking the every day joe to use a client to organize their mail when clients doesn't even show IMAP folders correctly is a joke. It's just frustrating.
  6. Re:Are any of you forgetting.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw
    the only usable damned email client under Windows
    If you haven't tried BeckyMail, you haven't lived.
  7. Re:The Bat! for POP3...Becky for IMAP (on Windows) by Wojina · · Score: 1 · on The Perfect Email Client?

    The Bat! has IMAP support, but it sucks. It sucks so bad, that if you're IMAP only, there is no way I could recommend this email client for you.

    However, if you use POP3 and Windows, I have yet to find a better email client than The Bat!. The threading support, quick templates, per-folder identity settings, per account filtering, etc. is top-notch.

    I had two complaints about The Bat!...IMAP support and newsgroup support. I've tried various newsreaders, but I didn't like any of them, and they seemed more difficult to use than The Bat! for filtering, etc. However, someone posted a link to MailTraq on one of The Bat! mailing lists, and with the free version of MailTraq, you can setup a news-to-mail/mail-to-news gateway that allows reading and responding to newsgroup postings in The Bat! I assume there are some alternatives to MailTraq on Linux, but it was easy to setup and as free as I needed it to be for my purposes.

    For IMAP, you might want to take a look at Becky

  8. Becky!, Pine, Mozilla by Khopesh · · Score: 4, Insightful · on The Perfect Email Client?

    A long while ago (pre-win2k), I used a little program called Becky! (official site here), a shareware Windows email client. It has the best interface I've seen yet. ...however, it doesn't get updates frequently and it's primary language is Japanese. Oh, and it's not free beer let alone free speech.

    I'm currently using Pine for receiving and Mozilla for sending. Once I get an IMAP server up on my linux box, I'll use Mozilla for mail at home and Pine for remote. Personally, I think this is the optimal solution; with your own personal IMAP server, you NEVER have to worry about switching email clients and converting everything. ...and you can't beat Pine for remote access (unless you're a fan of webmail, and even then you're hard pressed for something free).