Alternatives to Microsoft Outlook Express

[Edmundo]

Carrying on from the theme of the Firefox thread (it's great). What are the alternatives to Outlook and Outlook Express.

At the moment, I use a heavily Microsoft-dependent solution of Hotmail, linked to Outlook. But I'd be delighted to find an alternative that doesn't support the Gates Empire.

[Compton Bee]

At work we have migrated from outlook to lotus notes for e-mail and calendars. Once it settled down I have found it a lot more friendly than Outlook, easier to use etc.

[Edmundo]

Is it free?

[Banana]

There is the mozilla quite referred to on the Firefox page. Not used it or investigated it though. I also doubt it "integrates" into hotmail as well.

[Banana]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

[Edmundo]

No mention there of the ability to create an HTTP mail account (like Hotmail).

I guess my problem is that the ISP I use is brilliant, apart from its email server, which is always faulty and they have a spam filter on which does not give you the option of rescuing emails it has wrongly decided are spam. So I use Hotmail. Maybe I should just put up with Outlook until I find a better solution.

[Banana]

So outlook can read email from any HTTP mail site :confused: How does it do that?

[Edmundo]

I don't know if it can, but it has settings to read from HTTP sites - and you can choose between Hotmail, MSN and Other on a drop down menu.

[Wee Dave]

Yeah - it can read hotmail etc.

Look:

[davebee]

I have been using mozilla thunderbird for a while now. It is better for newsgroups than outlook