Fiddling with Freeware

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BrianE

Hi all,

I thought I'd try a new email client (bored at work) and downloaded Foxmail
5.0.

I've been using Thunderbird but Foxmail is like lightning in comparison. It
loads quicker and accesses e-mail accounts far far quicker.

It took a bit of setting up as I'm not the brightest spark but its now my
default.

Anyone else?

Regards

B
 
BrianE said:
Hi all,

I thought I'd try a new email client (bored at work) and downloaded
Foxmail 5.0.

I've been using Thunderbird but Foxmail is like lightning in
comparison. It loads quicker and accesses e-mail accounts far far
quicker.

It took a bit of setting up as I'm not the brightest spark but its
now my default.

Anyone else?

Regards

B
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Agree 1,000% ;-D FM has a few things you've got to get used to, but it
is an excellent alternative to OE...

Did you already meet "FoxTool" (removing multiple Re:'s in subject line
and formatting of your message? For those who don't know: FoxMail is
the mail client in which you can have a gazillion of Re:'s and in which
a paragraph is one long line... FT cures that! Also freeware!

(amongst others) FoxTools is also available from
http://www.hazeleger.net/special (FoxMail add ons)

Dick
 
Ok you've peaked my curiousity. I downloaded Foxmail and imported accounts
from OE but I cannot get it to send or receive. It gives me an error
message. It says "Unable to connect to server. Server may be shut down".
I know that the pop3 and smtp settings are right. My account and pw are
also right. So I don't know what's going on. :-(
 
Ok you've peaked my curiousity. I downloaded Foxmail and
imported accounts from OE but I cannot get it to send or
receive. It gives me an error message. It says "Unable to
connect to server. Server may be shut down". I know that
the pop3 and smtp settings are right. My account and pw
are also right. So I don't know what's going on. :-(
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I downloaded Firefox a couple times now (on and off, for
different versions, hoping to get it work). I however was
never able to get it to work. Can't get it to check hotmail
either, with got error messages. I finally had to uninstall
it and moved on. :-( Now I am partly using Pimmy as my main
mail archievers but use Thunderbird to read some of the html
mails from friends.




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Hi all,

I thought I'd try a new email client (bored at work) and downloaded
Foxmail
5.0.

I've been using Thunderbird but Foxmail is like lightning in comparison.
It
loads quicker and accesses e-mail accounts far far quicker.

It took a bit of setting up as I'm not the brightest spark but its now my
default.

Anyone else?

Regards

B
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I like Foxmail, but it drove me crazy that I couldn't display graphics
that come embedded in the body of an e-mail. I agree it's very quick and
very nice.
 
I downloaded Firefox a couple times now (on and off, for
different versions, hoping to get it work). I however was
never able to get it to work. Can't get it to check hotmail
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Hotmail is now owned by Microsoft, what do you expect??
 
mercoledì 04/ago/2004 _R. L._ in said:
I downloaded Firefox a couple times now (on and off, for ^^^^^^^
different versions, hoping to get it work). I however was
never able to get it to work.
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Foxmail you mean. Too many foxes around! ;-)
 
derek said:
Hotmail is now owned by Microsoft, what do you expect??
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To the OP: Did you check the "Use Hotmail Proxy" checkmark in the
account's settings? Otherwise it absolutely won't work! Hotmail Proxy
is a separate module loaded when needed, it therefore needs permission
on firewalls as well... just mentioning it to be complete.

Hotmail sending and receiving using FoxMail 5 should work without a
problem. Yahoo! seems to give more problems.

Please checkout the questions, remarks, how to's at the FoxMail
(Englsih) forum at:

http://www.hazeleger.net/yabbframe.htm under "support forums" (and
yes... that's my site :) )

Regards

Dick
 
Hi all,

I thought I'd try a new email client (bored at work) and downloaded Foxmail
5.0.

I've been using Thunderbird but Foxmail is like lightning in comparison. It
loads quicker and accesses e-mail accounts far far quicker.

It took a bit of setting up as I'm not the brightest spark but its now my
default.

Anyone else?
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Agreed

I really like FoxMail. It's very good in my experience with it. IIRC, there
were some things about filtering I did not like, but nothing serious.

I find it's a little fat at 10mb, but it's nevertheless very snappy.

Bob
 
Chaos happened and R. L. said:
I downloaded Firefox a couple times now (on and off, for
different versions, hoping to get it work). I however was
never able to get it to work. Can't get it to check hotmail
either, with got error messages. I finally had to uninstall
it and moved on. :-( Now I am partly using Pimmy as my main
mail archievers but use Thunderbird to read some of the html
mails from friends.
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For me, Hotmail works (or at least used to. I moved to Yahoo! Mail and now
just use my Hotmail address for MSN Messenger) [1]. I use 0.9.1+ (nightly
unstable).

[1] I read my mail (Yahoo! Brazil) with either Thunderbird or Sylpheed, but
sometimes I just use webmail.

[]s
 
R. L. said:
I downloaded Firefox a couple times now (on and off, for
different versions, hoping to get it work). I however was
never able to get it to work. Can't get it to check hotmail
either, with got error messages. I finally had to uninstall
it and moved on. :-( Now I am partly using Pimmy as my main
mail archievers but use Thunderbird to read some of the html
mails from friends.
Click to expand...

I'm very glad they were able build Foxmail in English. Now if it will only
work.....
 
Speaking of snappy email clients, anyone tried Jbmail
(http://www.pc-tools.net/) ? It is a tiny, tiny pop-smtp client that lets you
view and preview the messages in a pop3 Inbox, as if you had an imap account,
before you download anything to your PC. It starts and runs like lightening and
has a surprising number of features like SSL support, filters, --
 
howard said:
Speaking of snappy email clients, anyone tried Jbmail
(http://www.pc-tools.net/) ? It is a tiny, tiny pop-smtp client that lets you
view and preview the messages in a pop3 Inbox, as if you had an imap account,
before you download anything to your PC. It starts and runs like lightening and
has a surprising number of features like SSL support, filters, --
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I tried it once. The freeware version is too crippled for my taste

"The free trial version of JBMail never expires or nags for
registration. The limitations are that: (1) it can only save one
profile to disk, and (2) message flags (read, replied to states) are
not retained between sessions. In all other respects the free trial
version is identical to the full version."

I forget the other reasons i didn't like it.
 
The real gem on this site is the program "setbrowser." I've used it
for years. Lets you set your default browser regardless of whether the
browser program itself supports the feature.

Jeff Needle
 
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