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STeveD
12-28-2010, 04:15 PM
Background: I loved Eudora as an Email client, and I've been using 7.1 exclusively up until recently. Unfortunately it has trouble with sender names from Outlook 2007+ and attachments over 1.5MB and I needed something new.

Eudora allows me to rapidly search every Email I've ever written / received since I migrated to Windows.

Contraints: I HATE OUTLOOK. Slow piece of crashing mule ****.

I don't want online based stuff like GMAIL. I want something I can back up locally.

Goal: Find a fast 64bit Email client that can archive Emails into dozens of searchable folders that don't require "unarchiving" to access them.


Suggestions?

GaryW
12-29-2010, 10:59 AM
I use Thunderbird. Might be worth a look.
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

I believe it's 32-bit, but will run fine on 64-bit Windows.

There's also an unofficial 64-bit client:
http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Thunderbird:Download

MalcolmV
12-31-2010, 11:09 AM
Steve, I'm getting a Win 7 PC up and running and I looked around. Windows Live Mail ... Ok, but heard it can get slow.

So I've installed Thunderbird as well. Seems to be working fine. You can also have multiple profiles with Thunderbird (like the old Outlook Express), but WLM cannot.

AndrewR
01-03-2011, 09:27 PM
Thunderbird all the way, although it is challenged by Exchange servers and imap.