I have quite a few different email addresses plus I look after two other company emails. To date I have used Thunderbird, which was fine until McAfee did an anti spam on it and it ground to a halt. Opera Mail, which seemed ok and I might go back to.
Mailbird, which crashed during an update and on rebooting caused windows to get corrupted (dont think the two were related) and wouldn't load properly and Zimbra Desktop, which seemed ok until I set my emails up on a temp computer and it hadn't recorded sent emails to IMAP.
On my temp computer I'm currently using Mail for Windows 10 for the Leger emails, which I don't like at all and only running 4 email addresses (I daren't risk more)
Suggestions please.
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Hmm. It must be the season for email software to go wrong, because mine had a little accident a few weeks back - something caused a mailbox to become corrupted, and when I fixed that one, another went kaput, and so on. I didn't get to the bottom of what went wrong and, in the end, I decided to simply archive the raw files (which I can - mostly - read; and I've already referred to them once) and start again.
That software - which I continue to use - is called Messenger Pro: www.intellegit.com It's not free (and to people accustomed to other Windows software, it often seems a little quirky) so I don't generally recommend it when people ask - because they usually expect email software to be free.
What I normally recommend to people is Thunderbird - which you've had a problem with. (Though, TBH, I suspect your real problem is your choice of A/V software!)
I don't recommend Thunderbird because I think it's particularly good or anything: until recently, I've never used it myself except to set it up for people. I recommend it because it's easy to remember.
Until recently? I decided recently that I should split out client-related emails from other stuff, so I set up Thunderbird on this computer for just that purpose. It's ridiculously large for an email program, but it seems to do the job.
I will give Messenger Pro a trial, as it's not that dear. I'm also giving some serious thought to using Outlook on MS365 for my work emails, which also gives me an excuse to update my office suite. It's a pity they don't do K9 for Windows, as I have that on my android phone, and it works brilliantly
I've also noticed Forte Agent in the Wikipedia list. I've used it before for usenet, and it is seriously good. Not used it before for email as such, but if it's as good as the newsreader, that will probably be my choice.
Agreed that it was the AV that caused problems with Thunderbird, but even after stopping McAfee from scanning emails, after that it ran like treacle.
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