[ale] OT: Alternatives to Outlook on Winbloze

[briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net (Jim Philips)]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:22, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm going to visit my dad this Christmas and he is on Winbloze running
> Outlook.  Well IMO Outlook sucks and what makes it worse is Norton
> Antivirus.  He complains about mail not going out.  I can't seem to find
> anything wrong.  The mail servers are operational.  I've dealt with this
> problem before it came down to NAV not seeing the mail and checking it
> therefore it simply sits in the outbox.  Outlook never even pops up an
> error message.  They just set there and never leave.
>
> Is Eudora still around?  How about Evolution?  Will it run on Windows?
> What would be a decent alternative?

One good alternative is Aethera. It's a lot like Kmail/Kontact. It's developed 
by the commercial KDE software company called (what else?) The Kompany. You 
can check it out here:


http://thekompany.com/projects/aethera/