How many use Amiga for E-mail?

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What software do you use?  How do you cope with newer non-Amiga (PDFs, Word, Excel, etc) file formats?  What account providers, like MyYahoo, work for you?

I use YAM, even gave it it's own partitin.  Seems to work well, especially with text and images.

My Yahoo account maintains a mode for older machines and works well with iBrowse.

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Unfortunately, in my business, church, and social circles, I am the only Amiga user.  People are always sending PDFs, x.xls, and word docs.  Apdf does a decent job and I can usually find a way to view Word files.  I normally have to move Excel files to another platform to view them. Eeerrr!  Did any of the Amiga spreadsheet apps read or translate Excel files?

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@ Wurzel

I love not worrying about opening some sinister attachment. There is a new clever strategy in e-mail subject lines: "I'm sorry we had a fight. See my e-card"  Then the mail is merely a link to click upon.  I'm not sure how the trap works, but I'm not going for it. Grin.

I guess no Amiga Apps open Excel files then?

I find Yahoo's e-mail less convenient to use than my own Yam. I simply appreciate that MyYahoo is every bit as usable on my ancient machine as it is on my wife's new one.  Many web sites and services take the attitude that "..only the latest standards on this site and users must upgrade or go without..".  Services that accomodate my preferences are somewhat deserving of my patronage, my humble philosophy.  Besides, I find them useful when traveling.

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@ swift240 and others

I might try out Simplemail though I have no complaints with YAM after many years.

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I tried TurboCalc, which has an option for XLS.  No dice.  The xls file is probably newer.

Also, I found this converter on Aminet but haven't had a chance to try it.

http://aminet.net/util/conv/xlhtml.lha