E-mail progs

[Abou27]

Hello gents/1 or 2 ladies,

I'm wondering what e-mail software peeps use.  A few months ago I started using my Amiga as my primary computer for most things apart from interweb stuff.  Recently bought IBrowse which is surprisingly impressive - certainly usable on an 25mhz 040 (I hear giggles in the back from those with 060s or PPCs; quiet!).  Anyway, the next step is to transfer my e-mail accounts to Amiga.  I have tried with one such on the Amiga Mail prog included with 3.9 but lots of probs with receiving attachments.  Seem to be there, save, but turns out to be a filename for a file sized 0 bytes! - not good.  Sends everything fine, though.

So, if anyone could recommend good e-mail software, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers.


Ignore the following (especially if non-UK):


COME ON YOU IRONS!

[Holley]

Oh god help us, a Skittyhorpe Utd fan  :-(  :-P  :-D I work with two, and one played for the 'Iron Filings' amateur team.  It's enough to drive a (non-football fan) man insane, lol.

Have you looked on Aminet?  I thought I heard 'Pine' mentioned by someone else, if it's anything like the unix version it's a nice basic package.

[x56h34]

Have you tried YAM yet?

[JaXanim]

I would strongly recommend YAM (Yet Another Mailer).

It's available from Aminet and is well supported by other developers/icon creators, etc. Some say YAM is the best emailer on any platform.

Cheers,

JaX

[x56h34]

JaXanim is right. YAM is incredibly cool. Very simple yet powerful. It stands out as one of the best Amiga software out there.

[cgutjahr]

Forget the e-mail client included with OS 3.9 - it's crap.

Basically, there are two choices:

The legendary YAM.

And then there is SimpleMail, which is quite new, but under constant development. I didn't test it yet, but it's said to be as good as YAM.

[Abou27]

@Holley

No, no, I am a West Ham man (they got through to play-off finals tonight); close, though!

@all

Is YAM still supported? Do I need to/will I still be able to register?


Cheers.




P.S.  I can't get smilies to work (using IBrowse).  Any hints?

[Holley]

Interesting, the colours look the same and Skittyhorpe Utd's badge features the word 'iron' ... you learn something new every day :-)

[Abou27]

@Holley

You're right - the colours are the same too.  An old flatmate was a Scunny fan and used to try and convince me that, on those grounds, I was duty-bound to follow Skittyhorpe United too!

[4pLaY]

You wont have to register theyre both free (Yam & Simplemail) ive used Yam since i moved away from Thor (a great piece of software once) but recently ive moved from Yam to Simplemail because that one is more stable (at least on my Pegasos).

[Abou27]

Hi Guys,

Just to say thanks to those who recommended YAM.  Downloaded, installed, working in no time and very professional looking.  It seems very impressive.  Couple of freezing windows but I haven't taken time to configure it fully yet.  Sure these will be ironed out.  What a difference, though!

Cheers.

[Kent]

Yup, YAM and SimpleMail are the defacto email programs for the Amiga.  One of the main features I love about them is the lack of rendering HTML email messages.  I hope that never changes.

Damn html email messages.

:pint:

[Holley]

That sounds like a Scunny fan alright!

I can't stand HTML in emails either, but most people like to 'prettify' it, even if it does make each message over 10k instead of 1!

[x56h34]

100% agreed with no HTML in messages being a plus! :-)

[Dan]

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