Hey guys.

I'm currently facing too many problems with my hotmail account right now. It doesn't log in/out smoothly, interface gets scrambled now and then, spam email gets built up there, and worst of all, I often get delivery failures and delays. I'm think of abandoning that god-damned thing altogether, but I need recommendations for new email clients. Anyone has any suggestions? I've researched a couple, but I'm not really certain which is the best. Gmail? Outlook? Thunderbird? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. :)

I like evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell_Evolution). The next best client on my list would be Outlook then Thunderbird, but both of these are memory and processor hogs once you have a large amount of email with an account. Ultimately, I use Thunderbird due to the number of cross platform / cross environment setups I have.

Thanks M.

I prefer Outlook but it's at it best in an Exchange environment, for my personal use I have gmail which has a very good web interface and a very good spam filter (if I get one spam message a year in my normal mailbox that's a lot).

I'd suggest gmail, in combination with it's web interface. If you want to use e-mail locally, gmail supports Pop and Imap so any proper client should be able to connect.

Btw, you're talking about abandoning hotmail and looking for an e-mail client. Keep in mind hotmail is not a client, it's a service, like Gmail. Without an e-mail service like Hotmail or Gmail just installing a client won't do you any good, since it's just a program for downloading mails from the server.

Oh I see. Thanks for pointing out the difference!

Personally, I use TrulyMail Portable - can carry it on a thumb drive from home to work, etc. Great email support and does automatic encryption to other TrulyMail users.