One of the benefits of retiring is that I am no longer required to use Microsoft Outlook. At home I have never used Outlook, except to check my work account from home.
I’ve been using Thunderbird now for at least 7 or 8 Years, maybe longer. It did the trick and is free. It supports POP3 as well as IMAP in fact during setup Thunderbird is usually going to be smart enough to figure out what you need, and has been incredibly smart at setting up different email accounts automatically. Junk filters work well with prebuilt filters built into services such as Gmail, and the use of intuitive standard shortcut key navigation.
Some of the kewl things about Thunderbird has to do with its extensions. the two that I have set up are Enigmail, and Lightning. Enigma is an extension that seamlessly allows one to use gpg seamlessly into a message.. I like the ability to digitally sign messages.. although the encryption decryption capabilities are particularly useful.
Lightning does all the Calendar Tasks and Events stuff that we used to do with our Frankiin Planners. and does it better than Outlook which always seemed clunky to me.
Folks that have mutiple web mail accounts should probably look into using Thunderbird. It is a quick fast way of monitoring email accounts and is a lot faster than logging into the websites …
