Thunderbird alternative?

[Weatherlite]

My father's system was having so many issues over the past month with crashes, freezing momentarily, lock-ups, when he discovered it was a conflict between two programs whenever Thunderbird was used. So, he turned off one program and continued to use T-bird. No more problems! However, T-bird decided to install a new update and now, no matter what he does, T-bird causes him random problems for seemingly no reason. His temp solution is to uninstall it and install the previous version but turn auto-updates off, however, in case that doesn't become a good long-term solution he's looking for an alternative email program that's not a total piece of crap. I personally have no experience with this area. Sure, I can find examples on some sites line CNET, but I also wanted to get your take on it before I recommend anything.

Hope you can help. Thanks!

 

[TimoneX]

Operating system?

 

[Weatherlite]

Operating system?

Oops!! Yeah, that might help, huh? hehe He's running Windows 7 Pro. And of course, he says he has zero problems running things on his Ubuntu setup. lol

 

[TimoneX]

Not a fan, but could he get by with windows mail until mozilla gives up on their misguided upgrade a minute policy?

 

[Stratus_ss]

So... if he is using Windows 7, should this be in a different forum?

Perhaps you could PM a mod to move this to the Windows forum or maybe networking, internet and security. You will probably get better responses there

 

[habbajabba]

I stopped using tbird about 3 or more years ago. Switched to sylpheed and now claws. KomaMail is good also. Sylpheed and koma are both portable in windows.

 

[Automata]

So... if he is using Windows 7, should this be in a different forum?

Perhaps you could PM a mod to move this to the Windows forum or maybe networking, internet and security. You will probably get better responses there

Moved

 

[c627627]

There are many drivers (video card drivers in particular) and programs which have a "last good version".

Once that happens, the drivers/program should not be updated any more and any auto-update options switched off. I would wait until program version which works can't do something you want it to do and not upgrade until then.

 

[Weatherlite]

So... if he is using Windows 7, should this be in a different forum?

Perhaps you could PM a mod to move this to the Windows forum or maybe networking, internet and security. You will probably get better responses there

Moved

I figured since it was a non-MS program it would go in the alternative section, but now I see why...it runs on Windows! durrrr Thanks for the move!

He definitely wants to stay away from any form of Outlook. He's never liked it and I don't blame him. It has it's good points and bad points, but for his use it's not optimal.

I'll have to check out some of those you listed habbajabba. Thanks!