Looking to move away from M$ products. Been using Outlook for years now. Need something that has calendar if possible, or heck, something that would interface with ACT! (If I could only get it to work on XP Pro with the patch and all) I average no less than 25 incoming virii a day, so I'll still need Norton or even Panda to check for an incoming virus. Not looking for web interfaces, need the speed and acccessibility of a local application. Other requirements - rules, multiple folders, and ability to access multiple accounts (5-7).

So what do you use? Eudora? or what else is out there?

 

I've got friends that use Eudora and don't mind it and there's always Lotus as an option, though I'd rather gouge my eyes out. I haven't had too much trouble with Outlook and my firewall (Tiny Personal Firewall) has helped immensely.

 

For some reason I'm thinking whatever the successor to Sidekick (by Starfish) is. I'm pretty sure it interfaces with ACT (Sidekick used to) and will also sync with your PDA.

http://www.starfish.com/

 

I use Outlook Express... I thought Outlook had a calendar?

 

Outlook does have a calendar. I can't stand OE though, its much worse and can't handle the size of my email after a while, nor distribute the mail files like the .pst file can in Office XP.

Just looking for alternatives to Microsoft products here.

 

Take a look at Pegasus Mail
http://www.pmail.com/

 

I just started a new job a week ago and they use Lotus. Not too bad, although, they are switching to office XP within a month. It has a calander, but I still prefer outlook 2k.

 

I second this. Pegasus has been around for years and always been reliable.

 

Lotus Notes is absolute shit, IMO.

I've used Eudora since version 2 back about 5 or 6 years and always had good luck with it. However, I don't know that it is capable of all that you're trying to accomplish. I used it strictly for composing/sending and receiving email. Never got a virus through it and never had any real problems crop up.

 

Every place I've ever worked that used Lotus (3 or 4 places) had problems. All of the developers said that it was just a bad implementation. Well, if all of the implementations sucked, might it have had something to do with the product being bad...?

Basically, avoid Lotus. Yes, it meets your criteria on paper, but it bites...