Thunderbird

[dungeonsandlizards]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A friend just got a new PC with windows 7, and the email setup is driving her nuts. She does a lot of coordinating with community groups and crafts groups, so lots of emailing lists and stuff to save in separate folders.
She'd rather have this stuff on her PC, rather than out there somewhere like Gmail. Has anybody had success with Mozilla Thunderbird?

Thunderbird is great. Your friend just need the right email server settings / email port numbers in order to set it up properly. Although the new version of Thunderbird recognizes these information when you input your email account, it is very beneficial to have them handy. In terms of Gmail, you need to configure the email account first. Enable its iMap / Pop3 capabilities before you can set it up in your Thunderbird email client.