Software of Interest: Secure Browser, Alternate email client
Recently I've begun surveying some free and secure software solutions to cover some things I use regularly. My targets were my preferred browser (Opera) and my long time email client (MS Outlook 2007). Yes, Outlook 2007 is rather old but it suits my needs.
I ended up settling on these applications.
eM Mail - free and a paid option (which I'll probably make use of) http://www.emclient.com/
and for browsing Comodo Ice Dragon secure browser
https://icedragon.comodo.com/
eM did a fine job of importing all my email accounts from Outlook and then Thunderbird. Its different to use from MS but picking up those differences is pretty straight forward. The only negative I've found, and this is from any other non-ms program, is that there is no utility to receive MS Outlooks Notes. No a deal breaker for me, just an annoyance.
Ice Dragon (build from Firefox) flawlessly imported everything from Firefox. I had to convert my Opera favorites and bookmarks to a HTML file to have Ice Dragon accept probably 20 years of links and such.
I ended up settling on these applications.
eM Mail - free and a paid option (which I'll probably make use of) http://www.emclient.com/
and for browsing Comodo Ice Dragon secure browser
https://icedragon.comodo.com/
eM did a fine job of importing all my email accounts from Outlook and then Thunderbird. Its different to use from MS but picking up those differences is pretty straight forward. The only negative I've found, and this is from any other non-ms program, is that there is no utility to receive MS Outlooks Notes. No a deal breaker for me, just an annoyance.
Ice Dragon (build from Firefox) flawlessly imported everything from Firefox. I had to convert my Opera favorites and bookmarks to a HTML file to have Ice Dragon accept probably 20 years of links and such.
I never liked Outlook (never needed the complicated "features"), and stayed on Outlook Express until just over a year ago (running it as my only app in a VirtualBox XP machine.) I switched to Claws-Mail which is working fine for me (after a relatively minor learning period because Claws is designed to replace OE.)
Good luck with your new software choices ;^)
My latest frustration is a change by my hosting company from easy, fast, low bandwidth SquirrelMail webmail to a another "more modern, efficient" webmail install. It uses lots more bandwidth, lacks basic ease of use features for quick scanning new mail, and the spam filter is pathetic. Of course, they don't care because they feel it is a great improvement because it looks more like Yahoo mail. Yeccchhh!!! Lots of cute unintelligible icons that don't have the functions I want and displaying mail takes 5x longer than it did.
They say I should install my own version of squirrelmail and maintain it myself ... which also means I am forced to waste more of my time because of their bad decision. Probably time to look for a new hosting site.
I'll give Vivaldi a shot. If it does a better job that Opera on youtube videos and is still as customize-able I have no issue moving over.
Try eM, if it cost anything it would be worth it but its free and that makes it an outstanding find.
The biggest pain with tBird is it's defaulting my email store onto the OS drive (C: or "sd__", I always keep all my data on Drive D:/ with ntfs format. I wish I were savvy enough to manage my Linux better, but guess I'm too old to make things stick!