I used a lot of free email clients in my life: Thunderbird, Foxmail, Pegasus, Dreamail...
Thunderbird and Foxmail, I used them for years. They are very stable and powerful programs, but requires tons of RAM to run.
The Bat is very powerful, very easy, very pretty and only requires a bit of RAM to run. It's very light. Special program.
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Recommend to a friend? Yes
Posted Dec 28, 2011 for v5.0.30
Great features in one package by petr_nadenik
Jun 23, 2007
I like TB very much, it has excellent templates, powerful filters and useful plugins, I am using it since version 1 and even I tested many alternatives, I am staying with The Bat! because its the best
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It has everything needed except 1) scripting language for advance use and 2) HTML templates (templates currently only allows plain text). Apart that it is very stable, open (many import/export for e-mails/contacts), and easily transportable (backup/restore the database is a snap).
One can regret the lack of communication of its developers.
Also, no cross-platform but Windows only.
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