
Get Thunderbird
I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird (created by the same folks who gave us Firefox… the best browser out there these days) and am very impressed with it. I highly recommend it as a replacement for Microsoft Outlook, as it seems very stable, has an intuitive interface, and has features that Outlook has needed for a long time (i.e. the ability to easily change SMTP servers for outgoing email… this is a big deal for anyone who does most of their interneting from wi-fi hotspots)
I’ve been a fan of Tbird since Feb 2004. You should check out the extension (plug-in)
called Senderface. Here is a blog I wrote about Senderface:
http://quinqube.blogspot.com/2005/02/techtip-mozilla-thunderbird-great-add.html
Now if Matti Pehrs (the author of Senderface) would only add support for regular expressions…