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What is the best desktop Email client for Windows 10?

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Best desktop Email client for Windows 10	Price	Platforms	Exchange Support
86 Mozilla Thunderbird	Free	Windows, macOS, Linux	Yes
-- eM Client	-	Windows	YES
-- Postbox	$20	MacOS, Windows	Yes
-- Mailbird 2.0	-	Windows	YES
-- Opera Mail	-	Windows	No

Mozilla Thunderbird

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Very reliable

Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected. See More

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Outdated interface

Thunderbird's interface is very outdated and unpleasant. It feels more like a Windows XP application than like a modern MacOS one. See More

Ryan Harris's Experience

Thunderbird is growing every other day. See More

Specs

Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux

Exchange Support:Yes

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Consistent and involving a moderate learning curve

The app design of Mozilla Thunderbird has not changed significantly since its beginning, making its learning curve almost non-existent. See More

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Development slowed to only focus on stability and security

Mozilla Thunderbird has slowed down its development of features to only focus resources on security and stability. See More

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Free (as in freedom and beer)

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Terrible search

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Good filtering system

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a flexible filtering system with the ability to set flags and read/unread, as well as sort/assign to new mail directories. There are also numerous plugins available to assist in the filtering. See More

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Terrible integration with macOS

Simple things - drag/dropping pictures doesn't work, for instance. See More

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Large assortment of plugins available

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client. See More

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Tabs for navigation

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Available on Linux, OS X and Windows

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Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration

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Send large files easily

Install pCloud plugin for Thunderbird and your files (upto 20 GB free storage provided) will be converted into download links. See More

eM Client

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Free and paid version

It is free for 2 accounts and as long as you don't use it commercially. Paid version comes with support and can handle more than 2 accounts. See More

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Constant syncing errors

ImmaculateKresnik's Experience

Has worked flawlessly and their built in integration with Fruux was a nice bonus. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

Exchange Support:YES

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Calendar inclusive

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Poor integration with Yahoo Mail

Integrations with a Yahoo Mail account doesn't always work well in eM Client. See More

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Still actively developed

They've been developing and improving it consistently for years. See More

Top Con

Poor encryption support

If you regularly use PGP encryption for e-mail, you'll need to have another e-mail client available to rely on. eM Client frequently fails to recognize when messages arrive encrypted, and there's no way to manually call up the decryption menu if it misses one. See More

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Beautiful interface, customisable to your needs

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Very fast

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It's simple to add new accounts

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Many useful options

Such as sorting through categories, etc. See More

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A perfect companion to your Gmail or other webmail you might have

Works great with Thexyz email. See More

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Chat included

eM Client includes integrated chat, so you don't need another application for chatting with your friends. All common chat services supported (Google chat, Jabber and others). See More

Postbox

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Quick Bar for macros

Quick bar allows you to add a variety of content to your message. It will let you reuse URLS in your Sent folder, and autocompletes against canned responses, signatures, and topics. See More

Top Con

Way too expensive

Currently the price is at 45€. That's ridiculous for an E-Mail client. The design alone is pretty but neither does that or the functionality in any way justify the pricing. See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, Windows

Exchange Support:Yes

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Thunderbird with more features

Postbox is based on Thunderbird but with more features and further development. See More

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One Inbox for all accounts

All messages in one place. But you can select to show only messages from each account either. See More

Mailbird 2.0

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Interface nags

The interface will often nag you to spam your contacts to spread the word about Mailbird. See More

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Fast

It does the job fast. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows

Exchange Support:YES

Top Con

Loses messages

It seems not to catch all files when importing. Often they only arrive days later. Or do not appear in the shared IN-box at all! See More

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Apps that extend functionality

Mailbird 2.0 supports separate apps that can extend the programs functionality such as Sunrise Calendar, which allows one to add multiple calendars in one view or Evernote which allows for easy not taking and sharing. See More

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Poor contact management

Only recently you can import from Gmail. But that's about it. See More

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Free and paid version

Users who only need to use the basic features of the app have a free version available, though it does limit to only 3 sync'd accounts. There is a paid version that does extend functionality and allows for unlimited account but it does cost $1.00 a month or $45.00 as a one time fee. See More

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Fixed files

You can't move them from one account to another, as we could with Windows Live Mail and others. See More

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Touchscreen support

Mailbird 2.0 has touchscreen support for tablets and other touch screen Windows devices which makes it easy to control no matter what kind of Windows device is being used. See More

Microsoft Outlook 2016

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Excellent notifications center calendar widget

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Crashes frequently

The only issue with Outlook 2017 is that when the Mail folder increases in size, it sometimes crashes for no reason it, causing loss of data. See More

Lynette Chia's Experience

Its search email function constantly DOES NOT WORK which frustrates the hell out of me. It just won't search no matter how I rebuild index and tried all the recommended suggestions. The only fix I found so far was to rollback to earlier versions which solved the email indexing issue but using that as a solution irks me. See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, Windows, Android

Exchange Support:Yes

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Good built-in contacts

In addition to showing contact information, the People section of Outlook can show all conversations you've had with a person. Moreover, if you're looking for someone that's not in your contact's list, but is in your company's or school's directory, Outlook can pull that information through integration with Global Address List (GAL). See More

Top Con

Rather buggy

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Once upon a time this was the ultimate communication tool for computers, but after a decade of interface stagnation it's now inferior to most basic webmail interfaces. See More

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Helps prioritize email

The app will automatically attempt to figure out which emails are important to you and surface those. The priority emails will show up in your inbox in a tab called Focused, with other emails in a tab called Other. It aims to separate spam and promotional emails from the important emails. See More

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No aliases

Outlook does not support email aliases other then outlook aliases See More

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Integrates with Microsoft services

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The UI is outdated

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Good built-in calendar

The calendar includes agenda, day and three-day views. See More

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Integrates with cloud storage services

Microsoft Outlook comes with built-in cloud storage browser allowing you to attach files directly from services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive or OneDrive to emails and directly open attached files without the need for the main cloud storage app. See More

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Integration with calendar and tasks

Quick conversion of a received email to a task with the deadline. See More

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Priority messages

Microsoft Outlook comes with feature called "Clutter" to filter out incoming email based on the priority of the message set by user. User will be alerted when the high-priority message is incoming, whereas the low-priority message will be put in a separate folder. See More

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Smart lookup

Smart lookup is a feature where the Bing search engine is bundled in the app to allow users to automatically search for relevant websites, information and images based on the word highlighted by users, without need to open external browsers. The results will be shown on the right pane of the window. See More

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Attach files from cloud

Microsoft Outlook allow users to directly attach an attachment directly from cloud services without need to download an entire file before attach to the intended e-mail. See More

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