Which email client?

Hi Sniper -

I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird, and am very happy with it.   It has a common look and feel to Firefox, my preferred browser.

I really like that both are tab-oriented, and this allows me to keep the number of open windows to a minimum.  With Firefox, I usually have two or three browser windows opened, by areas of interest, with multiple open tabs each.   One is dedicated solely to audio fora and web sites (I know, a sick obsession).  Another is for personal business (banking, investments, health, the weather, and so on), and still another nother is for work-related stuff.  One thing I also like is that if something goes wrong, or even if I decide to simply reboot, Firefox remembers all of my open tabs and restores them when it comes back up.  Anyway, sorry for the browser aside....

Thunderbird, similarly, allows me to easily switch among many open tabs for my inbox and various folders of saved emails.  Hopefully it meets your specific requirements.  As far as large files go, I have not hit a limit (but then isn't that more of a provider setting?).   Otherwise, with it being an open source project, there are lots of available add-ons.  I haven't tried any though, as the built-in tools for filtering, searching, etc., have more than met my needs.

Good luck!

Hook

Thanks guys - two jolly good answers. I will look into both. Cheers.

Sniper, I also recomend Thunderbird and I find the Enigmail addon a fine way to encrypt mail (It works right out of the box) on my Ubuntu setup. Also works on MS systems, documentation.

A new release of ThunderBird has just arrived, see ThunderBird 6 for details.

I also would recommend Thunderbird.

As a quick aside, even Outlook can handle locally mirrored IMAP, i.e. offline mode. It is possible.

The crux of your original question, though, seemed to revolve around being able to receive all emails addressed to *anything*@your-domain.com into just 1 receiving email account.

This is something that isn't anything to do with the client, but rather your host/provider.

(Given that your aren't going to be setting up your own email server, registering MX records, etc, but using a mail host/provider instead)

Some hosts only allow "x" many sub-domains and "x" many mailboxes. Check this first!

You are talking about an account with unlimited mailboxes. All of the "alias" mail addresses will be forwarded, by your host/provider, to your one "master" account, which your email client will be configured to receive from.

I use a similar setup myself, so in essence one may send an email to me at anything-you-like@blah.com and I will receive it.

It's great for using different "departmental" address, such as john@blah.com, info@blah.com and sales@blah.com, etc....

Usually, the mail server of the recipient business would filter the mail, by addressee, into the appropriate users mailbox, ready for them to receive. You'd simply skip this step.

And finally...... If you already have a web host, they won't *necessarily* be supplying any email hosting, or more likely a limited amount of mailboxes.

But anyway, as above, check the package being offered for the availability of unlimited mailboxes - often this isn't the case with the "basic" or "starter" packages.

Hope this helps!?

It does indeed. Thanks to all for your replies.