Email readers
I am frustrated with my email reader. On the one hand I refuse to use "web based" readers like Yahoo or G-mail. I've been using Outlook for a while but it's sorting and filing system just sucks. I like Thunderbird, it sorts out the threads of conversations pretty well and stores them in a simple to use and easy to see "tree" format that I like. The problem with Thunderbird is that the attachments that other people send to me, often embedded in multiple forwards, will not open, nor will they allow me to save them to a folder and open them from there. It seems to be some sort of formatting problem. I used to use a program from Forte Inc. called Agent, but they "improved" it into incomprehensibility and I could not figure out how to use it after the last upgrade so I gave up on it.
I've tried out a number of other programs but none of them are really what I want. I guess it's time to search and experiment again, maybe someone has come up with a new one that actually is both efficient and simple.