Alternative To Outlook

I'm thinking of changing my mail client because OE doesn't do everything I need, I want to be able to set up rules fot outgoing as well as incoming mail. Does anybody know of a good and hopefully free alternative?

Just tried Thunderbird, that doesn't seem to allow a rule that does that either, nice otherwise though.

I just wasn't looking in the right place, it does everything I want. Love it, just off to donate now.

I hate to ruin yor epwc-only thread, but where does Thunderbird configure outgoing rules?

I still wish it were possible in Thunderbird or Outlook to have a "keep on server" rule. I could do it in Outlook Express, so it still boggles my mind that I can't do it in any other far superior email clients. Every once and a while, I like to send an email to myself, using a particular username at my domain.com, and I used to be able to set it so that I could keep messages to that address on my server and free for me to continue to reference via webmail.

Does anyone know, in Outlook 2000, how to apply a rule that will mark a message as read? At work I get all these messages that I don't need to read, but want to sort into their own folder. I don't want to go in and mark the folder as read manually just to get rid of the notification icon. I want to leave that free for telling me if there's something I actually have to read.

Any ideas?

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I hate to ruin yor epwc-only thread, but where does Thunderbird configure outgoing rules?

Thanks for interrupting

Right Click on Local Folders --> Properties

This brings up the Account Settings dialogue box go to Copies & Folder, click Place a Copy in and point it wherever you want.