# Best LAN mail program?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 17, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672 "2000-08-17T03:44:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/1 "2000-08-17T03:44:14Z")
Windows 95/98 clients.
Which LAN mail is best for you and why?
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### Author:  [@ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ed)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/2 "2000-08-17T09:26:45Z")
I would recommend Netscape or Eudora.
Avoid Outlook and Outlook Express like the plague that it is.
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### Author:  [@irish\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irish_bill)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/3 "2000-08-17T09:45:01Z")
I second that Netscape. It has a lot of features.
I think it’s the right balance between security, reliability and features.
Webmail has less features.
Never fancied Eudora, personally.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/4 "2000-08-17T12:43:48Z")
We all know (or should) that outlook are targets for computer worm viruses. Do entscape or endoria offer any protection agains them?
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### Author:  [@CandyMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandyMan)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/5 "2000-08-17T13:12:25Z")
The protection that they offer is that they are NOT outlook.
A high percentage of the “virus” emails are actually just outlook scripts written to do bad things.
For example, the “I love you” virus was just this. It used things that you DO want to do and combined them in a way that is bad. You want your email app to be able to send something to all of the people in your address book. You just don’t want it to do it automatically.
Make sure to turn off javascript in email as well. This helps stop some evil email.
CandyMan
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-lan-mail-program/29672/6 "2000-08-17T13:35:40Z")
Survey-style questions like this are best served by In My Humble Opinion. I’ll move the thread there.