I pay for my email service. Experience has shown that there are things worth paying for and, to me, email is one of them. I find technical competence (no more ISP-provided email, thank you), a web interface that is less confusing than Gmail and technical support worth paying for.

Today, when I could not read or send email using my favorite email client, I thought I would be dealing with technical support. To my surprise, I ran into the technical competence instead.

The email client was Popcorn. It runs on Windows XP and later, and provides outstanding security. By and large it does this by being simple; addition by subtraction, if you will. To make an analogy, Popcorn is akin to the Sumatra PDF reader, whereas Outlook and Thunderbird are full-fledged beasts like the Adobe Reader.

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