Alternative to outlook express
Jim
for an alternative to outlook express.
OE does me fine i don't need anything fancy just able to send basic emails
as well as something that will be able to handle text based newsgroups, I
guess the early movers to Win 7 have already dug into this one and would be
grateful for your feedback, given the group were in i would prefer freeware
but would be happy to pay a small fee for the right app, so any suggestions
folks?
Jim
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> I'll be moving to Win7 full time in a couple of months and am now looking
> for an alternative to outlook express.
Mozilla Thunderbird
<http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/>
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H-Man
Probably the closest is Windows Live Mail. It's pretty similar with some
additional features. Once you get around in it, it's not too bad. I moved a
few people over who were OE users and they seem to get along fine.
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Jim
"H-Man" <Sp...@bites.fs> wrote in message
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able to import my old emails (right now there in dbx format) and at least
having my own email client like OE (or Thunderbird come to that) is that I
have control over my emails, i have had an experience where the webmail
providers shut my account down and i lost everything, plus WLM does not do
usenet i presume.
Jim
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> Probably the closest is Windows Live Mail.
The most recent version of WLM is a POS. It refuses to create quote
markers ( > ) in a reply/follow-up. Unless you want to annoy other
users, don't use WLM.
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> Thanks for the reply H-Man, 2 things worry me about WLM, firstly will it be
> able to import my old emails (right now there in dbx format)
Thunderbird will be able to import your e-mails, settings and address
book.
> and at least
> having my own email client like OE (or Thunderbird come to that) is that I
> have control over my emails, i have had an experience where the webmail
> providers shut my account down and i lost everything,
You can always register a domain with mailhosting and POP/IMAP/SMTP.
> plus WLM does not do
> usenet i presume.
It does, but poorly. As I've said in my other follow-up, the most recent
version of WLM doesn't create quote markers. Very annoying and difficult
to read for other users.
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H-Man
Okay, good to know. The people I have assisted do not use usenet so it's
just for email. I did know it could do news, but was unaware that it was a
POS. Personally I prefer TBird for email and a seperate news reader but
many of the non-tech OE users I try to help find TBird too different from
OE. Again, I personally think that's a good thing, but that's just me.
Thanks for your input on this.
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AlleyCat
says...
for all my email addresses... SMTP, POP3, et al... I run Gravity for
Newsgroups. If the original poster reads this... WLM - older versions are very
good and as easy to use as OE. I've WANTED to switch to Thunderbird, but I
didn't want the hassle of making sure all my hotmail accounts worked in it. I
only have one account that's NOT hotmail, so I am a little partial. Frankly
speaking, Thunderbird is probably more than you need... there are simple email
programs out there, I just knew WLM would be an easy transition from OE.... for
me anyway.
James D Andrews
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:26:27 -0000, Jim wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply H-Man, 2 things worry me about WLM, firstly will it be
>> able to import my old emails (right now there in dbx format)
>
> Thunderbird will be able to import your e-mails, settings and address
> book.
>
I have a question regarding Thunderbird import functions, since we're
on the subject.
When I switched over to Firefox, it imported my bookmarks, but it
splits my bookmarks into Firefox bookmarks and "From Internet Explorer"
bookmarks - not a big problem, but requires going to another sub-menu -
rather than combining them all.
Does Thunderbird do something similar when importing from OE?
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Jim
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome."
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