Simple email app for Win 10

[KenK]

I usually use my XP machine with Gmail. I want to have a backup email on
the W10 system. I've tried to set up Gmail and Thunderbird with no success.
I get asked questions I can't answer to the app's satisfaction, like
passwords and a system name for an email address.

I need something VERY simple and helpful for this old old man. I thought T-
Bird would do it but no success.

Am I out of luck?

TIA


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[Boris Dorestand]

KenK <inv...@invalid.com> writes:

> I usually use my XP machine with Gmail. I want to have a backup email on
> the W10 system. I've tried to set up Gmail and Thunderbird with no success.
> I get asked questions I can't answer to the app's satisfaction, like
> passwords and a system name for an email address.
>
> I need something VERY simple and helpful for this old old man. I thought T-
> Bird would do it but no success.
>
> Am I out of luck?
>
> TIA

When you say backup you don't mean a different e-mail account, right?
You mean software on W10 that will access your single e-mail account,
the same one you access using your XP machine. In fact, you have a
Gmail account and you want to access that Gmail account on W10. Have I
understood right?

[KenK]

Boris Dorestand <bdore...@example.com> wrote in
news:86blkio...@example.com:

Yes. More or less. I wasn't particular about which email app.

Now I have progressed. I have a second copy of Gmail running on my backup
Win 10 system. Te problem now is creating a shortcut icon to use it. The
process seems to need the HD address of the program. Using Total
Commander, a file display app, I looked in all the directories I can find
that might contain them but find no trace of the Gmail files. Will have
to do more Googling I guess.

Thanks for your help.

[Boris Dorestand]

KenK <inv...@invalid.com> writes:

> Boris Dorestand <bdore...@example.com> wrote in
> news:86blkio...@example.com:
>
>> KenK <inv...@invalid.com> writes:
>>
>>> I usually use my XP machine with Gmail. I want to have a backup email
>>> on the W10 system. I've tried to set up Gmail and Thunderbird with no
>>> success. I get asked questions I can't answer to the app's
>>> satisfaction, like passwords and a system name for an email address.
>>>
>>> I need something VERY simple and helpful for this old old man. I
>>> thought T- Bird would do it but no success.
>>>
>>> Am I out of luck?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>
>> When you say backup you don't mean a different e-mail account, right?
>> You mean software on W10 that will access your single e-mail account,
>> the same one you access using your XP machine. In fact, you have a
>> Gmail account and you want to access that Gmail account on W10. Have
>> I understood right?
>
> Yes. More or less. I wasn't particular about which email app.
>
> Now I have progressed. I have a second copy of Gmail running on my backup
> Win 10 system. Te problem now is creating a shortcut icon to use it.

What browser do you use? Here's what I just did with Firefox. (The
same works with Google Chrome and probably with many other browsers.) I
loaded Gmail first. My browser was maximized and I couldn't see the
desktop. I clicked on the restore icon to unmaximize the window. Now I
could see the desktop. There's a lock on the address bar right at the
left of where the address of the website begins. I clicked on the lock
and dragged it to the desktop. This created a shortcut icon on the
desktop whose description begins with ``Inbox - [...]''.
Double-clicking the icon opens a my browser (or a new tab, if it is
already open) and loads Gmail. (If you are already logged in to your
account, it will open your email right away.)

See if that helps.

> The process seems to need the HD address of the program. Using Total
> Commander, a file display app, I looked in all the directories I can
> find that might contain them but find no trace of the Gmail
> files. Will have to do more Googling I guess.
>
> Thanks for your help.

You're welcome.

PS. I never used Total Commander, but I think you create a shortcut
icon with the procedure above. You might not need to find your previous
files.