Reflections on OE

[Marty]

I asked questions here over the course of about 10 years, most recently
in December when I was going to get a new computer with Windows 7. It
was then that I learned that OE was history, so I started using Windows
Live Mail. There were things I couldn't tolerate with it, mainly its
handling of pictures and other smaller matters.

So I tried Thunderbird which I'm still using. It doesn't have the
problems that Live Mail had but it has numerous minor annoyances which I
can't figure out no matter what I do.

So what's the point? Nothing other than I miss OE and wish it still
existed. I'm not a particularly sophisticated user of e-mail, but OE
handled pictures just the way I wanted and had none of the annoyances of
Live Mail and T'bird. I appreciate it much more now that I don't have it.

That's all. I found myself in an expansive mood and had a few minutes,
so I typed out my thoughts.

Once again, thanks to Bruce and others for all the help they provided.

[DAS]

Can you list 3 annoyances each in MLMail and T'bird?

I am still trying to decide how to move on. Win 7 (or 8 or 9) will
eventually have to be used.

I also have Outlook on my machine; I suppose it came with Office 2010.

DAS
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[Marty]

On 1/21/2013 2:27 PM, DAS wrote:
> Can you list 3 annoyances each in MLMail and T'bird?
>
> I am still trying to decide how to move on. Win 7 (or 8 or 9) will
> eventually have to be used.
>
> I also have Outlook on my machine; I suppose it came with Office 2010.
>
> DAS
>

Keep in mind that what I list may not be real problems, but could be
just that I haven't figured out a solution.

Windows Live Mail

1) I couldn't get photos to show inline. There's a thumbnail and
clicking on it takes you to a website, Microsoft Skydrive.

2) While trying to download messages, either at startup or by clicking
the appropriate icon, I don't recall seeing any progress bar so I didn't
know how long to wait.

It's been three weeks since I used it and that's all I can remember
right now.

Thunderbird

1) When looking at the inbox message list, clicking Reply without
opening the message does not mark the message as read.

2) If a message is opened and Reply or Forward is clicked, another
window opens in which you do the typing. So I have to close that
original window in addition to composing the reply and sending.

3) In OE I used the preview pane for Newsgroups but not for mail. In TB
it seems to be both or none.

4) When typing an e-mail reply, suddenly for no apparent reason the font
will get smaller. It seems to always happen when I go back to add
something or correct an error, but sometimes happens while I am typing.
Doesn't seem to happen on a new messsage.

5) Can't figure out the address book. There's boxes for first and last
name, display name and nickname. I don't know what any of them do except
the display name. That seems to be the one to display on the message and
the way it's listed in the address book. For example, I have a first and
last name of John Doe. If I want to see it listed in the address book as
Doe, John, I need to type that into the display name box. I'd like to
keep that directory style listing in the book, but show John in the
message header. If I type John into the display name box, then the
address book will show only John, listed under J. There is no apparent
difference in anything I see between leaving first and last names blank
and filling them in.

6) A lot of the choices under Tools>>Options are unclear, but that could
just be my ignorance.

The Live Mail photo thing was a major problem for me, but as I
mentioned, these TB things are annoyances. However, none of them
occurred with OE.

[Steve Cochran]

You can go this route: www.oehelp.com/OEnWin7.aspx

steve

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[DAS]

Thanks. Appreciated. Shall keep.

The Skydrive thing I think is related to strategy for newer MS products in
general, i.e. incl WLMail. I have seen this before. Apparently there is a
setting to stop that but have not had a chance to find out from sender.

MS is embracing the web...

DAS
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