[Ham-Computers] Looking for a good email client

[Paul McInnish]

It may have been interpreted that I used Outlook Express...  Not true I use
the full blown Outlook which Microsoft still offers!

Best regards,

Paul McInnish
Deputy Sheriff (Retired)
Amateur (Ham) Radio: K4BET

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ham-Computers [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
Of Jim Hill
Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 2:47 AM
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Looking for a good email client

Hi Kurt:
thanks to you (and the others for tips and why they are good choices).
However, I have heard Microsoft no longer offers Outlook Express, but
obviously it still works.  I'm guessing they don't support win10, and
possibly win7.

I'm running win XP, 7, and 10 on various computers, but XP is only on those
computers that are not suitable for upgrades, and also for older hardware
and software.  I suggest you have Malwarebytes installed on your computer
(there's a good free version), and also make an image file so you can
recover in case you are unlucky.  I use Terabyte International Image for
Linux (works fine on win setups), but it is a little "techie".  I have heard
that Macrum is good, but have not tried it.  If you are "dragged" again,
win7 is very much like XP, and win10 is somewhat different - some things are
better and some worse, but the plusses exceed the minuses in my opinion.  I
still have a hard drive with win7 installed, which I can use in place of my
win10 drive by moving cables.  It was handy when coming "up to speed".  I
could use win 7 and tinker with win10, but now I use win10 and start up 7
primarily to get Microsoft updates.
Jim

At 07:46 PM 12/8/2016, you wrote:
>I've used Outlook Express for about twenty years, still do, does all 
>you mention, fast, efficient, using version 6 right now.  Tried 
>Thunderbird, looked/worked like a Chinese/East Indian copy of a ripped 
>off version of Outlook Express, clunky, not nearly as easy or 
>efficient, everything about it quite odd.  I get up to 800-900 e-mail a 
>day, filter them into several dozen folders, click the folder, speed 
>read the subject line at about six a second, delete them as fast, 
>over-all a few minutes, then spend just a little time 
>reading/responding to what I kept/care about.  I've also tried various 
>versions of Outlook as well.  A lot of bells and whistles not needed for
basic e-mail, so I dumped it.
>
>As for "support", if it worked to begin with, it'll work forever.  I 
>only upgraded to 6 because I got drug into Windows XP and 4 wouldn't 
>play nice with it or I'd still be using that.  So long as it works with 
>your OS, you don't need "support", just something functional from day one.
>
>Now if you've upgraded to something like windows 10, which in a year 
>and a half I have yet to see play nice with anything, including itself, 
>find something simple that works and if so, great, but can't help you 
>with specifics on that OS yet.
>
>Kurt
>
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