Alternative to outlook express

[Jim]

I'll be moving to Win7 full time in a couple of months and am now looking
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

[s|b]

Post by Jim
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/>

[H-Man]

Post by Jim
I'll be moving to Win7 full time in a couple of months and am now looking
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

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.

[Jim]

Post by H-Man

Post by Jim
I'll be moving to Win7 full time in a couple of months and am now looking
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

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.
--
HK

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) 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

[s|b]

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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.

Post by Jim
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.

[James D Andrews]

Post by s|b

Post by Jim
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?

[s|b]

Post by H-Man
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.

[H-Man]

Post by s|b

Post by H-Man
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.

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.

[AlleyCat]

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Post by s|b

Post by H-Man
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.

You are right about the recent version... I still run an older version of it
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.