Recommendations for simple email program for W7 pro 32 bit & XP pro.

klxdrt said:

Recommendations for simple email program for W7 pro 32 bit & XP pro.

Hi,:)

I'm looking for a Simple, like Outlook Express, to run on MY PC's with W7 pro 32 bit & XP pro.
NO interested in chatting, social media, smart phones, etc, etc, no time or interest.
NO interest in any form of web mail, all EMAILS & CONTACTS plus the PROGRAM must reside on my PC's
NO interest in T Bird as my ASP has problem with configuration.
JUST Business emailing of simple txt msg with maybe a PDf or some images attached.

NEED to be able configure it myself using IMAP as below:

Note: Make sure you enter @charter.net after your Charter.net Username or you will be unable to log in.

User name:
Charter.netusername@charter.net
Password:
The password you use to sign in to your email account
SSL:
This setting should be On for both SMTP and IMAP.
Protocol:
IMAP
Incoming Email Server:
IMAP.charter.net
Port:
143
Outgoing Email Server:
SMTP.charter.net
Port:
25
Web Mail Address:
http://www.charter.net

If applicable: Log in will be required when sending and receiving mail.

cheers,

klx

SSL is outdated

SSL 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0[edit]
Netscape developed the original SSL protocols.[9] Version 1.0 was never publicly released because of serious security flaws in the protocol; version 2.0, released in February 1995, "contained a number of security flaws which ultimately led to the design of SSL version 3.0".[10] SSL version 3.0, released in 1996, represented a complete redesign of the protocol, produced by Paul Kocher working with Netscape engineers Phil Karlton and Alan Freier. Newer versions of SSL/TLS are based on SSL 3.0. The 1996 draft of SSL 3.0 was published by IETF as a historical document in RFC 6101.

Dr. Taher Elgamal, chief scientist at Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998, is recognized as the "father of SSL".[11][12]

As of 2014 the 3.0 version of SSL is considered insecure as it is vulnerable to the POODLE attack that affects all block ciphers in SSL; and RC4, the only non-block cipher supported by SSL 3.0, is also feasibly broken as used in SSL 3.0.[13]

TLS 1.0[edit]
TLS 1.0 was first defined in RFC 2246 in January 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0. As stated in the RFC, "the differences between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough to preclude interoperability between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0". TLS 1.0 does include a means by which a TLS implementation can downgrade the connection to SSL 3.0, thus weakening security.[14]:1–2

Opera Mail is very good but does use TLS
Download Opera Mail - Opera Software
Opera Mail Basics Tutorial
Opera Mail has a great installer which lets you install it as a portable folder
If you choose options & in the next screen change the install path ( make sure you install it to a folder ) this enables further options Install for choose Stand Alone USB .
Don't like it just delete the folder & its gone.