Just a Question - What email client(s) are you using on W7

jimbo45 said:

Hi everyone
just a question -- as there is no email client included with W7 what are you using.

I have no problem with Microsoft Outlook as I've got Office installed but what are other people using.

I actually don't mind Outlook myself -- I'm not a fan of "Web based" email clients and I really don't like "Windows Live".

Cheers
jimbo

None, gmail suffices for me. (ie. It's web-based interface, not using it with IMAP or POP.)

That's the way to go! I managed to get Windows Mail working along with adding WLM to the list. There's a sticky for getting WM going on 7 to look over. Windows Mail

Someone posted a thread for seeing WM work on the 7000 build some time back seeing the main executable dragged into the startup folder to get it running once you had ownership. The tutorial of course has been better written since that was first seen.

Once I had followed the original advice I actually copied the same files over from the Vista installation after to see a normal client. But the tutorial there saves all the extra steps taken for that one.

Very impressed with Live Mail which I'd not used before but the whole Cloud Computing concept makes me nervous ... a bit like asking Big Brother if he didn't mind watching you?

Gave up on the Brontosaurus Outlook and stole the Windows Mail folder from my Vista installation.

I have used so many mail clients over the years. I hated having to export email folders back and forth from Outlook Express, Windows Mail, WLM, etc. everytime a upgraded the OS. I also have three or four HTML/Java based email accounts (mail.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com) for mostly SPAM and registering stuff. I filter and forward all that to my main mail account at an Exchange Hosting service called webmail.apps4rent.com . It cost about 7 bucks a month and it is full featured. To access email from any place with an internet connection, I just type in the URL and get an Outlook Web Access (OWA) interface that is very similar to Outlook and WLM.

I have ran my own Exchange mail server in the past and got hooked on OWA. So, I went looking for providers who are running Exchange servers in a state-of-the-art data centers with high speed connections and full data recovery capabilities. They also had to offer OWA and access to my mailbox using Outlook 2007. The best I could find at the best price was webmail.apps4rent.com. I can access it from any web browser on any OS at any time anywhere. I use Outlook 2007 only to sync up my folders and provide a local copy (backup) of my mailbox on my hard drive. I can wipe it clean and start over easily because my actual real mailbox is on apps4rent's servers. I am happy.

LapTopDog said:

Very impressed with Live Mail which I'd not used before but the whole Cloud Computing concept makes me nervous ... a bit like asking Big Brother if he didn't mind watching you?

Gave up on the Brontosaurus Outlook and stole the Windows Mail folder from my Vista installation.

Get it working ok? When first trying the idea out I went through the process of dragging the WinMail.exe into the startup once I had taken owership to see WM come right up when Windows started. The key when copying over from Vista was not just the folder in Program Files but the Application Data under your user account name.

The tutorial for this simplifies things considerably there however with a link for the TakeOwnership tool. If you are dual or multibooting XP and/or Vista with 7 that works on all three.

I use windows live mail because its easy to use, simple and nice to look at. It also has other functions eg calender. the reason i dont like using third party or even outlook for that matter is they always want to have something running even when your not using them. Live is actually really good, thumbs up from me.