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E-mail programs under Win7
I'm looking for recommendations for good, reliable, easy to use e-mail programs under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Here's what I know so far.
So ... any thoughts and recommendations would be greatly welcome! I apologize if I've insulted your favorite e-mail program above. These are subjective judgments, and I'm not interested in debating the merits of various programs. I'm just looking for other ideas. Thanks!
- My wife and I must both be able to use the program. She is not adept with computers, but likes Outlook, which she uses at work. I don't care much for Outlook, but I'm pretty adept with software. So whatever we get must be pretty transparent in its operations, but also high fucntioning.
- We used to use Eudora, which was a great program, but turned to crap when QualComm quit supporting it and it became an open-source Thunderbird knock-off with next to no documentation. We won't go back to it.
- We've been using Opera Mail for a couple of months. Opera is a great alternative browser, fast and well-designed. It's Mail component is flaky, however, using a system of display filters rather than mailbox folders and subfolders. This may or may not be a superior approach. But lately it has apparently been deleting e-mails before downloading them for the server, which means they're lost forever, an obviously intolerable behavior. Hence the search for something better.
- Windows Live Mail, which has unfortunately replaced Outlook Express in Win7, may or may not be a good e-mail program. When I was first setting up the new computer, I found that it had no way to import our Eudora mailboxes (meaning years worth of e-mail would be lost), and I gave up on it immediately. It apparently will only import mailboxes from other Microsoft programs -- the idea being, I guess, that no one would or should ever use non-Microsoft programs for e-mail.
- OK, yes, I will use Outlook if I have to (requiring shelling out for a version of MS Office that is high-cost, I mean high-functioning, enough to include Outlook).
- I don't suppose it's possible to obtain Outlook Express and run it under Win7, is it? I only looked at it once or twice a few years ago, but it looked adequate to the task and easy enough to use.
- I've got a program called Address Magic, which I hope will be able to convert Opera's filters into some other format for use by other software when we make the change. Opera is able to export messages to the UNIX mailbox format (MBS).