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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: RobG on 20 August 2015, 18:36:16
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Currently using "Windows Live Mail" on Windows 7 64 bit. If I upgrade to Windows 10 what are the options for e-mail and do I need to change my address?
Thanks
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Not looked at lightweight email clients under Win10 (I use outlook as my email provider uses Exchange).
However, you should NOT have to change your email addr. Who is your email provider? Perhaps they can suggest a suitable Win10 client that works well with their service?
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Not looked at lightweight email clients under Win10 (I use outlook as my email provider uses Exchange).
However, you should NOT have to change your email addr. Who is your email provider? Perhaps they can suggest a suitable Win10 client that works well with their service?
Currently running Wi-Fi with Virgin Media
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
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Not looked at lightweight email clients under Win10 (I use outlook as my email provider uses Exchange).
However, you should NOT have to change your email addr. Who is your email provider? Perhaps they can suggest a suitable Win10 client that works well with their service?
Currently running Wi-Fi with Virgin Media
That's your internet provider, not necessarily your email provider.
So your email ends something like @virgin.net ? Do Virgin recommend a Win10 client?
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
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Not looked at lightweight email clients under Win10 (I use outlook as my email provider uses Exchange).
However, you should NOT have to change your email addr. Who is your email provider? Perhaps they can suggest a suitable Win10 client that works well with their service?
Currently running Wi-Fi with Virgin Media
That's your internet provider, not necessarily your email provider.
So your email ends something like @virgin.net ? Do Virgin recommend a Win10 client?
@blueyonder.co.uk
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
Outlook Express morphed into Live Mail back in the Vista days.
Outlook, part of the Office productivity suite, still exists, but will be entirely unsuitable for an ISP provided account, like yours.
Do you know if blueyonder uses POP3 or IMAP or both?
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Blueyonder is Virgin, TB.. available on POP & IMAP: http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2706&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1001&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=National
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There is talk that Live Mail 2012 works under Win10 TP, although you need to manually install .NET3
Can't find much definitive info on the released versin of Win10 though.
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Since MS dumped Outlook Express I switched to Thunderbird, been with me for years now and works as it should on win10, although I back on 7 now.
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Can't run windows 10 as I am still using XP. Must get a newer PC ;D
Keith B
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
Outlook, part of the Office productivity suite, still exists, but will be entirely unsuitable for an ISP provided account, like yours.
The Cloud-based Office365 service does allow other accounts to be linked and you can receive and send from the Outlook interface. You will also need a live account in order to use it though.
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Not looked at lightweight email clients under Win10 (I use outlook as my email provider uses Exchange).
However, you should NOT have to change your email addr. Who is your email provider? Perhaps they can suggest a suitable Win10 client that works well with their service?
Currently running Wi-Fi with Virgin Media
That's your internet provider, not necessarily your email provider.
So your email ends something like @virgin.net ? Do Virgin recommend a Win10 client?
@blueyonder.co.uk
All VM e-mail including the old ntlworld / blue yonder addresses are now googlemail provided and work fine in Outlook 2013. Best free option I've found so far on W10 is Thunderbird.
Steve
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It always beats me why nobody has ever managed to develop a truly decent e-mail client.
I use Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows and it's probably about the best of a bad job. It's preferable to Outlook, at any rate, IMHO.
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Agreed.
I loath the google mail platofrm with a passion, alas I cannot avoid it :(
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I actually quite like Outlook (2016 on the Mac, anyway) now.. although that could just be the Stockholm Syndrome.
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
Outlook, part of the Office productivity suite, still exists, but will be entirely unsuitable for an ISP provided account, like yours.
The Cloud-based Office365 service does allow other accounts to be linked and you can receive and send from the Outlook interface. You will also need a live account in order to use it though.
The standalone Outlook can also do POP3/IMAP based mailboxes. Badly. Its too cumbersome and too buggy for anything other than an Exchange mailbox (where it works fantastically well).
Thunderbird is OK as a POP3/SMTP client.
POP3/SMTP is really easy to do (unless you are the developers of Outlook!) - I knocked one up one afternoon a few years ago to do email forwarding on a provider who didn't support it - so I'm surprised there is not a bucketload of decent options out there :(
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
Outlook, part of the Office productivity suite, still exists, but will be entirely unsuitable for an ISP provided account, like yours.
The Cloud-based Office365 service does allow other accounts to be linked and you can receive and send from the Outlook interface. You will also need a live account in order to use it though.
The standalone Outlook can also do POP3/IMAP based mailboxes. Badly. Its too cumbersome and too buggy for anything other than an Exchange mailbox (where it works fantastically well).
Thunderbird is OK as a POP3/SMTP client.
POP3/SMTP is really easy to do (unless you are the developers of Outlook!) - I knocked one up one afternoon a few years ago to do email forwarding on a provider who didn't support it - so I'm surprised there is not a bucketload of decent options out there :(
There's no money in it thus it is always a cheap add-on to other products/services.
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I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal :y
Thought "Outlook" finished after Win7 ?
Missus has lappy with Win8 and no outlook installed on it
Outlook, part of the Office productivity suite, still exists, but will be entirely unsuitable for an ISP provided account, like yours.
The Cloud-based Office365 service does allow other accounts to be linked and you can receive and send from the Outlook interface. You will also need a live account in order to use it though.
The standalone Outlook can also do POP3/IMAP based mailboxes. Badly. Its too cumbersome and too buggy for anything other than an Exchange mailbox (where it works fantastically well).
Thunderbird is OK as a POP3/SMTP client.
POP3/SMTP is really easy to do (unless you are the developers of Outlook!) - I knocked one up one afternoon a few years ago to do email forwarding on a provider who didn't support it - so I'm surprised there is not a bucketload of decent options out there :(
There's no money in it thus it is always a cheap add-on to other products/services.
A good summation in a few words, on why I hate all email programs I have tried to date with a vengeance. They all have fundamental flaws! :(
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To me, and email client should be fairly lightweight and almost transparent.
That's why I've always recommened Outlook Express/Live Mail, as it generally works well (for POP3/IMAP), reliably, and does most things you'd expect an email client to do. Most of all, its seamlessly patched with Windows via the standard Windows Update.
The one exception is if the back end is MS Exchange, I'd recommend the MS Office Outlook client. Far from lightweight, its the only one that fully exploits Exchange's abilities.