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[Gaffers]

Agreed.

I loath the google mail platofrm with a passion, alas I cannot avoid it

[aaronjb]

I actually quite like Outlook (2016 on the Mac, anyway) now.. although that could just be the Stockholm Syndrome.

[TheBoy]

I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal

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

[Gaffers]

I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal

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.

[Rods2]

I am with BT...just updated to Windows 10...I use Outlook for e-mail, and its carry on as normal

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!

[TheBoy]

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.