A.D. Tejpal
adtp at airtelmail.in
Fri Feb 5 02:39:49 CST 2010
William,
Thanks for the kind confirmation. One factor that militates against adoption of third party mail client is that if the owning company happens to discontinue the product or fails to bring out matching upgrade suiting future versions of Windows, it can pose a problem in retrieving archived messages stored under the said application.
Apparently WLM is missing one of the nice features of OE, namely - hot key navigation. For example, in case of OE, pressing any key in the Copy or Move dialog box (or directly in the folders pane) takes you to the next folder where the name starts with the given character.
Best wishes,
A.D. Tejpal
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----- Original Message -----
From: William Hindman
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 22:50
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client
AD
I've used a hot-mail account for the longest time and always used OE as my
client. MS changed Hot Mail so that it was no longer compatible with OE and
refused to upgrade OE. That left me with a choice in MS mail platforms of
Live Mail or Outlook. After trying both, I chose LM for the same reasons
you've outlined here. I find it fast, convenient, accessible, and so far
compatible with all my needs.
William
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From: "A.D. Tejpal" <adtp at airtelmail.in>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 4:20 AM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Survey - Preferred Email and NewsGroups client
> Gustav,
>
> This survey was meant to facilitate choice of suitable desktop client
> in the context of eventual move from Win XP to Win 7. As per the results
> reported in a separate post, office Outlook (OL) appears to be currently
> the most preferred choice amongst the respondents.
>
> At present I am using Outlook Express (OE) for handling emails as well
> as news groups. Archived messages spanning many years serve as a source
> for ready reference and quick search. In case of any new installation of
> operating system, all the old archives become readily available by setting
> the storage path for freshly installed OE to appropriate folders.
> Availability of multiple identities has proved very convenient in tracking
> postings related to different forums in an uncluttered manner. One can
> switch from one identity to another without having to close the
> application. Each identity ha its own storage folder, providing added
> flexibility.
>
> OE is no longer available on Win 7. Trying to use it on Win 7 via guest
> Win XP on virtual pc is also not found practicable as OE declines to
> accept shared folders for storage.
>
> It is observed that on installations prior to Win 7, OL makes use of OE
> engine for accessing news groups. It appears that in case of Win 7, OL
> might have to depend upon Windows Live Mail (WLM) for this purpose.
>
> On Win 7, WLM is meant as a replacement for erstwhile OE. Neither WLM
> nor OL provides for multiple identities. However, WLM does offer separate
> Inboxes dedicated to each account. As compared to OL, WLM is a self
> contained application capable of handling emails as well as news groups.
>
> It is noticed that imports from OE to OL appear to distort dates of old
> stored messages. WLM is found capable of clean import from OE -
> identity-wise. Moreover, in case of WLM, the import can be conducted
> directly from individual storage folders of OE. This can be of helpful, as
> program to program import under Win 7 is liable to run into the hurdle
> that programs installed under earlier operating system won't be visible in
> Win 7.
>
> In view of the factors outlined above, if the choice for mail client
> were to be restricted to Windows or Office components, moving from OE to
> WLM would appear to be the convenient approach.
>
> Members of this forum are welcome to offer their considered views.
>
> Best wishes,
> A.D. Tejpal
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