Email client for Windows 10

[Second_Chance]

We have used Microsoft email accounts (Live Mail/Outlook) since giving up the stix 'n brix with a cable internet provider/mail services. We were very happy with the Live Mail client for Windows until Microsoft changed their servers and sunsetted the Live Mail client.

The mail app provided with Windows 10 is woefully lacking in functionality (such as the ability to select multiple recipients from contacts, build mailing lists, etc.)

So... I've spent the past year trying to find a suitable solution and finally found something: eM Client The only limitation on the free version is that you're limited to two email accounts. Otherwise mail, contacts and calendar are all within one client and it synced with my Outlook account just fine.

Just thought I'd put this out there.

Rob

[thestoloffs]

joebedford wrote:

CarnationSailor wrote:

Second Chance wrote:
......We were very happy with the Live Mail client for Windows until Microsoft changed their servers and sunsetted the Live Mail client......

What do you mean that Live Mail for Windows has been sunsetted??

I'm still using Live Mail with Windows 10.

Yup, me too. I use Outlook 2010 for 4 email addresses and Live 2012 for 3 other emails. Why change?

If you aren't using Outlook.com/Hotmail.com as your ISP, then WLM is still fine to use.

However, if you are, then Outlook.com is being converted -- account by account -- to Outlook Mail. This is to move Outlook.com onto the Outlook 365 platform, which doesn't support Exchange ActiveSync, the protocol that allows WLM to synch up Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.

That's the major use of WLM, and MS has already removed its support for the entire Windows Essentials family.

[Gene_Ginny]

Campfire Time wrote:
... It takes more bandwidth to download to a local client than doing while on the Internet. ...

:h
An email of 100 characters (plus the header characters) downloaded to my local client are less than the 100 characters PLUS the HTML code to deliver the page online. If I want to read that email a second time I don't have to use ANY bandwidth.

[sherlock62]

joebedford wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore?

Webmail sucks for a variety of reasons. YMMV

X2

[Lantley]

Ed_Gee wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore? Use what ever web mail client is offered by your ISP. Or forward your mail to either Outlook.com (formerly hotmail.com) or Gmail and use the Inbox by Gmail web page. Outlook.com and Inbox by Gmail are super simple to use. They also corresponding apps for Android and iPhone.

I suspect people still use email clients because they want to be able to read, write, and manipulate their emails without being on the Internet.

Yes they want to have access with out being on line. They also want to store the email themselves.
They may also have years worth of email that they don't trust to just leave on the web, Lots of reason other than the fear of change.

[road-runner]

Campfire Time wrote:

It takes more bandwidth to download to a local client than doing while on the Internet. And there doesn't seem to be much point to doing it offline. Unless one has such a large volume of email, and then I could only see that for a business.

I don't know if it takes more bandwidth to download to a client or not. I have a primary email using a client, and a secondary email using Yahoo, and I can say time-wise, the messages download to the client a lot faster than they display on Yahoo. When on the road with a low bandwidth connection, it takes more data just to bring up the Yahoo mail page than to download all the mail I typically receive in a day. I think the client-based email presents a lower risk of being hacked into, and I sometimes search for things through the whole database going 15+ years back. When I'm on the road, I take a backup of the whole database on a flash drive, accessible without a live connection, and not hampered by a slow connection. So I think there's a lot of points in favor of using client-based email, and if somebody else is better served with a web interface, that's perfectly ok!

[AsheGuy]

What these forums are all about: Fear of Change

I've worked with computers since 1960 and have been through every iteration of change in the tech industry.

I use Gmail today and it is literally the best email solution I have had the fortune to use.

These threads about x, y or z being full of issues are amusing to me. If you don't like change. stay with the old. Just don't try to justify it with lame reasons why the new is no good. Change often brings temporary issues but they are usually left in the rear view mirror.

Just my personal opinion. As a previous poster said, YMMV.

[joebedford]

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore?

Webmail sucks for a variety of reasons. YMMV

[CarnationSailor]

Campfire Time wrote:

Ed_Gee wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore? Use what ever web mail client is offered by your ISP. Or forward your mail to either Outlook.com (formerly hotmail.com) or Gmail and use the Inbox by Gmail web page. Outlook.com and Inbox by Gmail are super simple to use. They also corresponding apps for Android and iPhone.

I suspect people still use email clients because they want to be able to read, write, and manipulate their emails without being on the Internet.

It takes more bandwidth to download to a local client than doing while on the Internet. And there doesn't seem to be much point to doing it offline. Unless one has such a large volume of email, and then I could only see that for a business.

When we are camping without Wi-Fi available, it is convenient for us to stop at a Starbucks or McDonalds just long enough to download our emails. Then we can read them later back at the campsite when it is convenient. We can also draft replies and send them the next time we stop at a Wi-Fi location.

[Campfire_Time]

Ed_Gee wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore? Use what ever web mail client is offered by your ISP. Or forward your mail to either Outlook.com (formerly hotmail.com) or Gmail and use the Inbox by Gmail web page. Outlook.com and Inbox by Gmail are super simple to use. They also corresponding apps for Android and iPhone.

I suspect people still use email clients because they want to be able to read, write, and manipulate their emails without being on the Internet.

It takes more bandwidth to download to a local client than doing while on the Internet. And there doesn't seem to be much point to doing it offline. Unless one has such a large volume of email, and then I could only see that for a business.

[Ed_Gee]

Campfire Time wrote:
Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore? Use what ever web mail client is offered by your ISP. Or forward your mail to either Outlook.com (formerly hotmail.com) or Gmail and use the Inbox by Gmail web page. Outlook.com and Inbox by Gmail are super simple to use. They also corresponding apps for Android and iPhone.

I suspect people still use email clients because they want to be able to read, write, and manipulate their emails without being on the Internet.

[wa8yxm]

Long, Long time ago I had an E-mail Client that ran in DOS, did not do graphics but did protect me from E-mail viruses since it downloaded them in 7 bit encoded format (They can't run that way) and I deleted them.. But alas that's no longer practical

So looking at all the stories of computers being Infected by those infected E-mails (And yes I got sent many infected E-mails) I choose to use a web mail client, My Provider supplied a very good Web interface.. That way the infected E-mails never show on my hard drive and thus never infect.

Now just for fun I tried to download an infected E-mail once... Finally gave up after page after page of "Are you really sure you want to do this?"

And that is the client I suggest. Your ISP's or E-mail provider's web interface..

Another advantage, I have two computers, a smart phone and a tablet, ALL of them can read any E-mail any time I choose (provided a connection) no need to be limited to any one device.. once downloaded from the host and stored on a single device, (if you delete as I have always done) other devices are SOL on accessing the E-mail.

yes, I know deleting E-mail is politically incorrect, but sooner or later the host overflows with offers of ..... Ur, I won't say it (My host deletes those for me as SPAM, after letting me review the headers of course)

[TenOC]

strollin wrote:
I tried eM client in my search for a new mail client and thought it was terrible and uninstalled it after a very short time. I agree that the Windows 10 client is also terrible.

After trying quite a few different clients, I settled on Mozilla's Thunderbird.

I like TB except for one feature. TB stores your emails on your "C" drive. I know you can the location, but it is not simple and TB stills want to default back to "C" drive. I like to store my email on my Data drive that is "F". This allows me to keep my operating system and all programs on the "C" drive and all my data on the "F" drive. This is the reason I use Windows Live Mail. It has the feel of the old Outlook Express.

[Campfire_Time]

Why is anyone using a dedicated email client anymore? Use what ever web mail client is offered by your ISP. Or forward your mail to either Outlook.com (formerly hotmail.com) or Gmail and use the Inbox by Gmail web page. Outlook.com and Inbox by Gmail are super simple to use. They also corresponding apps for Android and iPhone.

[strollin]

I tried eM client in my search for a new mail client and thought it was terrible and uninstalled it after a very short time. I agree that the Windows 10 client is also terrible.

After trying quite a few different clients, I settled on Mozilla's Thunderbird.