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Big Al Mintaka
Hi Everyone,
I'm just getting Vista running on my systems and now I've run into huge,
heaping, steaming mound of confusion regarding all of these email
applications.
1. Can Outlook Express be used in Vista?
2. If it can't and I have to use one of the other email clients, which one
is actually destined to be the front runner in Vista: Mail, Live Mail, or
Live Mail Desktop?
3. What's the difference between Live Mail, Live Mail Desktop, and Live Mail
Hotmail?
4. I have tried Live Mail already, but it kept hanging up every time I tried
to do something with the message folders I imported from Outlook Express.
Finally I gave up, uninstalled it, and went back to Mail.
I do have a large number of messages in those folders. Outlook Express sure
has no problems opening and closing them. Are these persistent lockups a bug
in Live Mail, or is there some way it should be configured to handle a large
message store?
I'm not exactly crazy about Mail either, but at least it works.
Thanks to all for your time and patience in reading this message! Have a
good one,
Big Al Mintaka
Systems:
Two Dell Dimensions, 8300 and 8400
3,2 GHz 1GB RAM
HD Internal (2 each) 250GB, ~150GB free
HD USB2 (4 each) 350GB, ~200GB free
DVD+/-RW NEC 3450A, 3530A ATA
Graphics ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Linksys WRT54GS wireless router
OS: Vista Ultimate
SW: The usual Windows crap
I'm just getting Vista running on my systems and now I've run into huge,
heaping, steaming mound of confusion regarding all of these email
applications.
1. Can Outlook Express be used in Vista?
2. If it can't and I have to use one of the other email clients, which one
is actually destined to be the front runner in Vista: Mail, Live Mail, or
Live Mail Desktop?
3. What's the difference between Live Mail, Live Mail Desktop, and Live Mail
Hotmail?
4. I have tried Live Mail already, but it kept hanging up every time I tried
to do something with the message folders I imported from Outlook Express.
Finally I gave up, uninstalled it, and went back to Mail.
I do have a large number of messages in those folders. Outlook Express sure
has no problems opening and closing them. Are these persistent lockups a bug
in Live Mail, or is there some way it should be configured to handle a large
message store?
I'm not exactly crazy about Mail either, but at least it works.
Thanks to all for your time and patience in reading this message! Have a
good one,
Big Al Mintaka
Systems:
Two Dell Dimensions, 8300 and 8400
3,2 GHz 1GB RAM
HD Internal (2 each) 250GB, ~150GB free
HD USB2 (4 each) 350GB, ~200GB free
DVD+/-RW NEC 3450A, 3530A ATA
Graphics ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
Linksys WRT54GS wireless router
OS: Vista Ultimate
SW: The usual Windows crap