Outlook Express 6.0 Still supported or not?

[computerchallengedcc]

Someone told me that I must change from OE to Window Live mail because OE is
no longer being supprted by Microsoft.... Is this true or not?

 

[Ridge Runner]

Bull!

 

[Ridge Runner]

OE is built into Windows

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Windows Live Mail is replacing HotMail but not OE. OE is part of XP.

 

[Alias]

Someone told me that I must change from OE to Window Live mail because OE is
no longer being supprted by Microsoft.... Is this true or not?

Do not, under any circumstances, use Windows Live Mail. Outhouse
Distress is not being supported anymore. Try out Thunderbird. It's more
stable than OE and has an excellent spam/junk filter. Get it at
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird. It will work for both email and
newsgroups.

Alias

 

[N. Miller]

OE is built into Windows...

Wrong. MSOE is "built into" Internet Explorer 6. Any computer shipped with
MSIE 6 has a copy of MSOE 6. This is true through Windows XP; however,
Windows Vista is another matter. Vista ships with MS Internet Explorer 7,
which does not include a mail client. The mail client shipping with Windows
Vista is, "Windows Mail".

 

[N. Miller]

Someone told me that I must change from OE to Window Live mail because OE is
no longer being supprted by Microsoft.... Is this true or not?

Not true. MS Outlook Express is no longer being developed. It will be
supported, after a fashion, for as long as MSFT supports Windows XP. It will
probably work "forever", with a single exception.

What is changing is Hotmail support for client access. Windows Live Hotmail
will cease support for the WebDAV protocol (used for HTTPMail access). It
has been superseded by the DeltaSync protocol.

MS Outlook Express will not be updated to use DeltaSync for HTTPMail access,
so connecting to Hotmail servers from MSOE will be broken after June 30,
2008. Forever.

NNTP, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP access in MSOE will continue to work for as long
as they are used on the Internet. Which will probably be...forever.

If you need HTTPMail access to any Windows Live accounts, the only way that
will happen is with DeltaSync capable clients. I know of only two:

Windows Live Mail
Outlook Connector (works only with OL2003 and OL2007)

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Someone told me that I must change from OE to Window Live mail because OE
is
no longer being supprted by Microsoft.... Is this true or not?

False. Related:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ss.general/browse_frm/thread/ddd58bb43171e05f

True:
http://emailsupport.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5D6F5A79A79B6708!5359.entry

Discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...s.general/browse_frm/thread/54b191d2ef1c9614#
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Someone told me that I must change from OE to Window Live mail because OE is
no longer being supprted by Microsoft.... Is this true or not?

No.