Outlook vs Windows Mail

[Chambro]

My Outlook Express 6 has become corrupted, so I am trying to decide whether
it is better to switch to Outlook 2002 or go to the new Windows Live Mail
program. I would appreciate any comments, both pro and con. Thanks.
Lew

 

[VanguardLH]

My Outlook Express 6 has become corrupted, so I am trying to decide whether
it is better to switch to Outlook 2002 or go to the new Windows Live Mail
program. I would appreciate any comments, both pro and con. Thanks.
Lew

Well, what do you want in an e-mail client?

- Notes? Those aren't in WLmail.
- Potent rule set? WLmail rules suck just as bad as those for OE.
- Add-ons that allow adding features or altering behavior in Outlook?
Well, OE and WLmail don't support add-ons.
- Journaling? Obviously not in WLmail.
- A look at the raw source as it was sent and before getting sliced up
into database records? WLmail is better for that.
- Connect to an Exchange mail server? Outlook can, WLmail can't.
- Separation of each account into its own mail store and shown as a
separate tree list of folders? WLmail does that. Outlook aggregates
all POP and Exchange accounts into one message store although HTTP and
IMAP accounts get their own message store.
- Payware or freeware? Well even you know Outlook isn't free.

The fact that one is free and other is not immediately differentiates
the two products. Until you specify whether or not you are willing to
pay for Outlook (alone or in the Office suite), why bother discussing
anything else. You need to establish your own criteria.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Live mail is more like what you are used to so unless you need the power of
outlook (in a 7 yr old version that is long out of support), you would be
better off with live mail.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What OS are you using?

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After furious head scratching, Chambro asked:

| My Outlook Express 6 has become corrupted, so I am trying to decide
| whether it is better to switch to Outlook 2002 or go to the new
| Windows Live Mail program. I would appreciate any comments, both pro
| and con. Thanks.
| Lew

 

[Chambro]

Thank you for the replies. I am using Windows XP. I own Office 2002 with
Outlook, so I have both mail programs. I have never used Outlook, but I
think I like its looks better than WLM. My main concern is that it may be too
old and could have security problems. The version I have is Outlook 2002
(10.6838.6845)SP3. Is there a newer version?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook 2007 is the most recent version. Outlook 2002 is less secure than
2007 or live mail, but its still secure enough that you could safely use it.
You'll have a smaller learning curve with live mail and live mail is easier
to use if you don't need calendaring and tasks.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.

Thank you for the replies. I am using Windows XP. I own Office 2002 with
Outlook, so I have both mail programs. I have never used Outlook, but I
think I like its looks better than WLM. My main concern is that it may be
too
old and could have security problems. The version I have is Outlook 2002
(10.6838.6845)SP3. Is there a newer version?
--
Chambro

What OS are you using?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Chambro asked:

| My Outlook Express 6 has become corrupted, so I am trying to decide
| whether it is better to switch to Outlook 2002 or go to the new
| Windows Live Mail program. I would appreciate any comments, both pro
| and con. Thanks.
| Lew

 

[VanguardLH]

Thank you for the replies. I am using Windows XP. I own Office 2002 with
Outlook, so I have both mail programs. I have never used Outlook, but I
think I like its looks better than WLM. My main concern is that it may be too
old and could have security problems. The version I have is Outlook 2002
(10.6838.6845)SP3. Is there a newer version?

The only security feature that I know is missing from OL2002 that is
available in later versions is the ability to block externally linked
contents, like images (which can be used as web beacons). There are a
couple ways to counter the use of web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mails:

- Do not use the Preview pane (turn it off). If you want a preview of
what is in a received e-mail, enable the Auto-Preview mode. This will
show the first few lines of an e-mail but as plain text. If it looks
like something you want to read, double-click it to open in its own
window to read.

- Use the NoSpyMail add-on (http://www.belshe.com/nospymail/). It
rewrites the src attribute in an <IMG> tag so the original content does
not get retrieved. It has an option to tell you when it found and
neutered a web bug in an e-mail but I don't bother and just let it do
its thing in silence. You can then use the Preview pane without
worrying if an HTML-formatted e-mail tried to use a web bug. It will
remove that externally linked content which also means it takes less
time to render that HTML-formatted e-mail (because the external content
doesn't have to get retrieved). You will get X's in your e-mails for
those senders that link-in their images rather than embed them into the
actual message; however, I found it rare that I actually needed all
those image to just read their e-mail. While this add-on will block the
linked images as do later versions of Outlook, there is no handy way to
turn it off and refresh the e-mail to retrieve that blocked content as
there are in the later version of Outlook.

Later versions of Outlook do have their junk filtering but I've never
cared for it versus using more effective 3rd party anti-spam solutions.
So some folks would point to the added spam filtering in newer Outlook
versions but it falls on deaf ears to me. There are some additional
features in the newer versions that I'd like to have but they aren't
worth the cost to me. Just not enough bang for the buck.

In fact, where I had to use OL2007 had me wishing that I was using
OL2003 instead. I've monitored eBay trying to get a good deal on OL2003
but there is still too much demand for it so its price is higher than
I'm will to fork out of my personal pocket. If I was forced to leave
OL2002, I'd probably go with WLmail or Thunderbird3 (after it gets
released, not before) and use EssentialPIM (and I'd pay for that product
since it's cheap for the extra full-version features) to make up for
features lost from losing Outlook. They added e-mail to EssentialPIM
but I haven't used the new version to know if I'd use that e-mail
client. I suspect it would be too basic for me. But unlike WLmail,
EssentialPIM has a portable version, too.

 

[Chambro]

Thank you very much. Your comments are appreciated.
I think I will use OL2002. It has a cleaner look and will apparently do what
I need. Thanks again...