Eric said:
Are you following this thread?
Yes!
But obviously I overlooked your link :-( :-(
I'm so sorry.
I provided a link for the Windows
Live Mail that says it will automatically set up mail for certain
mail providers, that you won't have to enter POP or IMAP information,
that you'll have to tell it you have an account with AOL, gmail, etc
and it will choose that provider's default but it doesn't say if it
will tell you which one it's choosing to use. I was wondering if
Windows Mail had that automatic setup, or if Windows Live Mail would
use whatever Windows Mail used if it's different than the provider's
default..
No, there is no similar feature in WinMail.
But IMHO this does not really matter.
As to my experience it's easy to enough to set up an account manually
(at least if one is able to just read what the mail providers explain;
unfortunately, however, having monitored this NG for a while I gained
serious doubts on folks' ability to mange the basic "cultural
techniques said:
What would make Windows Mail better than Windows Live Mail?
I for one hate WLM.
The UI (user interface) is terrible and handling basic things with News
are seriously suffering.
I wont' work with this beast even if MS seems to be forcing us.
At present I'm still hoping that the hack enabling the usage of WinMail
under Win7 will still work in the final (as it is right now under the
RC).
If not, I will make the move to some other client for mail and news; at
present Thunderbird is my favorite candidate.
[...]
I don't know if all providers do, but apparently any mail provider
like AOL which has a local program for email access and a webmail
access which mirrors it is using IMAP.
OK, didn't know that.
Even if there are no rules available, I prefer IMAP by far.
Working with quite a number of computers and no Exchange-server in the
background I really do not see how I could my manage my work with mail
without using IMAP.
I did find this out thanks.
De nada.
Apparently POP is only better if you
need to set up local mail rules to route incoming messages to
different folders automatically,
Yes. The only advantage.
And something I really do not need.
IMAP has different folder hierarchies for each account and by that
individual Inboxes for each account. So there is no need for sorting
incoming mails after the account.
I just read the things in each Inbox and then decide to either delete
the mail or move it its proper storage place - Archive with a hierarchy
of subjects or ToDo-stack(s) wir forwarding to someone else. I would not
want to have this done without an intellectual decision anyway.
but IMAP is better if you want to be
able to mirror the email on another reader program and/or webmail
and/or another computer
RightyRight.
The same things in the same folders on every machine. And this
automatically.
or if you want to be able to download the
same mail more than once.
Naturally this too.
But not only the download. Far more important is the storage.
Everything I keep in the mail-store (with sophisticated
folder-hierarchies) is available everywhere (in the desktop in my home
office, on the notebooks, in my lab in the university and even in any
internet-cafe worldwide).
Go for it.
I cannot see what you might miss.
and I'll have to check with my mail provider if I can set up mail
routing rules on their end..
It could be possible. Depends on their possibilities and their
flexibility.
From our university's IT department I know that it's just some 3-liners
of UNIX code (let it be 10 at the max <g>) to filter things.
The decisive question is, however: Does one *really* need rules???
As said, I live without any.
And if it's managing a business, one would not use WinMail (or nasty
WLM) anyway. For that there is hardly any way around a mail-server
back-end like Exchange & Co.
Just my 2 cents
Rainald
