Semi-OT: Email Program

try?

Depends...

I am a Thunderbird user and have been for at least a decade. Prior to that I was using Eudora and some other "store boughten" 3rd party mail clients.

Thunderbird is, AFAIC, THE best mail client out there at any price and it's FREE.

Not saying that Outlook can't do the same - maybe it can, but will numerous users bitching about it's security problems, etc. why bother?

Thunderbird handles not only your email but will also sync with your calendar and handle newsgroups.

I've not found much that Thunderbird cannot handle and handle well.

Give it a try, the only thing you have to lose is the bit of time it takes for you to decide whether or not it's for you. It is, again, FREE!

I'm a long-time Thunderbird user too; it works for me.

Perce

I've been using OE for 16 years, it does what it says on the tin. You don't say what the problem is. XP is miles better than 2000, go for it! Thunderbird is a pain to set up.

If you have a choice of XP, W7, or W8, my personal opinion is that you should pick W7.

I have XP on two computers and it works fine for me, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft and that creates some security issues.

I also have W7 on several computers, and it works well. I did the free upgrade from W7 to W10 on a couple of them, and that works okay too.

I don't have W8 anywhere and I don't want it. W8 reminds me of Windows ME and Windows Vista -- both were "upgrades" or new versions and both were crap.

On 30 Oct 2015, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney" wrote in alt.home.repair:

I used Pegasus Mail

Nowadays I mostly use Thunderbird. I have a feeling it requires XP or later, but I'm not sure of that.

I'm just about certain that Thunderbird has evolved beyond the pain to set up times. Its been a couple of years but I put it on my wife's computer to use when my machine was down. I recall it was quite simple.

Double ditto's to that.

On 30 Oct 2015, Frank wrote in alt.home.repair:

Thunderbird has a lot of options that can be set. That might confuse some people, but its defaults are reasonable so it should work for most right out of the box.

My favorite is Thunderbird. I use it on a few different computers so I use Thunderbird Portable on a thumb drive. Easy to set up, easy to use. Free too.

I use Thunderbird on both Windows and Linux boxes. In addition to email it also can do newsgroups.

Thunderbird 38.3.0 requires XP SP2 or above. 12.0.1 is the last 2000 version:

Thanks. I may have to stick with XP for compatibility reasons. What security issues have you seen with XP since it's no longer supported? I have had none with 2000 myself.

Thanks. I may have to stick with XP for compatibility reasons. What security issues have you seen with XP since it's no longer supported? I have had none with 2000 myself. ================ The only problem I see with XP and IE8 is websites not displaying correctly, compared to Firefox.

Have you had any problems with it?

-jsw

There are fewer problems than they'd like you to think , all the hackers are now focused on the newer OS's . I have several comps running XP Pro and XP Home , no problems that I'm aware of - but then I'm pretty anal about antivirus and antispyware software .

I was totally pleased with the virus magnet OE, until some how my browser got updated, and that made OE no longer work. Window Live Mail was a PIA, and I went to Thunderbird. I don't much like it, but is some what functional.

- . Christopher A. Young learn more about Jesus .

No security issues with XP? Seriously?

ROFLMAO!

Best troll ever!

Really ? I'm also an XP user , and I have no security issues - because I have good AV and AS software . It also helps if you don't troll places that are likely to try to ddownload a virus . And just where did Snuffy say he had no issues with XP ? He's using Win2000 , you idiot . -- Snag