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any recommendation wrt e-mail services? - shadow

Posted: Sep 23, 2014

When I updated to windows 7, I lost outlook express email on my laptop and discovered -- Microsoft is not endearing in just this way -- that it cost about $35-40 as a stand alone. I don't really want to use G-mail for "everything" for privacy reasons -- any recommendations?

Firefox offers "Thunderbird" and has a half-dozen recommendations .. "cheap" annual subscription, but not free.

Email - TomQ

[ In Reply To ..]
Probably your two best options are
1) Microsoft Live Mail (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials) which is free, and I believe it will work with arbitrary email accounts. I've never used it myself. Or,
2) Thunderbird. I have used Thunderbird for years now, and while there are a few things I wish it did a little differently, it is a very capable email client. And it is, in fact, 100% free. You can download it at (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/)
Your email provider will probably have instructions somewhere on their home page about how to set up various mail clients. They're generally easy to set up, but the terminology used can be daunting.

Thanks! Worked like a charm though the EUA agreement - shadow

[ In Reply To ..]
was pages and pages and pages ... very off-putting. I may switch to a "private" server ... I dislike having "targeted ads" that obviously "follow" my google searches ... plenty of antipsychotics and chemotherapy agents... I use GMail for commercial e-mail subscriptions I don't really care about...
Oh well, some day when I have time on my hands to re-configure ... must remember to change passwords (like batteries in the smoke alarm) ...
(thanks again -- I guess I was either using wrong site search terms or they aren't all that eager to promote a "free" service.)

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