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With Virgin and have used Outlook Express POP3 etc. to download and send mail from my Virgin mailbox for many years and like it a lot.

Got a new PC the other week with Windows 7. W7 does not support OE (Microsoft Grrrr.....).

Need a program like OE to handle my email. And I must be able to use my Virgin email address with it. My requirements are simple (hence why OE was perfect).

Tried Thunderbird and not comfortable with it. Don't want bells and whistles, organisers etc. built in.

Anyone got any thoughts on a basic email client.

Thanks

Dougie
 
Why not use Gmail, and get it to pick up your mail every half hour from your Virgin account?

This is the way I do it (with a domain I own) and it means that you can access your email from anywhere then - and Gmail will send from the Virgin account automatically if you reply to an email that came from there too.
 
Well you can download

Windows Live mail which is a pop3 client

I use "EarlyBird" from Mozilla at the mo as I only recently upgraded to 64 bit and my outlook 2003 won't run on W7 64 bit.

Simple but it works.
 
I agree with Leigh. I have my gmail account set up so that it receives from other email addresses
 
Microsoft god rid of Outlook Express some time ago and have now replaced it with Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail is the equivalent and does pretty much the same thing as Outlook Express but brings the client a bit more up to data and introduces a few more features.

You can get it here: Windows Live Essentials

You can either get all of the windows Live programs or just Windows Live Mail, you are given the choice during the download process.

Hope this helps.

Take care,

Keith
 
For what its worth, when I still used windows thunderbird was the one I used, I just set up the mail bit so it looked like OE and ignored the bells & whistles. I tried several others, I think Eudora and Opera [?] but none were as easy to use or 'felt' the same.


...and gmail is HORRIBLE!!! :p :lol: Mind you, I just don't like web/browser based mail anyway, all that logging in and out business, YUK! Even my gmail address comes into my mac email client :D
 
Oh, and another advantage of Gmail is that you can have any email pushed to your phone if compatible (I've got a Samsung Galaxy S3 that does it very nicely)
 
Where did all those other posts come from? LOL



*Makes a mental note to type faster*
 
Yv said:
...and gmail is HORRIBLE!!! :p :lol: Mind you, I just don't like web/browser based mail anyway, all that logging in and out business, YUK! Even my gmail address comes into my mac email client :D
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Which isn't an issue if you're accessing it through a phone ;)
 
jokeruk said:
Which isn't an issue if you're accessing it through a phone ;)
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Nope, its not and I do that, have all my website emails on there too through the phones email client, but the OP is talking about computers - he doesn't mention wanting it in his phone, though if he does, it is a simple way of doing it ;)
 
arclight said:
Tried Thunderbird and not comfortable with it. Don't want bells and whistles, organisers etc. built in.
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Thunderbird doesn't have those things built in - they are add-ons.

IMHO, Thunderbird is the best client. Windows Live Mail is too much like Outlook (which I use in work and don't like as much). The webmail providers all have their pros and cons depending on what you want.
 
Leigh I have gmail accounts but did not know they could access Virgin email.

Mark - Have found a lot of criticism of Windows Live mail. Will look at EaryBird - never heard of it.

Kelly & Rudolph - thanks

Yvonne & Andy - I may have not put enough effort into learning Thunderbird.

Andy - Ner was keen on Otlook either.

Cheers all.
 
arclight said:
Leigh I have gmail accounts but did not know they could access Virgin email.

Mark - Have found a lot of criticism of Windows Live mail. Will look at EaryBird - never heard of it.

Kelly & Keith - thanks

Yvonne & Andy - I may have not put enough effort into learning Thunderbird.

Andy - Ner was keen on Otlook either.

Cheers all.
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Just a small correction for you ;)
 
i use thunderbird and set that up on clients laptops and PC - for those who have used outlook express, outlook in the past

windows live mail is fine as well

i'm sure one of those will do the job outlook express used to do

also thunderbird migrates email really well to a new PC
 
All useful info from you good folks.

I have downloaded Windows Live mail (minus the other accessories on offer with it) onto my old XP PC for a play around. Very similar to OE so it feels like an old friend.
All the settings etc. were automatically imported from OE. That will not happen on W7, but I have all the info on hand to set it up.
 
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