John Ferrell wrote:
> I have a very large accumulation of emails in OutLook Express, several Gigabytes.
> I want to move to Win 7, OE is no longer available there.
> I need to move to an email program that will allow me to import the OE files for future reference.
>
> Google IS NOT MY FRIEND when I need a short, concise answer. It sometimes gives me way too much information to process! 
>
> I have not investigated many choices at this point but I am considering Thunderbird.
>
> I receive several hundred emails per day and I like it that way.
> I use many email folders and many message rules.
> Yes, I lead a very cluttered life and I like it.
>
> Recommendations, warnings and pointers to links are preferred but scolding for getting myself into this situation will be cheerfully acknowledged.
>
> If you feel the need to rant about my request, my IQ or whatever, please feel to do so. It is OK to unload your frustrations, I can handle it...
>
> TIA,
>
> John Ferrell  W8CCW
>  
> When injustice becomes law,
>   Resistance becomes DUTY.
>      Thomas Jefferson
>   
Thunderbird will import Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc etc. etc.

I have many rules and several 100 emails a day and all email since 2002 
in it.
Earlier emails are archived.
I have it set never to load remote HTML and Never to acknowledge 
receipts so that spammers can't verify the email works.
Supports RSS and Newsgroups also
I've used it with local files and also in the past set it up using only 
server filespace, to work on any computer I login on that authenticates 
with server,  inc  Linux as well as Windows without MS' poxy broken 
"Roaming profile" nonsense.

The search works OK too. I'm on 2.x rather than 3.x, but I may update 
shortly on the upcoming shortly to be released version.

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