I appreciate your answers but I don't have the background to grasp it all at 
this time. Probably going with Thunderbird and hope for an easy transition.

John Ferrell  W8CCW

When injustice becomes law,
  Resistance becomes DUTY.
     Thomas Jefferson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mcd@is-sixsigma.com>
To: <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:57 AM
Subject: [OT]Windows email reader?


>> I receive several hundred emails per day and I like it that way.
>> I use many email folders and many message rules.
>
> The business of moving my set of rules was very frustrating, and kept me
> on OE for far too long.
>
> While not specifically an email client, one of the things that has worked
> well for me is to run an IMAP server on my LAN.  My mail is periodically
> grabbed from my ISP, and the message rules, spam filtering, virus checker,
> etc all run on the server.
>
> Now, ALL my email is available in a consistent set of folders etc. from
> any client, even my phone, and since the sorting, virus checking etc. is
> done back on the server, opening up the email client is faster.
>
> Another big advantage is that exporting my email from OE was a real
> challenge.  The export to Outlook isn't great, and to most other clients,
> nonexistent.  By putting up an IMAP server, then simply dragging messages
> from my Outlook Express folders to the IMAP folders within Outlook
> Express, all my emails were now available, and better yet, in a
> non-proprietary format.
>
> Most IMAP servers use one of two standard formats, and if everything else
> fails, my old email is readable with a text editor.  I really hated the OE
> proprietary format, especially early on when OE went to a new,
> non-compatible format every few years.  That finally stopped, but it
> bugged me to have my email locked up by M$.  And the earlier formats were
> at least documented, in fact, I had written programs to pull off my old
> emails into text files for archiving.  Never did find documentation on the
> current format.
>
> Once you have you mail off on an IMAP server, if you try Thunderbird and
> don't like it, you can move to another client with no hassle; all your
> email is still there, you rules for sorting into folders are unchanged,
> life is good.  And you didn't loose any of your old emails in the process.
>
> Oh yeah, I'm currently using Evolution; not sure I'd recommend it.  I'll
> probably go to Thunderbird when I find one of them round tuit thingies.
>
> --McD
>
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