Comments on: Windows Mail Application: Not Bad, But Just a Bit Flaky

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:04:03 +0000

Installed it - pretty neat, not sure if I want to use something that makes me stare at ads (but I understand and accept why they’re there). It doesn’t remember the sort selection though - I like to have all my new email appear at the BOTTOM, so I click on the Ascending/Descending tab and it works, but when I switch away from that folder and back to it, it resets to having my new email at the top of the folder. Frustrating. The way it allows you to work with all sorts of email accounts is very cool!

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:16:14 +0000

Yeah? Cool, I’ll check it out…

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:56:37 +0000

Jeremy beat me to it, but I was going to suggest Live Mail Desktop as well. I have it set up right now with my hotmail and two IMAP accounts. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionid=6ac2bed2-b5a4-4a0a-a897-e36dd191a9f4

Neil

By: Jeremy Charette

Jeremy Charette — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:03:59 +0000

Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Mail Desktop are two DIFFERENT things. (I got confused too…) Live Mail Desktop is basically a stripped down Outlook, but it puts outlook to shame (in my opinion). It’s clean, slick, and allows you to condense all your email accounts to one inbox. (It also shows each mail account separately of course.)

Give it a try.

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:02:57 +0000

Nope, I haven’t tried Windows Live Mail Desktop…I’m not looking for a new email address, I already have my own domain. Or can their online tool work with IMAP accounts?

By: Jeremy Charette

Jeremy Charette — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:51:14 +0000

Have you tried Windows Live Mail Desktop beta? It’s phenomenal. Easy setup, simple but powerful, highly customizable, and it will work with EVERYTHING, including gmail. Best freakin’ spam filter I’ve seen in my life.

By: Windows Mail Application: Not Bad, But Just a Bit Flaky | TomCoyote

Windows Mail Application: Not Bad, But Just a Bit Flaky | TomCoyote — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:17:45 +0000

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By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:04:01 +0000

I hear you, but somehow I doubt users are going to do that - and I wonder, will backup applications find the hidden folders? I looked at my User folder and if I select the entire thing it’s 32.4 GB. If I select just the visible documents, it’s 30.6 GB. Part of the hidden data is the email…I bet some users just wouldn’t think to back it up. Making an Email folder would make more sense IMO.

By: Janak Parekh

Janak Parekh — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:25:53 +0000

(Is “Jason Dunn Dunn” a typo?)

I think the philosophy should be to back up your entire “Users\Jason Dunn” folder, excepting the local stuff (called “Local Settings” on XP, no clue what Vista calls it). This way, you don’t back up caches, but do back up everything else. I wonder if Vista’s backup tool makes such a process easy?