Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have always
used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I have only
had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

Outlook, outlook express or Thunderbird?

"Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in message
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> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have always
> used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I have
> only had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.

Forgot to mention o.s. is XP.>
>

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

"Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in
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> Outlook, outlook express or Thunderbird?
>
> "Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in message
> news:450bad32$1@clear.net.nz...
>> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of
>> use. I have always used o.e. but thnking of changing.
>> Outlook looks confusing, but I have only had a 2 second
>> glance on another computer. Thank for any help.
>
> Forgot to mention o.s. is XP.>
>>

(What is the difference between outlook and outlook express?
AFAIK it's the same program, and major crap at that. Don't even
MENTION Internet Explorer).

For the web, get Opera.

And a real mail client for non-web-mail and a real NG client for
Usenet. Xnews is great but complex. GrabIt is very simple. Both
free.

Hundreds of free and not mail programs. Google.

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:52:17 +1200, Fred wrote:

> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have always
> used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I have only
> had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.

I have all of these on my machine and if you have a strict security regime
then Outlook can do so many things that it's a waste of resources not to use
it.
However if you don't know (or want to know) about security then Thunderbird
is the one for you.

Browsing is another thing altogether and from the security angle then
Firefox is safe and coming from the same stable as Thunderbird, sits well
with it.
Opera browser is another safe option, but its email client was written by
someone who obviously does not get much email as filing is nigh-on
impossible.
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
http://www.jimscott.co.uk

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

"thanatoid" <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> (What is the difference between outlook and outlook express?
> AFAIK it's the same program,

Not at all. They are completely different, even down to the format of data
file(s) used.

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

"Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in
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> Outlook, outlook express or Thunderbird?

mozilla


>
> "Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in message
> news:450bad32$1@clear.net.nz...
>> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use.
>> I have always used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook
>> looks confusing, but I have only had a 2 second glance on
>> another computer. Thank for any help.
>
> Forgot to mention o.s. is XP.>
>>
>
>

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

On 2006-09-16, Jim S <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> wrote:

snip

> Opera browser is another safe option, but its email client was written by
> someone who obviously does not get much email as filing is nigh-on
> impossible.

It doesn't use the 'put this letter in this pigeon-hole' model; instead
you can classify each message in various ways and then use 'filters' to
see only messages that have been classified in a particular way or ways.
This is a lot more flexible than the traditional approach, and actually
makes use of the power of modern computers instead of trying to copy the
system that worked for clay tablets four thousand years ago ;))

Opera's approach works quite well for email, once you get your head around
it, (and I think has been imitated by Google for their Gmail) but isn't
really usable for serious usenetting even though it can handle newsgroups
to some extent.

--
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

On 2006-09-16, Fred <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote:
> Outlook, outlook express or Thunderbird?
>
> "Fred" <fred@parachute.uk.master> wrote in message
> news:450bad32$1@clear.net.nz...
>> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have always
>> used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I have
>> only had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.
>
> Forgot to mention o.s. is XP.>

Outlook is a lot more than an email program, and handles email somewhat
differently from Outlook Express. It doesn't handle newsgroups at all; if
you try to access neswgroups from within Outlook, it will fire up Outlook
Express. I think Outlook is rather less risky than Outlook Express, and
you might find that you like some of its other abilities. It will take
some effort to learn all its features.

Thunderbird is certainly safer than Outlook Express, and is fairly easy to
learn how to use. It doesn't do all that Outlook does.

There is a lot to be said for using seperate programs for newsgroups and
email. The two things are really very different, and purpose-built
programs tend to be better and more powerful. There are lots of dedicated
newsreader programs for Windows XP, mostly free for personal use and most
of them a lot better than OE or Thunderbird. Check out the newsgroup
called news.software.readers.

--
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

Fred wrote:

> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have
> always used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I
> have only had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.

Mailwasher for initial mail handling, Outlook for what's left. Xnews for
Usenet.

Some Outlook tips below.

--
View All Messages in Plain Text

If you are using Office XP SR1 update (does not work on earlier builds), you
now have the ability to force all incoming messages to be displayed as plain
text in both the preview pane and opened message form. This is done with a
registry key that stops the HTML engine from rendering the content.

Unlike other utilities, such as zapHTML or WYB, the message is not actually
concevted to plain text (or RTF) and if you want to see it in HTML format,
you can either remove the key or view it on another computer.

The key is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\O utlook\Options\Mail

Add a DWORD of READASPLAIN=1

Now all messages will be displayed as plain text.

get rid of that annoying "To send mail, first check your mail with a valid
POP3 accout" error message.
go to the account page for your account, click "More
Settings..." and select the "Outgoing Server" tab. On that page, check the
box that says that your outgoing server requires authentication and then
check the box to logon to your incoming server before sending mail.


Show all the commands on menus

On the Tools menu, click Customize, and then click the Options tab.
Select the Always show full menus check box.

Re: Outlook, outlook express or thunderbird?
 

Fred wrote:
> Any opinions on which program is best including ease of use. I have always
> used o.e. but thnking of changing. Outlook looks confusing, but I have only
> had a 2 second glance on another computer. Thank for any help.
>
>

I use Thunderbird for both mail and news--highly recommended.