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Old Jan 15, 2016, 3:23 am
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Question Windows Live Mail replacement?
I am one of those PC users who actually likes Windows Live Mail (part of Live/Windows Essentials) and use that as my mail reader which is handy if one is not able to be constantly connected and can read and reply to downloaded e-mail (or write new ones) offline and then send when back online.

An update a few weeks ago has increased speculation that MS will probably kill off Windows Live Mail soon enough (as it did its Essential file-syncing stablemate Live Mesh in early 2014 in favour of the vastly-inferior cloud-based Sky/OneDrive in favour of the packaged mail app on Win 8/8.1.10 which I find to be not just pretty useless (have to be online, looks pretty but not remotely useful) and unstable (bombs a lot, if it even loads at all).

Other than buying an Exchange license (overly complicated), what are the alternatives?

I am generally using Live Mail for hotmail, yahoo and gmail accounts.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 4:53 am
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Unless I've misread what you're after would Thunderbird do the job? https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 4:54 am
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Thunderbird as a client, maybe using Gmail as an aggregator.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 5:58 am
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Uhh, the mail app in W10?
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 7:12 am
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Originally Posted by superangrypenguin
Uhh, the mail app in W10?
He said he doesn't like it.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 7:37 am
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Originally Posted by gfunkdave
He said he doesn't like it.
Oops. Missed that.

Uhh, buying a license for Outlook? I know the OP said he doesn't want to buy an Exchange license..................................slightly different

Yeah I'm a bit pedantic today.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 7:49 am
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No need to buy full-on Exchange, but you can get Outlook for $7/month with an office365.com account.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 12:59 pm
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Originally Posted by MAN Pax
Thunderbird as a client, maybe using Gmail as an aggregator.
I'm not sure the OP wants to go from one product that might be abandoned to another that is definitely being abandoned.
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Old Jan 15, 2016, 1:06 pm
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Another vote for Thunderbird. Unfortunately, Mozilla has recently threatened to stop Thunderbird development.
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