Windows Live Mail replacement?
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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.
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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Unless I've misread what you're after would Thunderbird do the job? https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/
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