"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On 1/22/2012, pjp posted:
Ok, newer pc been using so finally decide to move email over to it from
laptop running XP to this pc running Vista and Windows Mail.

Can't set it up to access my Hotmail account like could in XP, e.g. same
as isp's email server, e.g. POP3 and SMTP.

What f'ing crap!!! What the hell was wrong with leaving it in and why if
I can't do what I want with this the included email program (Win Mail) do
I have to spend time and effort to remove the useless ....

Argh, I don't want to separate email and news into two separate programs
when I've been doing it way worked just fine for years. And it wouldn't
be Windows Live anyway!!! I hate web based email.

Just a rant!!! It's SO SO SO EXPECTED from MS for years now.

There are programs that do both, such as Thunderbird.

IMO, it's worth a try.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)




Yea, might go that route. Think my chief concern is being able to backup the
files so that they're usable later. With OE you can drag and drop the
various emails and news articles into a folder and burn off to disk.
Although not named ".txt" they are just text files for most things. Only
caveat was guarding against overwriting same named file.

Used to use Netscape and it's email/news client back in WFW3.1 days but once
did jump to 98 (was beta tester) haven't really had a need to go beyond IE
and OE since (till now).