[DECtalk] Off-topic - Email client?

[Tony Baechler]

Did you see my posts to you about this on the Speakup list?  I recommend 
Thunderbird.  It meets all of your requirements.  Since your profile is 
completely separate from the program location, you can copy your profile to 
a flash drive and access your mail from anywhere.  Also, I strongly suggest 
that you switch to IMAP instead of POP3 for retrieving your mail if you 
haven't done so already.  IMAP is much faster and avoids a lot of problems, 
not to mention also making your mail available anywhere, including the web 
if you have a webmail package installed.  Also, Windows 7 does have Windows 
Mail which is supposed to be like OE, but please look at Thunderbird.  It's 
free software and runs on Linux as well.  Since Thunderbird uses standard 
mbox files for mail storage, you can use any standard Linux mail program to 
read them if necessary.  I've never imported from OE, but I'm pretty sure 
Thunderbird does that as well.  I don't use JFW, but it works great with 
Window-Eyes and NVDA.

On 3/3/2013 11:43 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's my situation. For over a decade, I've been using Outlook Express, and
> I've been happy with it. Now I'm upgrading to Windows 7, and guess what? No
> Outlook Express, and there doesn't seem to be a hackish way to get it to
> work either, other than running it in an instance of XP on a virtual
> machine, which seems like a lot of trouble just for Email. So here is my
> question. Do any of you know of an Email client that:
>
> 1. Works well with Jaws.
> 2. Has functionality similar to OE.
> 3. Can import Outlook Express messages and address books, or can import mbox
> files. There's a tool called DBXtract or something similar to convert
> Outlook Express DBX files to mbox files.
> 4. Preferably uses a standard mail format like mbox or maildir.
> 5. Preferably is portable, so I can move it from system to system with a
> minimum of fuss.
>
> Thanks!
> Jayson
>
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Tony Baechler
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