[DECtalk] Off-topic - Email client?
Pitermach
pitermach at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 11:26:11 EST 2013
If you were using NVDA< maybe. I tried latest tb with jaws 14 a few
weeks ago, and it flat out refused to virtualize the messages. Which
could be a problem.
On 2013-03-04 10:27, Tony Baechler wrote:
> 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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