Email program,

Windows has an program similar to Outlook Express loaded in Win 10 but I can't think of the name.

I personally like Thunderbird. It's by the same folks who make the Firefox browser and has treated me well over the past few years. Like most email clients, it can handle POP or IMAP protocols. I've transitioned to using the IMAP protocol over the past year and wish I had done so sooner. With the POP protocol, viewing emails on your phone, laptop, and desktop quickly becomes a nightmare of downloading every message onto each device or trying to remember which device you were on when that important message came in. With IMAP (same protocol as webmail) the messages reside on the server and are simply flagged as read/seen once you've viewed them on one of your devices. The messages will still appear when you open your account with another device, they'll just be marked as already read. With Thunderbird and an IMAP protocol account I can also back the messages up from the server to an archive on my local machine in case my provider has a catastrophe.

Microsoft Outlook 2010, seems to be the same thing as the old Outlook Express as far as functionality is concerned, is the Win10 version Stephen mentioned.

Google is integrated thruout a smartphone.

Everything to control the phones operates thru the Google password that connects all their apps so GMail was the natural choice for me to send from the phone to the computer.

Stephen Ward, post: 355984, member: 1206 wrote: I personally like Thunderbird.

I'm also a T-bird user. However, I've not made the switch to IMAP. I have over 20 years of email -- much of it business-related -- stored locally, and haven't taken the time to figure out how integrate all that into an IMAP scenario.

My kludge is to have a copy of all my desktop email sent to my Gmail address. That way I can check and respond to email while away from my desk if need be. But there are 2 significant problems with this: 1. I have to remember to send a copy of my own email to my desktop account, and 2. some people will reply only to my Gmail address, so their reply doesn't land on my desktop unless I remember to send a copy there.

One concern about moving to IMAP is the account storage limit, but I haven't really looked into that too deeply.

Jim,
I think that you can solve both of those issues by using Gmail's filters and forwarding capabilities. Take a look at the settings. It is pretty easy to set up. You can also set up Gmail to have a different "Sent from" address, so if people reply it would go to your other account.

I keep about six months on the IMAP server and use the archive function in Thunderbird to back up older messages to my local data drive every month or so. I've not looked to see if I can schedule the archive process so that it is automatic. The archived messages still show up in Thunderbird under a folder named Archive with sub-folders by year and month and folders for sent/received under each month.

Edward Reading, post: 356133, member: 132 wrote: You can also set up Gmail to have a different "Sent from" address, so if people reply it would go to your other account.

I have it set up so that the reply-to address is my desktop account, but near as I can tell I can't spoof the sent-from address.

Jim Frame, post: 356141, member: 10 wrote: I have it set up so that the reply-to address is my desktop account, but near as I can tell I can't spoof the sent-from address.

Look at "Send mail as:" on the Accounts and Import tab in Gmail. I believe that you could enter your other email account here so that folks would only see that address rather than the gmail address.

I use Microsoft Outlook 2010

Stephen Ward, post: 356147, member: 1206 wrote: Look at "Send mail as:" on the Accounts and Import tab in Gmail.

That setting appears to require an SMTP server. My ISP uses a POP server on port 110, and the Gmail port options don't seem to accommodate that.

Jim Frame, post: 356155, member: 10 wrote: That setting appears to require an SMTP server. My ISP uses a POP server on port 110, and the Gmail port options don't seem to accommodate that.

POP on port 110 should be for the incoming mail. Outgoing mail should be SMTP. I Googled it to check my memory: IMAP vs POP vs SMTP

I am a former Outlook user, but have migrated ...
I use Thunderbird with POP on all of my computers, 5 accounts.
The settings I have are to leave the mail on the server, that way nothing gets lost when checking the same accounts on another computer.
when the server gets full older mail gets deleted, oldest first.

You can also Save individual emails in a normal folder...

The filters are awesome, mail goes into the proper folder, unread mail folders get highlighted.

a bonus with Linux is that the .thunderbird folder in the /home directory contains all of the mail, and all of my settings. I can Copy that folder to other computers and get an exact Copy of everything, including attachments. I need to do some cleanup, so now I have about 4.5GB in it.
I would assume the same can be done with Windows and Mac, but I don't know.

Jim Frame, post: 356141, member: 10 wrote: I have it set up so that the reply-to address is my desktop account, but near as I can tell I can't spoof the sent-from address.

actually sent-from can be spoofed... I don't know how they do it but I get mail from myself, lots of it. Filters help a lot.

I have webmail, but I use livemail also, which is the new free Microsoft mail. It's not great...

Dan Patterson, post: 356174, member: 1179 wrote: I have webmail, but I use livemail also, which is the new free Microsoft mail. It's not great...

My wife uses Hotmail, and has for a number of years, many of her family members use it too. Most of them have changed to Gmail.
Hotmail recently got morphed and absorbed into Livemail. That confounded her greatly. I try to help he with it and find it very difficult to manipulate. She does not want to change so we will have to live with the broken attachments, borked links, etc.

Peter Ehlert, post: 356178, member: 60 wrote: My wife uses Hotmail, and has for a number of years, many of her family members use it too. Most of them have changed to Gmail.
Hotmail recently got morphed and absorbed into Livemail. That confounded her greatly. I try to help he with it and find it very difficult to manipulate. She does not want to change so we will have to live with the broken attachments, borked links, etc.

I should clarify, I have a gmail account and my own business webmail account through godaddy. I have the Microsoft livemail program set up to display both accounts. The gmail one syncs pretty well, but I have issues with the sent mail from the godaddy account showing up in more than one interface. I think this is due to IMAP vs POP setup.

Stephen Ward, post: 356158, member: 1206 wrote: Outgoing mail should be SMTP

Ah, got it. That did the trick.

Thanks!