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    Any Good Free Windows 10 Email Clients?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Rodster, Sep 16, 2015.

  1. Rodster

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    The stock Windows 10 email client is borderline garbage. The Windows 8 email client is far superior to what MS has now included in Windows 10.

    What's wrong with the Windows 10 email client?

    1) Send and receive might not work after an update. Confirmed by MS on their Technet site.

    2) Email notifications are non-existent either via Live Tiles or Notification Center

    3) The cutesy MS way of switching via email addresses is to click on the "People Icon" on the left pane. Big problem with that because with Windows 8.1 Email client you could see your new emails for each email address. I have roughly 10 various email addresses. So with this MS solution I have to click on each email address to see if I have anything new. And since you'll get NO notification of incoming email you'll have to manually check for new arrivals. At least with the initial introduction of Windows 10 the email client was pushing new arrivals thru the notification center.

    That has stopped working since new updates and because MS doesn't give you details while downloading their crap it's a guessing game what you're accepting.

    .....Windows 10 the gift that keeps on giving !
     
    Rodster, Sep 16, 2015
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    When I was running the upgrade I was using Windows Live mail as I do in W7.
     
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    Thunderbird is an excellent email program and it is free. It will give notification of new emails.
     
    TreeTops Ranch, Sep 16, 2015
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    I use the free version of emclient and it works great, I used live mail for years but i needed something new, i tried thunderbird but i did not like it, emclient is perfect for me.

    http://www.emclient.com/

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Sep 16, 2015
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  5. Rodster

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    Yeah, I checked into emclient but the free version IIRC has a 2 email address limit. Mailbird 2.0 has a 3 email address limit for their free version.

    Thunderbird i've used in a Linux environment but it has support from Mozilla till 2019 and there hasn't been any support on the Windows side in a couple of years, IIRC.

    I may try MS Live Mail.

    Edit: Meant to say Canonical, not Mozilla
     
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    Rodster, Sep 16, 2015
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    "there hasn't been any support on the Windows side in a couple of years, IIRC."

    Not true. I just got an update several days ago.
     
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    TreeTops Ranch, Sep 17, 2015
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    Yeah Thunderbird is actively developed... I won't use any other email client, especially with the Enigmail plug in for easy PGP when it's needed.
     
    Ethrem, Sep 17, 2015
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    Thanks for the updates re: Thunderbird. It's something I read on a Tech site about development only for Linux.
     
    Rodster, Sep 17, 2015
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    Ethrem, Sep 18, 2015
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