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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Howard_Casto on July 07, 2020, 10:05:30 pm
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They recently changed the way our email accounts work with our ISP and I've been unable to get my parents' email accounts to play nice with the windows 10 default app. I need it to have two features.... it needs to be easy to use and I need to be able to set it to where it downloads the emails locally and deletes the server side copies automatically. I'm still using good old windows live mail, so I'm no help in terms of experiencing other programs out there.
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My thought would be if you are looking for similar product experience, just try getting a pre Microsoft 365 version of Outlook. You can get Office CD keys with a download link from ebay for a couple bucks. I'm using Outlook 2016 on Windows 10 with no problem. The fact that you get word docs and spreadsheets from Office is an added bonus.
I would hope Outlook can handle much more than the "mail app", but then again...Microsoft can bungle the same thing over and over on every release. :dunno
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I use Thunderbird
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I was using Thunderbird also until my office got office365 accounts. It would remove the emails from the server and only have them local. I was not a huge fan of it but I did not do much email at home so free was better.
J_K_M_A_N
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I prefer Outlook to Thunderbird immensely, but the latter is free.
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I like Thunderbird. You control whether it leaves things on the server and when they get deleted.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll give thunderbird a try and if I don't think it'll cut it I'll see about getting them outlook.
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Any chance you could get them to use a web mail client and then forwarding the ISP email to the new address?
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Nope. That's too complicated for them. I'm still trying to get my mom to wrap her head around the concept that there is a local copy of an email and then a server side copy.
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If you use IMAP you can pretty much ignore that.
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Any chance you could get them to use a web mail client and then forwarding the ISP email to the new address?
I was thinking the same implementation. Setting up checking a POP3 account in Gmail is pretty simple. It's set it once and forget it. He could even go a step further then to check the gmail account with whatever program he settles on, then knowing that if the computer dies there's a backup of the email somewhere off-site.
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Yeah but they don't want web-based they want a program. Also that wouldn't solve the problem of our ISP not automatically deleting emails downloaded locally. The program has to explicitly have that option.
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I’ve been using thunderbird for years. I can vouch for it.