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Windows 7 question for the experts

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JimC1702

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Last night I ran the Windows 7 upgrade advisor and was shocked to find out that Windows 7 does not contain Windows Mail. I hate Live Mail and will not use it.

I've used Pegasus Mail in the past but my concern is for my saved mail, my contacts, and group email lists. I'd rather not have to manually re-do them all. I also downloaded Thunderbird but that will not import contacts from Windows Mail either.

How did you guys handle your existing mails when you switched to Windows 7? A lot of my saved mails are confirmations, license keys, etc. for add-ons for FSX.

Thanks,
Jim
 
I was surprised to learn the same thing after I installed Win7. I use Mozilla Thunderbird, a free e-mail client. Works just fine.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

One thing I'll say about the Apple OS (and Linux). When you install that OS, you will get lots of stuff with it (including e-mail). With Windows, you get only the OS. And Paint!
 
I dropped my bellsouth account....Now I just use Yahoo mail..

bellsouth sucked for me anyway..if I viewed my mail at home , then went to work, I could not view it again..

yahoo is web based and I can get it from any of my computers ...
 
JimC1702 said:
How did you guys handle your existing mails when you switched to Windows 7? A lot of my saved mails are confirmations, license keys, etc. for add-ons for FSX.
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I use SimpleMail (Firefox plugin) which offers to save e-mails to the disk in generic HTML format.
 
JimC1702 said:
Last night I ran the Windows 7 upgrade advisor and was shocked to find out that Windows 7 does not contain Windows Mail. I hate Live Mail and will not use it.

I've used Pegasus Mail in the past but my concern is for my saved mail, my contacts, and group email lists. I'd rather not have to manually re-do them all. I also downloaded Thunderbird but that will not import contacts from Windows Mail either.

How did you guys handle your existing mails when you switched to Windows 7? A lot of my saved mails are confirmations, license keys, etc. for add-ons for FSX.

Thanks,
Jim
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By Windows Mail, are you referring to Outlook Express or the older pre-Live version of Hotmail? Outlook Express...I never did use it even back in the Win98 days. It had too many security holes and lack of good controls for backing up/migrating saved mail when you were upgrading or switching computers/OSes...
Windows Live...I looked at it, but don't like it's interface either.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird for mail on my Windows machines. Once you get used to its difference from Outlook/OUtlook Express it's a pretty good email client. when I made the switch, I was coming from Outlook2002 and it imported my address book and folders/messages with no problems.

To import into Tbird, try this extension. It is supposed to allow transfer from Live to Tbird.
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
 
Like Paul I use Thunderbird as well.

I made the switch after I found out Windows had removed Outlook Express/Windows Mail from their OS.

I have no intention of using Windows Live... Anything.
 
JimC1702 said:
Last night I ran the Windows 7 upgrade advisor and was shocked to find out that Windows 7 does not contain Windows Mail. I hate Live Mail and will not use it.

I've used Pegasus Mail in the past but my concern is for my saved mail, my contacts, and group email lists. I'd rather not have to manually re-do them all. I also downloaded Thunderbird but that will not import contacts from Windows Mail either.

How did you guys handle your existing mails when you switched to Windows 7? A lot of my saved mails are confirmations, license keys, etc. for add-ons for FSX.

Thanks,
Jim
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Jim, you are correct there is no mail client in Windows 7 you are stuck with Live mail or using a standalone client. I opted for Outlook 2007 because I use it at work and it was able to import all of the Contacts, and my personal folders. You can Export the contacts from Windows Mail into various formats so you can probably save the information in a format that can be imported by Thunderbird or something simular.

BTW there is a way to run Live Mail in Local Mode so that it works much like Windows mail in that it downloads all messages from your service provider to your harddrive so you are not operating live online all the time. I can probably give you the steps (I run Vista / Win7 in Dual boot and I am in the Vista session right now), so if you decide you want to go that route let me know and I can get the instructions I used to convert.
 
I'm very old-fashioned. I've been using Netscape v7.2 for a very, very long time and see no reason to change. I've got archived mail scattered among thirty-some folders going back to 2001... :ernae:
 
Thanks for the repies! I see now that I can export my contacts from Windows Mail. I guess I can do what I did before when I changed computers and email all my saved mail to my Hotmail account, then send it back when I set up a new email program. Probably will go with Pegasus Mail or Thunderbird.

Jim
 
I've beenusing Hotmail for years, it's also web based and you don't lose any email, plus can read it over and over again.
 
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