You should both spend some time in the Outlook Express newsgroups. The mail
store in OE was the cause of many problems. The mail store in Windows Mail
is more robust and also a more standard way of storing email and newsgroup
posts. It definitely has teething problems but there is more room for future
development with Windows Mail than with OE. It will be easier for 3rd party
developers to work with the email store and it is easier to recover
individual emails from a corrupted store. As Windows mail is updated it
should improve. I do agree that at present it is slower than OE, especially
if you use it as a newsreader and like to keep thousands of posts. I'm
prepared to live with this for now as I know the potential is there for WM
to be better than OE was.
--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca
"Danny" <me@there.com> wrote in message
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> "MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
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>>> Appreciate the reply, but it seems to be formulated from the basis that
>>> OE was faulty. For me it was not, in any way, shape or form.
>>
>> I agree. While I have used Outlook for years as my email client, OE has
>> performed very well for handling newsgroups. I don't see or "feel" any
>> improvement in WinMail. In fact, it seems very much like a buggy beta.
>> I have been quite disappointed with the performance of Windows Mail.
>
> Buggy beta is spot on. I have also just discovered they've dispensed with
> the address book in favour of a button bringing up 'contacts'.
> This program is a shambles, frankly. And I defragged my drive and found it
> didn't help speed Mail up.