Vista - Re: Windows Live Mail & Alternatives

I now have WLM V14, Outlook Express 6, Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 and
Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 all installed on this machine.

I'm experimenting with and testing their capabilities and limitations.

It's a worthwhile exercise in comparative strengths and weaknesses.

Outlook Express is still clearly the superior product of the lot...and the
most stable. But then it is not a crippled beta masquerading as a Final
Version.

But Thunderbird 3.0 beta 1 shows real promise....

It certainly holds contacts securely, rather than dumping them each time the
software is closed -- like Windows Live Mail.

Sadly, WLM V14 is the crippled runt of the litter.
--
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Deus Vult

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:28:37 -0000, D. Spencer Hines wrote:
And I have:

Pegasus Mail (default)
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
SeaMonkey 1.1.14 (includes email client)
Opera 9.63 (includes email client)
MS Outlook Express 6
Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606
40tude Dialog

As you can see, only one "Beta" in the list ("Dialog"; which I don't use for
email).
Running comparative tests is always a good thing.
IMNSHO, Pegasus Mail is the best of the lot on my computer; hands down.
I don't usually do betas. I make some exceptions, when the circumstances
justify it.
Pegasus Mail is just as good at not losing contacts, and better at not
losing rules, or even just creating, and using them.
It won't be installed, here, unless it is included with Windows Update (as
named in my Control Panel list).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

O.K.

I'll try Pegasus Mail.

One of the most annoying features of WLM is the "Limbo Feature" that has
been previously mentioned.

It's appalling that bug wasn't expunged in the "Final Release".

And one of the delights of OE6 is its deftness. It opens very fast -- so
unlike the funereal WLM.
--
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Deus Vult

"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47hq7nwcj62s.dlg@xxxxxx

Does Pegasus handle the hotmail mail OK, thunderbird did not otherwise I would use it.

I have been pulling my hair out with WLM over the past 2 days, but will post that issue seperatly so as to not hijack this discussion. Very frustrating software !