Vista - Vista mail sucks!

I have been using Outlook for 10 years - not Express, though I have provided
technical support to Express users.

Just recently got my first version of Vista and it's mail program - it
sucks. Can't use a previous .pst file, it lacks features that were in
Express, and won't even keep keep text formats set from line to line (as in
fonts, <insert> off/on, bold or italicize, etc.)

It's terribly slow,

Given how badly Vista mail performs (based against how well Outlook 97 and
2000 did!) anyone out there have a 3rd party recommendation for a mail
program that has the feature set and workability that Outlook 2000 has? I'd
try the newer versions of Outlook except now I can't trust MS to preserve
features and reliability.

Windows Live Mail
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

"Peter Keep" <kflying@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Peter Keep" <kflying@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23U7Fbq9dIHA.288@xxxxxxHonestly you're comparing Windows Mail to Outlook, of course its not going
to be anywhere near as good. It is just an update and rebranding of Outlook
Express with a few new features like a junk mail filter.

You're right that Windows Mail, when dealing with huge numbers of messages
in the tens of thousands is quite a bit slower than Outlook Express, but
that's because now it stores messages as individual files, rather than in a
DB.

I use Outlook 2007.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Both Outlook 2003 and 2007 work well in Vista.
Given your resistance to change, better try Outlook 2003 first. ;-)

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Peter Keep" <kflying@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23U7Fbq9dIHA.288@xxxxxx