Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Ok,

so I turned on the PC tonight only to find that the genius that is outlook express has decided to delete two massive folders full of emails to do with university and my website. :mad: i have no idea what happened, everything is just *gone*

Fortunately, I backed it all up about a week ago :) but now I want to replace outlook express with a decent mail client. does anyone have any suggestions?

cheers,,

P

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Outlook? *runs*
Pass :confused: I use OE or Outlook and I've never had that happen. Did you check your settings in case you had left a check in the wrong box somewhere?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Thunderbird

haven't had any problems with it myself :tu:

MB

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Eudora, pegasus mail?
any of these....
http://email.about.com/od/windowsemailclients/ ;)
*waits for a linux client to be mentioned*

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Cheers MB.. I'll give Thunderbird a go :D

Paul... it was really weird. Everything was there this morning - I had rules set up to redirect mail coming to certain accnts to go into different folders.

THen i turned on the PC tonite and suddenly these two folders (one of which was nested in the other) have both vanished - no trace, nothing.

It's very very odd and I have no idea why it happened... ? I had no boxes to check unfortuanately - it's soooo weird! I think this windows installation needs to be wiped anyway, it's starting to be erratic as windows has a habit of being :dozey:

P

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

If you insist ;)

I wasn't going to because it was clear that a windows client was required, so I'd agree with Thunderbird, a more than passable alternative to OE.

Mutt (command line client) is always good though :p:

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Errr...have they been archived?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

cheers :) i'll have a good old looksee and shop around for a bit :) i'm stil confused, i think my pc may have a ghost in it ...!

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

lol, well done philip, although I haven't put linux on this pc yet and even when i get round to it, i doubt that, being me, i would be able to get to grips with a command line client :) thanks for warning me about it though ;) haha

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ahah? what is this archiving thing of which you speak? i've never seen it happen before, but then i've never had OE on XP before. how would i get them back? emails came into them everyday, though, but i'm not sure if it matters... ?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Could try searching your PC for .dbx files?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

Don't worry, it's not the only one :) When you do get Linux set up Ximain's Evolution is a very nice client. It's basically an Outlook lookalike/replacement which is powerful yet easy to use. Of course, Thunderbird will still run on Linux.

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

good idea!

i managed to find the name of the folder, about 5meg in size, yet can't seem to get oe to import it? i tried creating a new identity and everything, copying the folders across and what have you.. and tried the import messages thing as well, but still no luck.. it refuses to see that little folder! do you know what i am doing wrong?

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

One good place to start looking for information on OE is
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/probl...s.htm#mailgone might help if the folder is still there somewhere )

Re: Help me replace Outlook Express.. please!
 

ah yeah I have played with evolution on the other pc's - it's nice :D i am being lazy not intalling it on here, though - i need to put in a second hard drive as this one is ntfs and it won't shrink to fit in :) i have one spare but hacent' got round to doing it yet.. :)