On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 05:04:42 -0500, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >"George Neuner" <gneuner2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >news:kaed5btl92qr4v8ndevlgtv0f28qaaeju7@xxxxxxx... > >> My vote for an email client would be Thunderbird. It runs on XP or >> higher and you can import Outlook's PST files so as to keep your mail >> archives. Importing PST files directly requires Outlook be available >> on the same system [there is also a less friendly way to do it via EML >> files exported from Outlook where Outlook is not on the same system]. >> > >It's a common misconception that MS Outlook Express is compatible with MS >Outlook. But in fact the two products are architecturally unrelated. My understanding was that OE was based on the old (Win9x) Outlook. I know it isn't the same as the "enterprise" version. I wasn't aware that OE used a different file format. But, AFAIK, it does still export EML files, so you can move your mailboxes into Thunderbird (or whatever). >I am considering Thunderbird as an MS OE replacement, but my understanding >is that Mozilla has abandoned all but security-related support for >Thundebird. I have been kicking the (email client functionality) tires of >SeaMonkey under my Win XP. I believe that much of SeaMonkey is built on a >Mozilla code base. Yes and no. Mozilla has Thunderbird on a slow development track. It does occasionally get new features, but mostly now by having some very popular extension becoming built in. Seamonkey was a fork from a discontinued Mozilla application suite. It is not a Mozilla project, although it does incorporate Mozilla code from Firefox and Thunderbird. The problem I have with Seamonkey is that it tries to be all things to all web users. "Jack of all trades, master of none" is a truism. YMMV, but I would rather have very reliable purpose specific tools than an integrated suite which may do more but be less reliable overall. I'm not knocking Seamonkey per se - it seems to be quite well done - I'm just making a general observation re: integrated application suites. Netscape failed in part because it bit off too much, trying to do mail and news on top of the browser [and not doing them well - I loved the Netscape browser, but it's mail and news interface was just bad]. Mozilla discontinued its web application suite because too few people wanted it. George -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
