[Blindtlk] accessible email

[Mike Freeman]

Heather:

I can't believe I'm reading such reactionary rubbish from you. We all must change with the times. I still wish we were using CP/M but it won't happen. 

Best way to convert OE mail to Outlook is to install Outlook on the original machine and let its wizard convert the OE messages to Outlook's .pst archive and move that archive to the new machine with Dropbox. 

Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone


On Jun 21, 2012, at 14:16, "Heather Field" <missheather at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> As someone who has walked this miserable road, I would advise you not to touch Outlook with a barge pole. The cost is not worth it if you just want an email program. It takes a lot of setting up and has a whole lot of components you won't use. It also has annoying aspects like choosing Microsoft Word as a reader. I don't even know half the issues that caused it not to read my emails properly. I just couldn't waste the time and effort on making it work as my email program. That's all I wanted. Windows Live Mail works more like Outlook Express though you do have to get used to the ribbon. That means the keyboard commands have more keys in each one. For example, the command to check for new mail is alt+h+t+s+a. There are lots more of those long strings if you want to edit your contacts etc. However, most of the time I simply read and send emails. So, for me, it works fine.
> I advise you to skip Outlook unless you need a calendar, scheduler, journal, contacts management suite etc. It's not worth the hassle of the learning curve, or the money, if all you want is an email program.
> 
> Regards,
> Heather Field
> 
> 
> I would go with Windows Live Mail till you can get back to Outlook express.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Michael
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:15 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] accessible email
> 
> I've used Outlook Express for the simplicity of use with email and I am moving to Windows 7.0 from XP and am wondering which email server offers the greatest ease of use.  If I go to Microsoft Outlook from Outlook Express, can I still have access to all of my previous emails?  I understand that Outlook Express will once again be a part of Windows 8.0 and will definitely switch to it when I upgrade my operating system
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Michael.
> _______________________________________________
> blindtlk mailing list
> blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for blindtlk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindtlk_nfbnet.org/missheather%40comcast.net 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> blindtlk mailing list
> blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindtlk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for blindtlk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindtlk_nfbnet.org/k7uij%40panix.com