MS Outlook Express

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

WLM is much less user-friendly than OE. It does not have the same
interface as OE in that you cannot have _all_ your mail and
newsgroups folders visible in the same folder pane. And by visible I
don't just mean that you are able to see them because they aren't all
in faint pastel colours!

And let's say in OE and WLM you have a folder called "John" where you
put mails to and from John. If you want to know where that folder
is in OE6, you just right-click and look at Properties. You can then
go straight to that folder in WE if you wish to copy it. Want to do
the same thing in WLM? Just try. It's about as intuitive as a
toothbrush for hens.

Yeah! What you said! I took one look at WLM and went searching for a
replacement that more closely resembled OE. I settled on Thunderbird 2,
but there may be others that more closely match OE than WLM.

 

[Jeff Layman]

Yeah! What you said! I took one look at WLM and went searching for a
replacement that more closely resembled OE. I settled on Thunderbird 2,
but there may be others that more closely match OE than WLM.

Being trying TB. Looks clean - much like OE.

But its "Help" is online, and I don't find it very helpful. It's some of
the odd things I find annoying - like why does today's date in the list of
messages only show the time, and not the date? Can it be changed? If so,
how? I am sure there is something online which explains what can, and can't,
be done with Config Editor. If so, where is it?

I'll carry on with it for a while, but try out other clients along the way.

 

[bd]

Being trying TB. Looks clean - much like OE.

But its "Help" is online, and I don't find it very helpful. It's some
of the odd things I find annoying - like why does today's date in the
list of messages only show the time, and not the date? Can it be
changed? If so, how? I am sure there is something online which
explains what can, and can't, be done with Config Editor. If so,
where is it?

I'll carry on with it for a while, but try out other clients along the
way.

If it just shows the time, then it is today's date.

 

[Star]

No, actually, I hadn't. I've just Googled it. 4 Gbit/sec is fast! If they
can achieve 400 MB/sec in real life, that would copy even a large PST file
in a few seconds - if the hard disk itself is up to the job. Over USB 2 I
get about 20-25 MB/sec from a modern Vista or Win 7 PC to a Western Digital
"Passport" drive, so a 3 GB PST file (yes, I *have* seen them that big!)
takes a while to copy.

Have read several reviews and tests of HDD using USB 3 and they all
say that the 400 MB/sec is smoke and mirrors and the true transfer
rate is about 2 to 3 times USB 2 speeds.

Art

 

[Jeff Layman]

Jeff Layman wrote:

Click on the icon at the top right of the pane and you will be offered
column headers to add.

Yes, I know about that icon (although it took me some time to find how to
get new columns when I first used TB!). But it doesn't help my problem - in
fact the column says "date" when it doesn't show messages with today's
date, only the time.

 

[Roy Smith]

Being trying TB. Looks clean - much like OE.

But its "Help" is online, and I don't find it very helpful. It's some
of the odd things I find annoying - like why does today's date in the
list of messages only show the time, and not the date? Can it be
changed? If so, how? I am sure there is something online which explains
what can, and can't, be done with Config Editor. If so, where is it?

I'll carry on with it for a while, but try out other clients along the way.

That's just the way TB is. It only shows the time on messages
created/received today. I'm sure there's a way to change that in the
config editor, I just haven't come across it yet. If you want a good
reference to all the entries in the config editor, then take a look at
this link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Home Premium

Timestamp: Saturday, April 10, 2010 5:29:38 AM

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Being trying TB. Looks clean - much like OE.

But its "Help" is online, and I don't find it very helpful. It's
some of the odd things I find annoying - like why does today's date
in the list of messages only show the time, and not the date? Can it
be changed? If so, how? I am sure there is something online which
explains what can, and can't, be done with Config Editor. If so,
where is it?

I'll carry on with it for a while, but try out other clients along
the way.

You have to remember that this is Open Sores software and only designed
to be nerd friendly.

 

[Jeff Layman]

That's just the way TB is. It only shows the time on messages
created/received today. I'm sure there's a way to change that in the
config editor, I just haven't come across it yet. If you want a good
reference to all the entries in the config editor, then take a look at
this link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

Thanks. I've bookmarked that page.

 

[Jeff Layman]

You have to remember that this is Open Sores software and only designed
to be nerd friendly.

Lol!