Windows Mail

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Walt

Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
Walt
 
D

Dave Willcox

There is no Windows Mail in Windows 7. Microsoft has stopped
bundling any mail clients in Windows 7. You can only have Windows
Live Mail if you want to remain with Microsoft Products or look
for Thunderbird - another contender for top price.

Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features. You
will need to get used to Microsoft Outlook but that won't solve
your newsgroups problems.

What features are you looking for in a mail client?
 
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Andy Burns

Dave said:
Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.
Some might say that's a good thing, they'll still fix bugs, still
release new versions every 6 weeks, and they'll stop adding fancy bells
and whistles that people go out of their way to disable ...
 
G

Gordon

Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
Walt
There is a work around but it involves copying files from a Vista
installation AFAIK.
Google is your friend...
 
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Nil

There is a work around but it involves copying files from a Vista
installation AFAIK.
Google is your friend...
I know you can finagle things so as to get Windows Mail running on
Windows 7, but I don't think there's a way to make it the system
default mail client.
 
B

Bruce Hagen

Walt said:
Does anyone have a fix that will make Windows Mail the default mail
program in Win7? Not interested in Windows Live Mail. Thanks,
Walt


I have it in my Win7, but have not found a way to make it default.
 
B

Bob Henson

Some might say that's a good thing, they'll still fix bugs, still
release new versions every 6 weeks, and they'll stop adding fancy bells
and whistles that people go out of their way to disable ...
Hear, hear! The current versions is stable, and were it to have nothing
but security fixes from now on, that would be a major advantage.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK


I went for a medical and asked the doctor, "How do I stand?" He said,
"That's what puzzles me too!"
 
S

s|b

Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.
IMHO it doesn't need any new features and it will still be supported.
 
N

Nil

Please note that companies have stopped developing free email
clients - Even Thunderbird will not develop any new features.
Where did you hear that?
You will need to get used to Microsoft Outlook but that won't
solve your newsgroups problems.
He never mentioned Outlook, so why do you?
 
G

Good Guy

There were leaks of Mitch Baker's announcement of the changes, which
were interpreted by the gutter-blogs as "Thunderbird has been scrapped",
if you read around from here

http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

You'll see that's not true ...
This is from Mitchell Baker's blog

"Much of Mozilla’s leadership — including that of the Thunderbird team —
has come to the conclusion that on-going stability is the most important
thing, and that continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority
for Mozilla’s product efforts. (For more information about the path to
this conclusion, see the “Background Information” section below.) As a
result, the Thunderbird team has developed a plan that provides both
stability for Thunderbird’s current state and allows the Thunderbird
community to innovate if it chooses."

<http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/>

Mitchell Baker is the Chair of Mozilla Foundation (aka Lizar Wrangler
according to Wikipedia) so she should know better.

These are not leaks but real quotes from the blog. It is now up to the
independent developers to develop the product (i.e. add new features
should it be necessary) and distribute it presumably under a different
name otherwise there is likely to be a confusion if TB continues in
tandem with new incarnation by independent developers.

Hope this helps.


--
Good Guy
Website: http://mytaxsite.co.uk
Website: http://html-css.co.uk
Forums: http://mytaxsite.boardhost.com
Email: http://mytaxsite.co.uk/contact-us
 
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Andy Burns

Good Guy wrote:

[snippage]
These are not leaks but real quotes from the blog.
The point is that the memo (including a plea not to leak it) was leaked
on 6th July, before it was intended to be made public on the 9th. Worse,
the leaker put their on spin on the leak, not everyone agrees with their
doom and gloom.

http://pastebin.com/2HcKLzE2
It is now up to the
independent developers to develop the product (i.e. add new features
should it be necessary) and distribute it presumably under a different
name otherwise there is likely to be a confusion if TB continues in
tandem with new incarnation by independent developers.
3rd party developers can contribute patches, Mozilla will incorporate
them as they see fit, and then distribute the resulting versions.

People have always been able to distribute their own versions under
other names ...
 

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