Outlook Express Is the Most Ridiculously Impossible Email Program to Attempt to Import Archives Into

[queerbychoice]

My files! My beautiful, beautiful email archives dating back ever since I moved out of my parents' house! My dearly beloved files whose lives have been threatened by this dreadful process of transporting them from one hard drive to another! I have been trying for days to restore them and now at long last - THEIR HEARTS BEAT ONCE MORE!!! I have successfully resurrected them from the grave even after they had lain dead and molding for days! They live!

My past has not been erased! I do have a history and the records to show that it happened! I think they are all here intact, every last one! I will just spend the next year rereading them all to check and to glory in the fact of their miraculous revival from near-death!

*clutches email archives to chest and hugs them for dear life*

Comments

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

I recommend Mulberry as an excellent e-mail prog...compatibility with pretty much everything, especially. I despise M$....yet I'm running XP, go figure.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

It's very easy to understand why you are running XP. Because the thing would be a horrible pain to uninstall!

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

True, true!
BTW, I like your new icon. You're prettier than I expected. =)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

What did you expect me to look like?

For some reason I expected you to have black hair, or at least very dark brown. I was very surprised to discover it was actually blonde.

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

A bit frumpy, actually. It's probably the glasses that made me think that. And with shoulder-length straight dark-brown hair. As it is, you're cute.

My hair isn't quite as blonde as it was when I was younger--the pic I used for this comment is from about a year ago (my mouth is full of marshmallows--sort of a "I wonder what I look like?" picture).

[seifaiden.livejournal.com]

I find it a lovely icon as well.

[alysbowie.livejournal.com]

Outlook express is truly evil.

That being said, I don't have any recommendations for email programs - my OS X has a lovely one, called "Mail" that works rather well.

[violin.livejournal.com]

I do a bit of that, also.

So, something that comes up from time to time is people criticizing e-mail because they fear it means we'll have no surviving historic record like the letters people used to write. Anytime I hear this I want to choke the person and point out that it's easier in terms of effort and space to store every e-mail you've ever written or recieved than it would be to save a comparable amount of paper letters.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yes, and they always argue that emails aren't as well-written as paper letters - well, whose fault is that??? WRITE BETTER ONES!

[summerrose.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm a friend of lacorneille. I work for my college's Office of Computer Services, and deal with all sorts of email clients, and I have to concur with the people who say that Outlook Express is horrid. We actually don't officially support it - it has so many problems, mainly related to being a path of virus infection for the poor Windows computers. There are a couple of alternatives that I could suggest, as well as programs(some of which are cheap or free) for exporting mail from OE. Are you using POP, IMAP, or both?

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I'm using POP.

[summerrose.livejournal.com]

mmkay. Is there any program you've used before that you really didn't like? I usually recommend the email client that comes with Mozilla - have you ever used it? It's full-featured, but pretty easy to use, seems to do everything nicely, and most people seem to like it once they try it. If you've tried it before and didn't like it, tell me and I'll suggest something else. Incidentally, if you used Netscape and the builtin mail client in that, believe me, the mail client in Mozilla is highly improved. Mozilla can be obtained from www.mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org).