wkearney99
Senior Member
Note, I specifically called out Windows Live Mail, and not the included Mail client with Windows 10.
I despise the whole Metro tiled look nonsense, and Windows 10 window-treatment specifically. There's a lot to like about 10, but their departure from traditional GUI constructs is ugly and generally tends to make things more difficult to use, for me anyway. I'd take the underpinnings of 10 if they'd just bring back the classic UI (and I'm not talking about the Start menu, but actual window decorations and such). Or at least make it optional, none of the tweak schemes can overcome what they've wrecked behind-the-scenes. But that's a whole other conversation, unrelated to e-mail.
One other option to consider, and one I used to have set up, is to run your own internal mail server. Then use tools like fetchmail to pull mail from all of your accounts. I got out of the habit of doing this when we moved and I've not yet set that server back up again. The advantage there was I had my own local copy of all the mail should there be any problem with the servers or connection. This mattered more in the days when server mailbox sizes were much more restricted than today.
For me the upside to using an IMAP client is not having to put up with all the sidebar advertising and tracking they inflict upon you when using a browser-based interface. I can use the browser, when necessary, but greatly prefer not having to do so.
I despise the whole Metro tiled look nonsense, and Windows 10 window-treatment specifically. There's a lot to like about 10, but their departure from traditional GUI constructs is ugly and generally tends to make things more difficult to use, for me anyway. I'd take the underpinnings of 10 if they'd just bring back the classic UI (and I'm not talking about the Start menu, but actual window decorations and such). Or at least make it optional, none of the tweak schemes can overcome what they've wrecked behind-the-scenes. But that's a whole other conversation, unrelated to e-mail.
One other option to consider, and one I used to have set up, is to run your own internal mail server. Then use tools like fetchmail to pull mail from all of your accounts. I got out of the habit of doing this when we moved and I've not yet set that server back up again. The advantage there was I had my own local copy of all the mail should there be any problem with the servers or connection. This mattered more in the days when server mailbox sizes were much more restricted than today.
For me the upside to using an IMAP client is not having to put up with all the sidebar advertising and tracking they inflict upon you when using a browser-based interface. I can use the browser, when necessary, but greatly prefer not having to do so.