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My main rig is an old Windows 7 machine using Microsoft's Windows Live Mail for email. I am going to switch to Windows 10 and was wondering if I should use MS's mail that is built in or something like Thunderbird? Live mail is abandoned so I figure I should use something new (also it doesn't work with gmail anymore).

Any ideas?
 
I would recommend trying Thunderbird unless your needs for email storage are massive. Thunderbird has problems when the total emails are around 60,000 for an account.

Windows 10 Mail has two issues. First, a lot of mail won't be readable because W10 Mail doesn't do HTML decoding correctly. Second, it is scheduled to be replaced by a new webapp Outlook which is even worse than the Windows 10 Mail. MS decided to surprise me with the upgrade and I removed it fast. Note that the new Outlook will store all the mail downloaded from any provider on MS's servers which may not be the behavior you want.
 
Since the forced upgrade I'm uninstalling this new (ad-ridden) outlook and replacing it with Thunderbird.
I'm not so happy with Thunderbird regarding performance and UX but it's better than what MS calls a mail client.
I'm also thinking of switching to a flavor of Linux as I don't like where MS is going with Windows either and just need to find a distribution that matches the user experience of W10 or something similarly convenient to use
 
krebizfan said:
I would recommend trying Thunderbird unless your needs for email storage are massive. Thunderbird has problems when the total emails are around 60,000 for an account.

Windows 10 Mail has two issues. First, a lot of mail won't be readable because W10 Mail doesn't do HTML decoding correctly. Second, it is scheduled to be replaced by a new webapp Outlook which is even worse than the Windows 10 Mail. MS decided to surprise me with the upgrade and I removed it fast. Note that the new Outlook will store all the mail downloaded from any provider on MS's servers which may not be the behavior you want.
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What happens at 60K emails?
 
Unknown_K said:
My main rig is an old Windows 7 machine using Microsoft's Windows Live Mail for email. I am going to switch to Windows 10 and was wondering if I should use MS's mail that is built in or something like Thunderbird? Live mail is abandoned so I figure I should use something new (also it doesn't work with gmail anymore).

Any ideas?
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I think the Windows 10 Mail built-in app is simple and integrates well with Windows 10 features. It's a good choice for basic email needs.
 
I'm using office 365 outlook, is there a difference between it and the Windows Outlook app? Asking because I have a massive email database dating from the beginning of the century, certainly way over 60k messages as I hardly delete anything but obvious spam.
 
Yes. Very different. Outlook 365 stores the email locally. Outlook for Windows is a progressive web app that does not function offline. I haven't used Outlook for Windows long enough to check its properties with large email databases but it was very slow at doing anything so I doubt giving more emails would make it better.
 
Fwiw, I'm using Outlook 2010 which is part of MS Office 2010, and it's perfectly fine for my needs.
 
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