OE/Eudora/Mozilla
I'm over on the new machine. Well sort of. The thing sat in the dining room for weeks as the Puter Ho got it all loaded up with everything I need and desire. The problem is we cannot get my email to work. It will work, but we can't import all the stuff from my old drive. I've used Outlook Express for some time and I know it is a piece of crap, but like an unhappy marriage, one tends to stay just because it's easier that way.
At this point, we simply put my old drive in with the new and I'm still booting off the old drive so I can access all my email accounts and the various folders created in OE over time. The old drive is loaded up with crap and I am very unhappy with the situation. The Puter Ho tried everything, ran an OE backup he found, but nothing worked. He uses Mozilla Mail and likes it. He also runs Linux, which obviously has kick ass screensavers and is smooth, but I also sit and listen to him grumble as he tries to get software to work on it.
I'm not ready for Linux. Microsoft still has me in their noose, but OE is about to go. I run Windows 2000 and have absolutely no desire to change that. It's the only stable Windows platform I've used. I'm looking and it seems I'll go with either Eudora or Mozilla Mail. It will mean a lot of cutting and pasting to carry everything along, but hopefully, I'll end up with something I can live with. And I'll be reducing my dependence on Microsoft, which is always a good thing.
As it is, I'm mostly all new. I'm faster, smarter, and better all around. I even got a new case, though not the black one or the blue neon water cooled one (Actually I'm not that fast) I wished for. My CDROM will open even if there isn't a disc in it. :)
If anyone reads this and has suggestions for a new mail client, please tell me. I'm open to all suggestions. And, honestly, if you know a way to get OE to import everything, let me know that too. I'm lazy. I hate trudging through a 40GB swamp of .dlls, etc.
I'll be right here, slowing tranferring data, dreaming that someday I get to drive in the fast lane.
Comments
It's still Microsoft, but I've been married to my freebie Hotmail account for years. Recently I've been considering an upgrade so I can actually receive and send larger files. The relationship has been rocky, and Hotmail has thrown some junk at me. All in all, it's a happy union and I probably won't be moving anywhere else anytime soon.
Posted by: Texas T-Bone | August 25, 2003 4:23 PM
Oh, and we bought a new Puter not too long ago. Has a new operating system compared to what we were used to, so it's been a transition. Still has that new computer smell, though.
Posted by: Texas T-Bone | August 25, 2003 4:24 PM