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Win 7 & email

highside

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Posted September 23, 2009 at 5:16PM

With Win 7 in mind I opened a Hotmail account and imported my Windows Mail ISP account into it.
ie now have two addreses.
Have found that Hotmail is much to frilly and complicated when all I want is a basic email send and receive.
Had a look at gmail which looks much more like Windows mail- is gmail OK ?
Could I import my old ISP e address into it from Hotmail?
Only reason for original change was due to impending Win 7 installation
Thanks for any help.

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a member

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Posted September 23, 2009 at 7:08PM

why not just use windows mail.

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highside

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Posted September 23, 2009 at 7:38PM

Because Upgrade Advisor says that windows mail will not be included with Windows 7 and another package must be used.

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a member

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Posted September 23, 2009 at 8:47PM

I know it does not ship with win 7 but I am using it sucsessfully . you can copy the email folder complete from a fresh install of vista . over to win 7 .
It works a charm I am using it with the full rtm version of win7 .
look here: click here

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highside

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Posted September 23, 2009 at 9:46PM

Thanks for that will attempt it when I get 7.
In the meantime will have to try to get my ISP win mail back to windows mail.
Another thing about Hotmail it seems you have to keep resigning in for instance after doing a file clean up.

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Posted September 24, 2009 at 12:05AM

is an excellent (free) alternative to Windows Mail.

I use it (in Windows 7) for one of my mailboxes, and it works perfectly. It's fast, looks good, and is relatively gizmo-free, it just does what you want a mail client to do.

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Teaboy

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Posted September 24, 2009 at 5:27PM

Mozilla Thunderbird I'm sure is fine. But why not download windows live mail into W7 as you would have to do with MT?

Or am I missing something?

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highside

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Posted September 24, 2009 at 7:07PM

Dont like Live - too fussy too many other things popping up. I just want to go straight to an inbox in the simplest way just like standard windows mail,

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Teaboy

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Posted September 25, 2009 at 5:01PM

I was missing something!

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highside

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Posted September 25, 2009 at 5:04PM

Thanks all - plenty to go on.

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