Re: Changing e-mail programs.

["Yo Intl. YK" rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 3:01 Uhr +1000 15.06.2002, Michael Edwards wrote:
>  I would love to change; but there are a couple of obstacles. I don't know
>the alternatives, and which ones are good, and which ones might be just as
>bad.

Rule of the thumb: Any program is better than Outlook Express.
Well-known ones are Eudora, The Bat, or Pegasus.

>   The other thing is that I have a huge amount of e-mail in the current
>format, and I don't know how to convert the format, and don't know whether the
>converted files would be reliable, without information loss, and so on.

That should not be a problem. Basically, e-mail is plain text. In the worst
case, can you not send your whole Inbox to yourself once again?




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