Starting to deal with different Email Clients like I did today always ends up in feeling not really satisfied with even one of them. Personally I more like the easier one which do not offer all these stars and glitter some of the highend versions do. I want do write and receive emails, quickly and easy … and not creating art or something like this.

So I for years I remained with Outlook Express as my central email store. Not because I liked it that much though. It was most for the reason that it was absolutely easy to synchronize between different computers by just plainly copying the files.

Unfortunately Microsoft decided to discontinue it in actual Windows Versions and even I neglected that decision for a while I guess it’s now about time to move on looking for something new.

So today I gave all the major and well email clients a go …. just to see that all of them have issues. If it wouldn’t be such a stupid  waste of server space, I generally would go and remain with embedded IMAP folders in future. But on my own server the space is too valuable and handing my personal emails over to some services like Gmail or MobilMe is a real big NoGo for me.

After all kind of idea and the remaining feeling about I have just wasted time, I ended up this evening with having all emails now in Windows Mail. My point is that with an easy copy all settings, accounts and messages are copied at once and with it importing and transfering my emails and settings was just the easiest way to go. But I do already know about that wasn’t the last word spoken about!