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for the brain trust: email clients?
Dear LJ brain trust,
Can anybody suggest an email client that runs on Windows 7 that satisfies all of the following requirements?
I'll also need something in the way of a calendar (send/receive meeting invitations and that sort of stuff), which is probably part of the email client but I'm ok with a separate solution there if one exists.
1 One big problem with Outlook 2007 is that it puts this huge bright-light-blue border around everything, which for someone in a reverse-video scheme is sort of like being out for a late-night walk far from city lights when somebody comes along and shines a full-power Coleman lantern in your eyes. Outlook 2010 does improve on this: you can make it a huge-bright-light-gray border instead. Near as I can tell, everything rooted in the Windows "Aero" theme is pure evil, and this is.
Thanks!
Can anybody suggest an email client that runs on Windows 7 that satisfies all of the following requirements?
- Can talk to an Exchange server. (I don't know what version; let me know if that matters.)
- Is not Outlook 2003 (no longer supported by the IT department), nor Outlook 2007 (supported but unworkable).1
- Allows the setting of font size for all views (headers, reading messages, composing messages, folder names...).
- Can be set to render all email in plain text, but allows some escape hatch for when you really do need the HTML/rich-text formatting to make sense of something (like when somebody formats a message with tables or different font colors or something).
- Either uses system colors (text, background) or supports this configuration directly.
- Supports saving to folders.
- Has some migration path for my ~5GB of email in Outlook PST files. (Since this is a one-time operation it can be a separate tool; there just has to be a way to get there.)
- Isn't from a known-suspicious source (it has to get past corporate IT).
I'll also need something in the way of a calendar (send/receive meeting invitations and that sort of stuff), which is probably part of the email client but I'm ok with a separate solution there if one exists.
1 One big problem with Outlook 2007 is that it puts this huge bright-light-blue border around everything, which for someone in a reverse-video scheme is sort of like being out for a late-night walk far from city lights when somebody comes along and shines a full-power Coleman lantern in your eyes. Outlook 2010 does improve on this: you can make it a huge-bright-light-gray border instead. Near as I can tell, everything rooted in the Windows "Aero" theme is pure evil, and this is.
Thanks!
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If so, does it meet your needs, or can it do so with appropriate CSS or GreaseMonkey hacks?
Exchange is a festering boil at the best of times, and I don't allow it in my company, so I don't actually know any of these things from first hand experience.
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I wish I had the option to not allow Exchange in my company. :-)