1. Free Email Clients Like Outlook

EM Client is a free and handy email client software for your computer. It supports various calendars and it can be integrated easily to Skype. EM Client has inbuilt support for various email accounts and it lets you import your mails from Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird and some other email clients. Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features! Mozilla Thunderbird 52 is a free full-featured and secure email application and chat client that includes an RSS feed reader and newsgroups option. Manage as many email accounts as you want from one convenient location efficiently and with style, while Mozilla Thunderbird filters away the junk mail.

Sorry about this question because I know it is a matter of opinion - BUT I AM SO CONFUSED. I just did the free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 - and I must congratulate Microsoft on that upgrade. It only took a few hours and it went smoothly, perfectly and everything was intact at the end of the upgrade.

I like to use the latest compatible software, so I immediately tried to upgrade to the new Windows 10 mail app - and that DID NOT go smoothly (what a mess I created). Anyway, I managed to back it out - and as my Windows Live Mail (WLM) client from Windows 7 was still intact, after quite a few gyrations, I got all of my mail back into my WLM client (had lost a bunch in the Windows 10 Mail app conversion). So I am back searching for the best email client to use with Windows 10. Sorry about this question because I know it is a matter of opinion - BUT I AM SO CONFUSED. I just did the free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 - and I must congratulate Microsoft on that upgrade. It only took a few hours and it went smoothly, perfectly and everything was intact at the end of the upgrade.

I like to use the latest compatible software, so I immediately tried to upgrade to the new Windows 10 mail app - and that DID NOT go smoothly (what a mess I created). Anyway, I managed to back it out - and as my Windows Live Mail (WLM) client from Windows 7 was still intact, after quite a few gyrations, I got all of my mail back into my WLM client (had lost a bunch in the Windows 10 Mail app conversion). So I am back searching for the best email client to use with Windows 10. Team ZigZag- Sorry to be late in getting back to you.

I am/was all set to take your advise, but when I look at a lot of the conversations involving WLM, I get very worried. In my case, WLM (2012) was running very nicely (or so I thought) after my Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade. The upgrade went perfectly and the WLM client on my machine survived very nicely and was working perfectly (or so I thought until yesterday and last night).

This morning I found about 20 bad emails in my WLM Inbox that came back with a 'Message cannot be found' error when I clicked on the email entry. The problem associated with that is that 'every one' of the 'Message cannot be found' emails had already been received by me and I had either deleted them (in Deleted folder) or had filed them in one of my other Mail folders ('all 20 of them'). My machine had been re-started overnight (part of the Windows auto-fix downloades, I guess) - so that may have had something to do with it, but too early to tell. Back to the WLM problem, I am seeing a lot of comments about WLM not installing or working on Windows 10 and most disturbing is a note that Microsoft sent out saying that they were going to be making some changes shortly that would fix it so the WLM will no longer run in Windows 10 - and suggested that people begin moving their email to the new Windows 10 Mail app.

This makes me very nervous. I could probably handle the changes, but I have a new Christmas present laptop for my wife sitting in a corner waiting for resolution of this issue - and she would not do well with problems like this (like having to convert to a new Mail client). I don't know if the issue is different if you did a Windows 10 upgrade (no new WLM installs) versus installing WLM on a new system. If your have any other comments or insights, I would appreciate it.

I am also going to research and probably open up another question on the WLM community forum. Thanks for the detailed response and help. Ron in round rock RnS. Zigzag- If you are referring to your following comment: Since WLM is still supported and since you have data in it I would stay with WLM and when your account is moved to Preview upgrade WLM and configure it for IMAP 1) I didn't understand the Preview upgrade WLM reference - I don't know what that is - don't recall seeing it mentioned elsewhere (by Microsoft). OK, I am finally getting it, I think. It seems simple now (well, sort-of) - and I don't know why this couldn't have been made simpler in one article explaining all of the differences between these different email support apps.

Yes, there are many comparison articles, but none of them are really, really thorough. So let me see if I really got it as I think I do. First of all, I have read many articles AND ONLY ONE mentioned that you have to get a new email address for some of these services - like Outlook.com. Maybe that is so obvious that nobody thought it necessary to mention it, but it has really slowed down my understanding of the various email services (i.e.

Outlook.com being referred to as an email client really threw me off). Outlook - this appears to be a Microsoft Office product designed to be used with Microsoft mail servers, mainly in business areas and applications and not much use to home users.

Outlook.com - is a Web-based email product (the Hotmail follow-on/upgrade/etc) which you have to get a new email address for (although it looks like it supports several MS email domains) similar to Gmail or yahoo mail, and was originally designed (at least one place I read) to compete with Google's Gmail - and is very similar in operation to Gmail (yeah, I do have a Gmail account) - and I should have picked up its operation when it was referred to as the Hotmail follow-on. WLM - is an email client that can be used 'with any' email service provider, like Gmail, Outlook.com or in my case a Time Warner Cable (TWC) ISP email account. I suppose it is very similar to Thunderbird, eM Client Pegasus and a couple of dozen others. Most support POP and IMAP interfaces, as do most of the email service providers. So is the above fairly close to what is going on.

I think I mentioned that this is really a search for email support for my wife when we get her new Windows 10 laptop operational (and retire the Windows 7 laptop). So guess my next step (actually 2 steps) is: 1) Get my wife to decide what email service will work for her (she is adamantly against changing her email address) 2) Do some more research on the POP and IMAP interfaces By the way, I see Outlook.com (for instance, as I mentioned above) referred to as an email client - and is the main source of most of my confusion. It really isn't a client, is it - or the fact that it is actually the front end of the outlook.com back end makes it an app that people refer to it as a client. To me, a client is an app that runs locally in/on your computer and access email service providers - whereas I consider providers accessed via a browser as Webmail interfaces.

When I access my TWC email account via one of my browsers, it is IMPOSSIBLY SLOW AND FEATURLESS - making it impossible to be used in a Webmail mode. OK, I won't get started on that. I have some other comments and opinions, but I have gone on too long here. Still hoping for some feedback to see/know if I am on the right track. Ron in round rock RnS.

I'm also trying to figure out the best desktop email client to use that will be just as comparable as Vista Windows Mail (replaced OE, and does work in Windows 7 & 8 if you know how to enable it). I've been using it since I upgraded to Windows 7 in late 2009. I hated Windows Live Mail as it corrupted many of my folders and emails. It is so aggravating that as popular as OE and Windows Mail were, Microsoft feels the need to provide a less than adequate email client with each new OS upgrade. And why do they always have to change the file extension for emails?

With OE is was.dbx, Windows Mail is.eml, and Outlook is.msg so you can't open or import these emails between programs. I had installed Windows 10, for one day, when it was first released and when I couldn't figure out how to get Vista's Windows Mail to work (an article I found said all I had to do was copy the Msidcrl30.dll from Windows 7 to the system 32 folder), I restored Windows 7. After 5 months, I was hoping that by now someone would have found a way to get Vista's Windows Mail to work; unfortunately, I've yet to find anything new. I don't want my emails being stored on the web; I want them downloaded to my hard drive, and I want to be able to compose an email without using a web based program (Outlook.com). It was no big deal to me when Microsoft did away with Hotmail, and went to Outlook.com and POP3 & SMTP, I just set up my Hotmail account using the POP3 & SMTP. I guess Microsoft Office Outlook is my only option. I will not use anything relating to Google, and I tried Thunderbird once and didn't like it.

I just wanted to thank everybody for responding - your comments have helped. I have made a decision on my wife's email. It was enough of a challenge to get her moved from Windows 7 to Windows 10 that I am going to have to stick with the WLM 2012 with her new computer, for now. It was the only way to easily retain all of her emails, left intact with the same folder structure and operation.

Free Email Clients Like Outlook

Me, I am still on the fence. As I understand more about what is going on, I think I may want to do some experimenting with the IMAP protocol-configured mail program (I have never used an IMAP mail program). If anything, from my research, it seems that Microsoft's Outlook is one of the best around. It appears similar to WLM in appearance and operation, so I wouldn't have a big learning curve. Except the problem there is you have to pay for it.

On the other hand, one of the 3rd party mail programs sounds interesting (there are a lot out there, aren't there). I haven't ever steered outside Microsoft products before - until recently, if you consider Gmail and Chrome steering outside MS products. I have seen a lot of pretty good comments about Thunderbird, em Client, Pegasus, etc and it might do me good to get outside the Microsoft box. To be honest, I am looking for longevity - looking for a product I can stick with for 5-or-10 years, or something like that - so I don't have to relearn something every few years.

I also really hate switching products every few years, and have all your work go down the drain because of the incompatibility between the products. LIKE WHAT MICROSOFT 'MAY' HAVE DONE WITH PHOTO GALLERY - WHICH DOESN'T SEEM TO STILL BE AROUND WITH WINDOWS 10 - STILL INVESTIGATING - BUT THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF YEARS OF TAGGING THOUSANDS OF PICTURES MAY HAVE GONE DOWN THE DRAIN - I REALLY REALLY HATE THAT. Anyway, don't get me started on that - still looking into it.

Another for instance, it appears that WLM may not be long for this world - like WLM 2012 appears to be the end of the line there also and from what I have read, the Windows 10 Mail app is not a good replacement at this time. So maybe the problem is with 'free' products. Back to my longevity comment and the Pay-for comment on Microsoft Outlook - maybe paid is the way to go because the vendor is more likely to provide migrations paths and options to save their old mail in order to retain their paying clients.

Anyway, still thinking. Ron in round rock RnS. Imantei- Yes, I think I now understand that I can use IMAP or POP3 with Outlook. My comment about IMAP was that I have never used the IMAP protocol before and I thought it might be a good experience for me.

Have you or anyone had experience with using both IMAP and POP3, maybe at the same time, switching back and forth. For instance, does POP3 get its input 'ONLY' from the ISP's Inbox. Like, if I configured the ISP Inbox with a bunch of folders and I used IMAP - and I changed the interface back to POP3, would I only get the email from the Inbox downloaded into my machine. Most of the email control (keeping track of email downloaded, preventing duplicates, etc.) is controlled by the email client, isn't it. Or even leaving IMAP out of the picture, supposed I went onto my ISP and moved a bunch of email out of the Inbox, into a bunch of folders - and then logged in with my POP3 mail client - would the mail client even know about the messages in the folders or would just the messages in the ISP Inbox get downloaded. And yes, I am leaning towards Outlook, particularly right now because with the new laptop just purchased, I got a free 1-year subscription to Microsoft Office-365, which I think includes Outlook.

Don't know how much Outlook costs standalone, but I would have it for at least a year, free - and maybe that is a program that Microsoft with keep around instead of jacking around with all of their free email clients. Ron in round rock RnS.

RECOMMENDED: Windows 10 ships with a modern or universal mail client called Mail. The is one of the best free email clients out there for Windows operating system and it supports not just Microsoft account but also allows you add email accounts from other webmail services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail. While there is nothing wrong with the interface or features offered, the Mail doesn’t always work for most users. Users have been experiencing variety of issues with the Mail app right from day one of Windows 10’s release. Although most of the issues can be easily fixed by, some users are unable to use the app even after a reinstall. Windows Live Mail for Windows 10 If your experience is Windows 10 Mail app is not great and find the old Windows Live Mail was more useful, you will be glad to know that you can easily install and use Windows Live Mail in Windows 10 without any issues.

Install Windows Live Mail in Windows 10 Follow the given below directions to download, install and setup Windows Live Mail on Windows 10. Step 1: Click the web setup of Windows Live Essentials 12. The setup file is under 2 MB and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10. For your information, Windows Live Essentials 2012 is the latest version of the program and Microsoft has not updated the program since then. UPDATE: Microsoft has discontinued Windows Live Essentials program and is no longer officially available for download from Microsoft. So, we have now linked to the well-known Softpedia website from where you can safely download the Windows Live Mail installer.

Step 2: Double-click on the setup file to run it. Click Yes button when you see the User Account Control prompt. Step 3: When you see the following screen, click the second titled Choose the programs you want to install.

Clicking the first option will automatically install all programs included in Windows Live Essentials including Messenger, Movie Maker, Writer, Mail, Photo Gallery, OneDrive and Outlook Connector Pack. Since we are interested only in the Mail program, click Choose the programs you want to install. Step 4: You will see the following screen with all programs selected by default. Uncheck all programs except Mail and then click Install button to begin the installation. Once the Mail program is installed, you will see “Windows Live Essentials is installed” message. Step 5: After installing the Live Mail in Windows 10, you must install this update from Microsoft to continue using it on Windows 10 without issues.

Setup and configure Live Mail in Windows 10 Step 1: Type Live Mail in Start menu or taskbar search box and then press Enter key to launch Windows Live Mail. Step 2: The Add your email accounts will automatically launch. If not, click Accounts tab and then click Email as shown in the picture below to open the same. Step 3: Type in your email address and password that you want to add to Live Mail and then click Next button to add the account. If you want to manually configure server settings, please select the option titled Manually configure server settings box before clicking Next button. For popular services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail, you don’t need to manually configure server settings.

Click Yes button when you see the confirmation prompt. Step 4: Once the account is added, you will see “Your email account was added” message.

Live Mail might take some time to sync your account. And once syncing is done, you can use the Live Mail on your Windows 10 without any issues.

When I upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 I still had Windows Live Mail but I lost Windows Live Mail when MS performed an update of my Windows 10 (Windows 10 Home edition). I reinstalled the WLM as per the instructions above and it works great until I restart my computer.

Then Windows uninstalls WLM and when I click on the leftover icon I get a message that the program is not compatible with this version of Windows. How do I keep Windows from deleting it when restarting my computer?

Windows 10 mail is so poor no request for delivery or read receipts, glitching with marking sent e-mails as drafts so nobody understands if they were sent or not, etc. Did anyone try to click paper clip indicating that the message has an attachment in the list of E-mails? As soon as you point to that paper clip with a mouse, the paper clip disappears and trash basket symbol appears right near so if you click, your message is deleted. And it often being deleted permanently, not into basket!

This application can not be used where reliability is required. What are you doing?! You better do not do changes rather than doing it for the worse! The company I work for has to downgrade all new purchased computers to Windows 7.

Lubo says. I guess Microsoft hates or just does not care about their customers if force them use the stupid mail program built into Windows 10. WLM is 10 times better and has to a real moron if don’t admit that. Recently I start getting tons of junk emails and there is no way to mark them or filter them as spam. No option to do it!!!Wake up Microsoft!! It is 2017!!!

Outlook.com is same crap. All my messages receiving from my motion detection cameras go to junk mail and I cannot open them just because the program decided soWTF?!?!?!? I even don’t know is worse now-MS or Apple.

Fred Nerks says. For years I was using Windows Live Mail with the last 2012 for my 4 accounts; (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo and Videotron).but lately my Hotmail emails stopped to load into it!!!

So I was forced to start use also OUTLOOK MAIL which I hate!!! Because often when I am adapting and forwarding a message “THE MAIL” closes without a reason and my message end up in Draft folder – beside that it I cannot create Storage Folders!!!

Why is Microsoft blocking the Hotmail Messages in Windows Live Mail 2012????. Patricia Courtney says. I got an email today from saying: In a few weeks, we will be making some changes to our email services that might impact your @?outlook?com, @?hotmail, @?live, or @msn email account. Those changes will prevent your email from being delivered to the Windows Live Mail 2012 application you use. And email continues to advise me to use Mail app in Windows 10. I really hate the Mail app. I cannot see multiple accounts at the same time and drag and drop emails between them.

Also, other limitations vs.