In article , Ken Springer
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Which makes me ponder, I wonder how many W10 users are using the Windows
Mail App, and don't know they are using a client.

close to zero.

Most e-mail clients these days have a database of hundreds of e-mail
providers to know how to configure to use them. Most times, you just
enter your e-mail address and the domain for it gets used to
auto-configure the e-mail client.

Why would they need a database? Wouldn't it be possible to just start
with the user's email address, poll the appropriate server for settings,
and go from there?

they need a database because there is no standard configuration, plus
such a database is always going to be outdated as new providers appear
and old ones go away.

other than the major providers, such as gmail, yahoo, etc., the
configuration is going to vary, sometimes a lot.




For me, the books I've wanted never seem available as an e-book. I
can't almost guarantee the issue is the age of the book. Virtually no
demand to convert them.

very old books won't unless they're classics, but anything recent will.

Besides, I like to make notes and highlight things in books,
and libraries frown on that. LOL

Well, they're not your books.

I know. :-) In my case, many of the old books are downloadable as a
PDF, which is what I read. But no one seems to go through the PDF to
check for very obvious errors. :-(

yep, they scan it, which makes for a not very good pdf.