Win XP and Outlook

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I recommend http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html - has
the last versions of lots of things that went that way.

Thanks for the link. I'll add it to my Favorites/Bookmarks. Too bad it
doesn't have a search function rather than make you click through the
page links manually searching for an old still-free version.

I had been using oldversion.com (not specifically for old still-free
versions) but noticed that too often a search there turned up zero hits.
This other site has some that oldversion does not.

There is [a free versus paid comparison], but it's somewhere
unexpected - under "order", I think.

Ah, there it is. I was there hunting for a comparison or, at least, a
list of what paid gives you more than free. I must've not scrolled down
on that page. Thanks.

Yep, 2 accounts max. I have 5 (well, 11 but the other 6 are reserved,
unused, and polled to keep them alive) and I am not using multiple
e-mail clients since the other more capable one(s) handling more
accounts would obviate the need to use OE Classic. This is the same
reason the em Client got immediately discarded when I was looking at
alternatives to Outlook (I have the old OL2003 which doesn't support TLS
that some e-mail providers now demand that the client issue a STARTTLS
command).

Considering you can get forum software for free, it's odd they don't
provide forums for peer support of their free version. However, that
would add more load on their site's bandwidth. But then I've seen some
authors/companies deliberately not provide forums because they don't
want to moderate them, have a slew a complaints or problems reported
there that other potential customers would see, or don't want to expend
the manpower to setup and maintain. Without active maintenance on
forums, I've seen them degenerate into worthless venues for support
(e.g., the IE7Pro forums are nothing but spam and the author NEVER
bothers to clean it up or kill accounts that are still doled out without
intervention).

If I had known about the spamification of outbound e-mails using OE
Classic, I wouldn't have even put it on my list of candidates.
EssentialPIM does this too but, at least, you can delete their spam sig
before sending. I don't know if OE Classic lets you remove their spam
sig so the recipient won't see it. Typically this spamification is done
after the send operation so you cannot remove it. Rather than
proactively advertise their product, they reactively rely on word of
mouth along with spamming via e-mail. Guess they don't care that their
freeloaders could get flagged as spam sources in the public blacklists
(Spamhaus, SpamCop, SORBS, etc).

I had a brief look (thinking about a friend who was very used to OE),
but decided it wasn't for us.

I didn't even get past putting it on a candidate list for trialing with
others. When I read there was a limit on the number of accounts
(regardless of whether it was 2, 4, or whatever), it got scratched from
the list.