Re: Mail serve

On 4/21/2025 12:40 PM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:17:36 -0500,
   Mark J cleary <mcleary08@comcast.net> wrote:

  I am an old-school Thunderbird user still. It allows me access
  to Eternal Sept to read this newsgroup. Not even sure if news
  groups are even used anymore we seem to be a bunch of crazy old
  cyclist.
>
  Thunderbird is good but slow and I would possible like to go to
  Outlook but it will cost $70 a year. What are you all using for
  your email program and getting the newsgroup. Pretty sure
  Andrew is doing what I do but maybe not for all email.

 I think zencycle is probably right that you can't use Outlook for
newsgroups.  I do use it for pretty much all my e-mail, though I
still use PINE on some of my shell accounts as convenient.
 For news, I am old school, using mainly slrn on my primary shell
account with panix.   From time to time I'll look in with PhoNews
on my Samsung Android phone, but that's rare.
 

I need the paid version of Outlook because I use a POP/3 setting. This allows me to check email on all my devices but they remain as shown unread on the any device I have not check my email on. I like that setting because I look at email on my iphone but then I like to check it again on the laptop. Thunderbird does work fine really for email I just think outlook would be more user friendly. It is not slow but seems when retrieving mail to at times not be super fast about it. I don't want to pay the $70. because really although not expensive I don't want to give in to little things as they add up if you keep that mentality.
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Deacon Mark