Re: Mail serve

Mark J cleary wrote:

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.

You don't need Outlook, paid or free for POP.
I have a Yahoo account, and I think it supports POP, and I know that my primary mail provider (paid for) does support POP.  I've never paid attention to Microsoft's free offerings, but I do connect to Microsoft servers with multiple work accounts, and I have no problem with POP connections.
In my working setups, I make use of several computers (as well as Thunderbird profiles), and I have most of those set up to do IMAP. That also applies to my phone.
However, on my primary setups (Seamonkey, as noted separately) for both my work mail and my personal mail, I have those configured for POP, as they match my work flows.
I like POP because it works well as a permanent repository of mail, and I have some mail that goes back as far as the mid-to-late 90's in my archives. What I do with my POP accounts is that I set the mail retention settings so that messages are kept for 2 weeks after download (rather than the default setting of immediate deletion).  Thus, for all the IMAP connections (or for that matter, web access), I can see the last 2 weeks of inbound mail, which is what I need or want to see from a secondary setup.  For outbound mail, if I send something from a secondary, if the message is something I want to keep, I simply move the copy from the Sent folder to the Inbox, where my next POP connection will download, and I can subsequently file.
In Seamonkey and Thunderbird, it is possible to tweak settings to put copies of sent messages in the Inbox rather than the Sent folder, but that's enough effort (and need infrequently enough) that it's easier just to move a message from Sent to the Inbox.
Smith