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So my old email program let me down big time. Refused to start one day. So I upgraded to a newer version and that then lost half my emails. It's taken a lot of work to recover all the important ones I need so time for a re think and a new email program with some very specific requirements:
Must be free, and be available for windoze and linux.
No 1 rerquirement (which was the major failing with the old one) is that is must store all emails in an open format (e.g .eml?) as individual files so I am not locked into one email program and can easily migrate to a different one in the future.
Must be able to handle multiple email accounts (3 business and 2 private email accounts) all on the same log in. All emails from all sources landing in the inbox, with some way to differentiate them. (old program had an "account" column to say which email account they were from, and could set rules to highlight them in different colours)
Likewise when composing an email you must be able to select which account you are sending the email from.
Must be able to import my address book e.g from a standard format like CSV.
Must be known to be reliable.
Must have an option to just "look" at the server (the old program called that advanced account access) so you can just have a look and see what is there and choose to download them or just leave them on the server for later.
Must have decent user or author support (another major failing with the old one, when you start looking a LOT of people have the same problem but no solutions offered)
Must be free, and be available for windoze and linux.
No 1 rerquirement (which was the major failing with the old one) is that is must store all emails in an open format (e.g .eml?) as individual files so I am not locked into one email program and can easily migrate to a different one in the future.
Must be able to handle multiple email accounts (3 business and 2 private email accounts) all on the same log in. All emails from all sources landing in the inbox, with some way to differentiate them. (old program had an "account" column to say which email account they were from, and could set rules to highlight them in different colours)
Likewise when composing an email you must be able to select which account you are sending the email from.
Must be able to import my address book e.g from a standard format like CSV.
Must be known to be reliable.
Must have an option to just "look" at the server (the old program called that advanced account access) so you can just have a look and see what is there and choose to download them or just leave them on the server for later.
Must have decent user or author support (another major failing with the old one, when you start looking a LOT of people have the same problem but no solutions offered)