Looking for an alternative to Outlook

[draggar]

My wife's laptop is running Office 2007 enterprise. We want to switch her to a new laptop (this was her old student laptop) but the the new laptop is running Windows XP Pro (not enterprise) so the same copy of Office won't work (I've tried this before on a different PC running XP pro).

I know I can use Open office for applications such as Word and Excel (which she sometimes uses) but I'm looking for an alternative for Outlook (we don't have the money to purchase a new copy of Office, even at $150 for the basic). I know there are many email clients out there but I need one that will allow multiple email accounts *and* accept the PST files form Outlook 2007.

Suggestions?

 

[Johnn]

http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

Import data from Outlook:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91687

 

[Gerry]

I use THUNDERBIRD (a Mozilla product)

Rated much more secure than Outlook.

I love it.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

 

[Johnn]

I use THUNDERBIRD (a Mozilla product)

Rated much more secure than Outlook.

I love it.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Ditto!

 

[Sonny Banks]

ThunderBird!

 

[draggar]

Thanx, I'll give that a try (thunderbird)

 

[Johnn]

Please send $50 to each of us for the consulation fees.

Paypal is fine as you seem to be a trusted member.

 

[Chuck]

I have looked at Thunderbird in the past but never downloaded it. I guess I'm going to have to give it a try too now....just send my paypal finders fees over to you guys, thanks.

 

[Johnn]

Escrow for the new guy. Split fees

 

[draggar]

*lol* Sorry, no one asked for consultation fees nor did I offer them.

On a side note, it seems to not want to import the PST files from Outlook. I even let Outlook 2000 (which is on this PC I just found out) set itself up but Thunderbird won't see the PST files or the address book.

 

[Johnn]

The fees is not mandatory. It is just shown your appreciation. The better the fees the bigger the appreciation.

 

[draggar]

Edit: It is not taking the PST files from Outlook 2007.

I'm wondering if there is any way to get Office 2007 Enterprise version to work on XP Pro (non-enterprise)?

 

[Bender]

Thunderbird is the way to go.

 

[draggar]

I like the interface but it is not accepting the PST files from Outlook 2007. That is the main roadblock. It says that they are not compatible.

 

[dotcomgiant]

Please import thebackup pst file to Outlook Express first and then have the backup from OE again and try to import at Thunderbird .

This should work ..

thanks

 

[draggar]

Actually, I got Office 2007 to work on the new PC.

Now for her to remember all of her passwords. :S

 

[Gerry]

Thunderbird is much, MUCH more secure for email.

I stopped using Outlook eons ago.

And I think you will be very happy with XP Pro.

 

[draggar]

I've been running XP pro for a long time (in fact, it was hard finding a PC last year with XP, I had to settle for XP Home but I have XP pro on my other machines) it's just that my wife's Dell D600 (or 610?) has been getting slower and slower so I'm letting her use my D620 now. The main issue is that nothing was accepting the PST files form Outlook 2007 and I didn't think the enterprise version that I have would work on an non-enterprise version of Windows, luckily I was wrong.

 

[longhorn]

I have been using Thunderbird for quite some time with no problems.