?"Alan LeHun" wrote in message
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Lost Outlook express? But that must be a step forward? Noooo, that can't
be right.
Outlook Express hasn't existed for years. Windows Live Mail 2011 does a
passable job, although having to add s to quotes is rather annoying.

It fulfils my needs and under the hood is largely the same as Outlook
Express, it's just been given a lick of paint to bring it up to modern
interface standards.

To be perfectly frank, and it pains me to say this, the cloud is the
future I'm afraid.
I'm not convinced. They said the same 15 years ago, when Java was going to
be the future and by the year 2000 we'd all be using very cheap and
powerless PCs to access our desktops and files on someone's server halfway
across the world. Didn't happen, people prefer to have things on their own
hard drives.

These days there are more in the way of glorified bulletin boards (ie
Facebook), but things like email have and always have been designed to be
accessible wherever you are. Documents wise, nothing wrong with using
personal webspace for the non-important stuff. For the more important
things, there's not much wrong with backing up to pen drives or cheap
external hard drives.

Anyway, to the OP: WLMail 2011 will do pretty much everything you want,
although as the defaults look similar to Outlook Express to me I'm not sure
where you're getting the clutter thing from. If you click the View tab
you'll see options to turn off things you don't use.