BUDDY36 Loc: Tennessee

I have two email sites on my P.C. and I am going to replace the one that is giving me a load of trouble namely: Incrediblemail.
I like the site because I can save in the style box, loads and loads of pictures, cartoons and such and then send them along with an email by droping them into the subject line. That is perhaps the best feature. The other site I have is Outlook Express that comes standard with most P.C.'s. I use that for Prayer Chains through our church and want to keep that one for that puprose only!
Does anyone here know of a different but good site to download for email? I had gotten a few suggestions from other back in Nov 2011 but did not take advandage at that time. HELP!
Buddy 36

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

I use Outlook (not Outlook Express) for my main email account but two others that are pretty good are hotmail and gmail. I've heard that Yahoo is good but I have no personal experience with Yahoo.

BUDDY36 Loc: Tennessee

Thank you Pepper, very much.
Buddy 36

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Buddy, you need to understand the difference between an email CLIENT program, like Outlook or Outlook Express, and a network or internet-based email PROVIDER, like Hotmail or Gmail or Yahoo Mail or similar places. In most cases, network providers allow you to use your browser to read, compose, and send mail. The mail providers have varying limits and/or restrictions on attachment sizes, etc.

Outlook and its younger, free brother Outlook Express are email CLIENTS that you have to connect, if you will, with a network based email service, unless you're on an internal network that has it's own internal mail server. This is common in a corporate setting - the corporation has it's own mail server, and all employees connect to it, very often with Outlook.

For example, my main actual email address is with a network based outfit called NetAddress - I can read my mail by opening a browser page on the netaddress.com site and logging in, or I can put the necessary technical parameters in to my Outlook program down here on the PC, and then when I open Outlook, it logs me into the NetAddress account and downloads my mail messages.

Most network based services will have the particulars that you need to plug into Outlook or any other locally-based Client program, that will let you go to the internet and collect your mail. They are often called "IMAP" or "POP3" settings.

IncrediMail is, if I remember, an email CLIENT program. They may also offer a network based service as well, it's been several years since I played around with IncrediMail.

Look at something like GMAIL from Google. It's free and has few restrictions.

Oh, by the way, virtually all email clients let you drag and drop attachments on the subject line of an email message, so that's not any big deal.

BUDDY36 Loc: Tennessee

JimH...What I mean by droping a picture or item into the subject matter is that I can take a picture( that is saved alongside of the email in a style box) of a dog, car, funny chartcher and etc and even go back into one of my files and pull out a picture of a memebr of the family and drop in along side or in between a write on the e-mail. This I can not do with Outlook...To do that with Outlook it would have to be an attachment that you would have to insert below your subject line that you are sending. I can also resize my pictures on the email screen by pulling the corners over up or down in Incredimail. That is what I would not have with any other, I believe. However I can do without it too. What I am getting with Incredimail is error after error more and more frequently.
So I think it is best to have at least two different e-mail sites.
Buddy 36

colo43 Loc: Eastern Plains of Colorado

I guess you had upgraded as well, just like i had and i bet many others.
From what i can see, we are now using beta until they work the bugs out.
I've contacted them 3 times so far with run time errors.
hopefully it will be fixed with a patch or upgrade. Just hang in there for a while longer.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Try g-Mail #1 IMHO, at least since Eudora went away, Hotmail #2, Yahoo constant problems on my wife's computer, Netzero also good, I also catagorize by what goes to which e-mail account. Bob.

Uriah

You have to use copy/paste with outlook to insert in the body of an email, otherwise insert will just attach the file
HTH

Gidgette Loc: Boerne,Texas

I've been using IncrediMail 2 since the 90's, no trouble. I upgrade whenever they have a new one.

SavvyGal13 Loc: Colorado

gMail hands down in my opinion. Gives you lots of storage also. You can keep "conversations" together so if you're going back and forth with someone those will be kept as one --- very handy.

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

Hotmail.com is another for you to consider, they are quite good.

grassroots

Hi Buddy,
I have 3 email addresses through live.com. using live mail which is a free download through msn or windows. You can acess all your email accounts in one spot.
Also you can upload any size photos using an album which will show high res for a period of time (30days). You might check this out to see if it will work for you.

regards

PhotoGeezer Loc: North East Ohio

I have gmail also and find it meets all my needs and has plenty of storage and options to group together my friends so that I can email funny dog pictures to my dog loving friends with just one click.

I recommend it highly.

English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL

Like the cool bunny (JimH) I am a bit confused at what you are looking for. Are you looking for a new e-mail address and webmail or at a client or a service that offers both?

Client: outlook any version
E-Mail: <name>@whatever.whatever

Client: Thunderbird come to mind but there many others ...
E-Mail: Since you mention picture, most have a size limitation so you may want to look at this as a deciding option. Many offer 'free' E-mail but these have severe limitations (including g-mail - unless tied to your own server).

twowindsbear

Yahoo has worked really well for me for several years. However, sending several photos from Picasa with Gmail was super simple. I have HotMail at work and MUCH prefer Yahoo.