# Email programs for Windows 11 - what do you use? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654 "2026-07-14T00:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/21 "2026-07-14T23:18:28Z")
That’s my take too, although my personal professional IT experiences are a mere rounding error on yours. A couple years ago my Surface bricked itself one day. So I bought a new one, fired it up, provided my MSFT login credentials and a few minutes later I had my entire system configured as a clone of the old one and my hard drive repopulated w links to all my cloud-stored files. Which over the next couple-few hours all downloaded and became local files. The only manual step was typing my login info. It just works. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/22 "2026-07-14T23:33:41Z")
Some days I miss Netscape Navigator. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/23 "2026-07-14T23:37:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And that ladies and gentlemen, is what constitutes a ringing endorsement here in the enshittified year 2026. With email it isn’t so much enshitification (though that has happened), but rather the whole GUIness of it all. I was happy with `comp`, `scan`, `inc`, `show`, and friends from `mh`. So simple, so fast, and so versatile. The insistence of email being more than just text put an end to that, though. I’m complaining about feature creep, I guess the great uncle of enshitification. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/24 "2026-07-14T23:38:31Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Some days I miss Netscape Navigator. I’m not 100% sure, but I think that developed into Thunderbird, so you might still have some code fragments fom Navigator in a modern app. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/25 "2026-07-14T23:56:22Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I’m not 100% sure, but I think that developed into Thunderbird, so you might still have some code fragments fom Navigator in a modern app. Former Netscape personnel developed Mozilla (which I used as a former Netscape devotee), and then Mozilla over time turned into Firefox, and eventually the Firefox people developed Thunderbird. (I was one of the earliest users of Thunderbird.) But it’s not like there is a direct line between the Netscape mail client and Thunderbird, and they are dramatically different products. Code fragments, sure, the same way my car runs on ancient marine sea life that decomposed and over many years turned into crude oil. But you’re not going to actually find prehistoric sea monkeys anywhere in my car. My understanding is that both Firefox and Thunderbird are something of a “Ship of Theseus” situation, where over time bits of code were replaced until at this point you probably won’t find much of the original Netscape code left anywhere, or at least not a significant amount of it. Then again, Netscape introduced things like JavaScript and FRAME tags which are present all over the web (and web-based applications), so in a way, bits of “Netscape code” are in just about everything. Probably Outlook as well. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654/26 "2026-07-15T17:54:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And when your residence is flooded or swept away or burns down? No problem at all. Even before storage in the could became routine, one of my copies has been kept in a knapsack that’s always with me. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Clouds are awesome 99.999999% backups. Anything you or I could replicate is amatuer hour by comparison. > > But as you say, there’s no single right answer. Well, “Amateur Hour” worked fine before there even was “the cloud”; That hasn’t changed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-programs-for-windows-11-what-do-you-use/1031654.md?page=1)