Any recommended mail readers for Windows 7 - I need 2 things

[nine9s]

Any recommended mail readers for Windows 7?

I would like one that:

1) would easily import my saved email from Windows Live Mail (that is where my saved important email is now);

2) Be easy to back up - where I KNOW where the back up is (for example, a normal computer folder, not some file where all messages are merged into one big file of data.) Ideally, I would like to be able to manually just copy the data-folder-files somewhere then if ever needed, just paste those saved files back to where the program stores messages. That is how I used to backup Outlook Express - so easy and I know where the back-up is (where I pasted it or a CD if I put it there, etc - none of this "user friendly" black hole stuff of today.) Thunderbird is supposed to be able to do this but I never could get it to do this and I messed with it a whole day (so no Thunderbird.)


Thanks for any help.

 

[readymix]

C\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\yourmailserver(f85\inbox\........

maybe you don't like WLM or you could'nt find the folder. if it's the latter, it's there^. I cut and paste the whole WLM folder, 50 MB for me, give or take. all acount data except passwords.

 

[ringtail]

Why don't you go back to Thunderbird and use this to backup:
MozBackup

First, with Thunderbird installed, go to Windows 7 Start button, and in the "Search programs and files" box type
thunderbird.exe -p
and hit enter. There's one blank space before the -p.

That should open up Thunderbird's box where you can either create a user profile with your name, or if it shows a "default" user profile, just rename the default to be your name.

Then when you run MozBackup, save that user profile that you just made.
It catches everything, email, add-ons, the whole shebang.

Later when you go to Restore a saved backup, you can either just restore Everything, or if you want, it lets you cherry pick which individual things to restore. Works great!