i was not sure where to put this topic but it involves outlook express so i figured this might be the place.
here are the issues i am trying to figure out.
my father, who is near 70 has been using outlook express probably over a decade. i want to migrate him from outlook express to an online service. since he is older they do a lot more traveling so he still wants to access his email from time to time.
problem 1: he is very much set in his ways. so i need something that looks as close to outlook as possible. it cant be gmail or anything most people would normally suggest because that is too different from outlook express. hotmail will soon be transforming into the new ui of outlook.com which would not go over well with him.
so far in my extensive research the two closest i have found were zoho or smampi. i dont know too much about them or how reliable they are. is there anything else out there that i am not aware of? i've looked and looked but so far nothing else i have found really resembles outlook express compared to these two.
problem 2: how to migrate all his old emails and folders from outlook express to whatever new email service is chosen? is there any simple solution? he has many files and folders spanning years that he wants to keep.
problem 3: he has a small business site and his email is through networksolutions. looking at his settings in outlook express shows me the port being used is 2525. however, when i investigated zoho and smampi, they allow for port 587 or 465. is there a way to use one of these ports instead of 2525?
here are the issues i am trying to figure out.
my father, who is near 70 has been using outlook express probably over a decade. i want to migrate him from outlook express to an online service. since he is older they do a lot more traveling so he still wants to access his email from time to time.
problem 1: he is very much set in his ways. so i need something that looks as close to outlook as possible. it cant be gmail or anything most people would normally suggest because that is too different from outlook express. hotmail will soon be transforming into the new ui of outlook.com which would not go over well with him.
so far in my extensive research the two closest i have found were zoho or smampi. i dont know too much about them or how reliable they are. is there anything else out there that i am not aware of? i've looked and looked but so far nothing else i have found really resembles outlook express compared to these two.
problem 2: how to migrate all his old emails and folders from outlook express to whatever new email service is chosen? is there any simple solution? he has many files and folders spanning years that he wants to keep.
problem 3: he has a small business site and his email is through networksolutions. looking at his settings in outlook express shows me the port being used is 2525. however, when i investigated zoho and smampi, they allow for port 587 or 465. is there a way to use one of these ports instead of 2525?