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   Kerr-Mudd, John to R.Wieser   
   Re: what are the email programs that are   
   03 May 23 10:34:54   
   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Wed, 3 May 2023 10:47:17 +0200   
   "R.Wieser"  wrote:   
      
   > Hello all,   
   >   
   > My internet provider just send me a email that they are going to pull a   
   > google, and will switch off unencrypted connections to their mail servers at   
   > the end of this month.   
   >   
   > My current email program is Outlook Express 6 which uses a POP3 connection   
   Wow!   
   > and have it set to plain-text only.  Although the "outlook express 6" part   
   > likely needs to change (it doen't support nowerdays SSL) I would like to   
   > keep the other two (POP3, plain  text).   
   >   
   > Does anyone have any suggestions ?   Reminder : it needs to run under XP.   
   >   
   Not really, I get my mail from Hotmail (still! - the url redirects to MS's   
   "Outlook" web page), but that's very slow to load these days. (I signed up   
   for it when it just used HTML!)   
      
      
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