Replacement for Outlook/Outlook Express needed

cindyhove

Hi. Having installed office 2003 on my sons laptop it appears that I have used it as many times as I am allowed to!
I can't afford the 2007 one, so am looking for a free version of something that will work like outlook express to handle his emails etc.
I have downloaded Openoffice for the wp applications etc, but am stuck for the emails!
Any ponters please?? Needed urgently as possible!
Thanks in advance for any help.

Browntoa

this will do the honours

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/

cindyhove

Thanks for that.
I have downloaded the program, but have obviously done something wrong in the settings as I cant get it send/receive emails.
Does anyone know the correct settings I need to use for a sky.com email address?? I thought I had done it right, but........

crox

Thunderbird is a great bit of software, I switched to it years ago, bare in mind though that mozilla have decided (and in a quick glance I can't see anything to suggest a change of mind) that as a desktop application it doesn't fit in with there web-centric view of the world and are planning to cut it a drift as a comunity product or some such thing and therefore might not see much development in the future, it has always played 2nd fiddle to firefox as it is.

espresso

cindyhove wrote: »

Thanks for that.
I have downloaded the program, but have obviously done something wrong in the settings as I cant get it send/receive emails.
Does anyone know the correct settings I need to use for a sky.com email address?? I thought I had done it right, but........

Firewall?

Incoming: pop.sky.com
Outgoing: smtp.sky.com

cindyhove

Thanks. Now done.
I now need a program that will open powerpoint items. Is there one?

Browntoa

http://download.openoffice.org/

the powerpoint part is called:-

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