Strange... maybe it's your system... WLM is extremely fast on my computer...
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Philip Seyfi, fs-studio.eu
"Regis St-Gelais" <meATmyhomeDOTcom> wrote in message
news:OCDcbhHxHHA.1168[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
[Quoted Text] >I gave a try to WLM last week and saw no real major improvements over OE.
> Yes, it has a look more compatible with vista but thats almost it.
>
> Anyway, thats not realy the reason of my post.
> I can live with the vista look (even if I don't like it, but its a
> personal taste and you know that the say about personal taste...)
>
> I have been using EO for many years mainly because it is light (mutch
> lighter than Outlook as least) and has all the features I need:
> - Multiple email accounts
> - Connect to hotmail (yes, I have a few old hotmail account that still
> work with EO :o)
> - News reader
>
> The main downside I found about WLM is the speed.
> I have a rather large number of emails stored localy on my computer and
> also large news groups (news.palmos.com for exemple has more then 100 000
> posts)
> Just switching from one email folder to another one is rather slow
> (specialy on laptops where the hard drives are slower)
> Its probably related to the fact that the emails are stored as individual
> files rather then grouped in databases.
>
> The second downside is the space between folders in the left panel.
> When you have many accounts and folders there, you always have to scroll
> down the panel.
> I don't see why there is that much space between each folders.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> Regis
>
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