From: bob on
In article <hh1at9022qm(a)news3.newsguy.com>, DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net
says...
>
> From: "bob" <nottooslow42(a)yahoo.com>
>
> | In article <7p1tgpF519U1(a)mid.individual.net>, MikeE(a)ster.invalid says...
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> >> POKO wrote:
> >> > Santa is putting a Dell Windows7 desktop under my semi-literate computer
> >> > user brother's christmas tree. He uses Outlook on his XP box and loves
> >> > it as he posts a lot of mail (newslettters, etc). Any recommendations on
> >> > a good client? Sorry..saw something here a while ago but didn't clue in,
>
> >> Some people misspeak when they say Outlook.
>
> >> Outlook OL is a mapi messaging client for MS Office suite. OL is not
> >> Outlook Express OE which is not a mapi client and does both mail and
> >> news. Most people who use 'some kind of' Outlook are using OE not OL.
> >> They are very different; and one would 'replace' OL differently than
> >> one would replace OE.
>
> | Mike,
>
> | That is not quite correct. OL is also a POP client. I've had various
> | versions of OL installed on my XP box since XP was released and only
> | used it as a POP client for email.
>
> | Bob
>
> You are both right. However, MAPI doesn't have anything to do with a POP or IMAP email
> client iot is a message programming interface like VIM.

David,

You are correct. I must have been having a Christmas-induced brain cramp
:-)

Bob