The two obvious choices:
1. Windows Live Mail from http://download.live.com/wlmail
2. Thunderbird from http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/
Kees
Hey all, I hope you're all not freezing.
Anyway, I have a five year old machine so I'm thinking it's about time to upgrade even though this thing is no slouch. It's a P4 at 3.2 GHz with 2 Gs of ram and still kicks butt pretty good. I'm running XP Pro on it but I'm not sure my computer has too much to do with this problem.
Ten years ago, I bought a full legit copy of MS Office 2000. As you know, it wasn't cheap. I've been nursing that copy along for ten years but it looks like Windows 7 doesn't like it. So, on my laptop, I've been playing around with OpenOffice and I actually like it.
In Office, I use Word, Excel, and Outlook but I just noticed that OpenOffice doesn't have an email client. Or at least, not in the version I just downloaded. I can see myself dumping Office 2000 because I got my money's worth out of it and the word processor and spreadsheet program in OpenOffice seem like they will do me just fine.
So my question is, is there a specific email client that compliments or works with OpenOffice without having too much duplication of software?
I use Firefox for browsing when I use my U3 drives but I am pretty sure I'm going to stick with IE7.0 on my main machine. I just like IE and since I blocked IE8, I found IE7 to open and run a lot faster and I don't have any security issues with my particular setup. So I would need an email client that works well along side of IE and OpenOffice. I'm not certain that just picking any email client might not cause me to have a large duplication of similar software in two different directories. And I certainly don't want to pick something that might slow down due to conflicts.
So I'm hoping somebody has a little experience with a similar situation. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome, thanks.

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