OE Classic 2.7 released
- There are still a number of (small) annoying bugs in OE Classic. Even in v2.7.
- News regarding OEC can also be followed on Twitter & Facebook:
https://twitter.com/infobytehr
https://www.facebook.com/oeclassic
- A next version will support multiple languages (incl. e.g. dutch). See Twitter & Facebook (above).
- Still no news when OEC will support IMAP. The latest bit of news was that the OEC guys "were working on it".
- Users of the "paid for" version ($ 30) of OEC can now help to translate the program in their own (non english) language. As time goes by more and more screens in the program will be prepared for translation in future versions. The latest BETA version is v2.8.
- For more info : https://www.oeclassic.com/download
- The user of the latest BETA version now has the choice of 6 languages (incl. english). More languages will become available in the future.
- The latest OEC Beta version (see previous post) was released on january 15, (2018).
- Fiddling with the translated version(s) of OEC Beta exposed a number of bugs in the OEC program code. (I LOVE this kind of work). No information available on when OEC v2.80 will be (officially) released. I assume it depends on how fast the work on the translations progresses.
- Still no news on when OEC will support IMAP.
- OEC supports/uses TLS v1.0, v1.1, and v1.2 for a secure connection with email servers. And that's a problem for users of Windows XP and Server 2003 and older. These Operating Systems only support TLS v1.0. It makes the connection with the email servers (a little) less secure/safe for XP and Server 2003 users.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaushal/2011/10/02/support-for-ssltls-protocols-on-windows/
- Outlook Express Classic v2.8 has been released.
- The developers have made many code changes inside OEC in preparation for IMAP. But these don't show up yet because they are not done yet with all the changes needed for IMAP and the testing of IMAP.
- When TLS 1.3 is officially released then OEC also will support that version of TLS. Then it seems that MS will stop to support TLS 1.0 (and TLS 1.1. ???) anymore.
- Currently OEC supports 16 languages (incl. english). Volunteers (with the "paid for" version of OEC) who want to add an additional language are still welcome.
Source: the Facebook page of OEC. (available on the homepage of OEC)
- The latest OE Classic PRO version (v2.90) now has a spell checker and the amount of languages has increased to 19.
Thanks much, Hazelnut & Willy2. Looks very nice. I shall give it a try.
Haven't thought about a new email provider for years, but I am changing email one way or the other soon.
A question or two if I may.
Is it easy to save attachments locally using IMAP?
Are there big working differences between the free and paid? I saw that about the 2 account limit of the free?
Sorry to ask lazy questions. I am going to change email providers, so this by Hazelnut and Willy2 is very timely.
edit: on wxp and w7.
Thanks.
- Alas. Support for IMAP is still something for the (near ??) future. The developers wrote that IMAP already works on their servers. But that's all they are willing to say. Perhaps they still need to get rid of (A LOT OF) IMAP related bugs in the OEC program code. I don't know what's going on.
- The PRO version allows the user to separate emails in separate "Identities". I.e. you can separate e.g. your private emails from e.g. your work related emails.
https://www.oeclassic.com/online-help-identities
https://www.oeclassic.com/online-help-quickstart
- OEC seems to work on Windows 2000 and newer.
Thanks.
- Here a screenshot of the main screen of OE Classic.
- For those who want to know the difference between the free and the PRO version of OE Classic:
- There is a discussion thread on the topic "OE Classic" on the "Wilders Security" forum. And here one developer of OEC also chimes in.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/oe-classic-discussions-and-updates.393261/
- Currently the amount of languages supported by OEC has increased to 21. People who want to help to translate the program in more languages are still very welcome.
- Outlook Express Classic v2.9 (both the free & PRO version) released.
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