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-- More advanced and accessible client from your PC even offline. Thunderbird @ http://www.filehippo.com/download_thunderbird/ Windows Live Mail 2011 @ http://www.filehippo.com/download_windows_live_mail/ IncrediMail @ http://www.filehippo.com/download_incredimail/
Windows Live Mail is the grown up version of Outlook Express and is embedded in Windows 7 but for me, Mozilla Thunderbird still beats all - free of charge from http://www.mozilla.org and easy to configure with no problems when the file storage grows a bit.