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as i am 13 years old and i go to boarding school, contacting home is quite a pressing matter, and it is still quite important to me.... so as i go to boarding school in England, and the rest of my... more

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for Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0

Rating Summary based on 49 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		26
  • 4 Stars
    		22
  • 3 Stars
    		1
  • 2 Stars
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  • Range of extra features / functions
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  		• 4.2
  		• 3.6
  		• 4.4
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    gransurfer1

    5 Stars I Love My Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 01/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use and customize. Lots of options.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none that I know of

    I love my Outlook Express! It is the best as far as I'm concerned. I use it at home all the time. It is very user friendly, a big plus for me as I was computer illiterate when I first got connected to the internet. The way the layout can be customised is one of its great features. The menu bar has all the drop-down menus you would expect, allowing you to customise Outlook, export or import mail, and switch between mail accounts. You can customise the toolbar and sort how your email is displayed. You sort how your email is displayed by having emails listed one by one, or listed with the ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    xr2i16v

    5 Stars Lots of features 07/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lots of features, easy to use

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none I have encountered

    Outlook Express is an excellent email client. I use it at work all day long and find it extremely user friendly. It is as useful for the home user as the more advanced business user. It has a nice layout that can be customised to the way that you like it. The mails are listed on one side of the screen and the folders on the other side. The most impressive thing about Outlook is the number of ways in which you can sort and display information and customise it. For example with emails in your inbox, you can sort how they are displayed in the way that suits you best. You can just have mails ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    darrenloud

    5 Stars Comprehensive Review With Tips For Ciao Users 23/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great for keeping email organised.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Has problems with security.

    Outlook Express is an ‘Email Client’, this means that it can assist in managing your emails, and is pretty essential is you are planning on reading your email offline, or want to take advantage of POP3 email. (POP means post office protocol) Outlook Express 5.0 is not the newest version now (Outlook 6 has just been released), however, it is the most popular version as it comes free with Windows 98 and above and has previously been available on cover discs, etc. It is a versatile piece of software that allows a user to manage multiple email accounts within one window. It allows the ... more
  • 26 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    judithritchie

    5 Stars The best mail client available 13/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easyt o use and customise, great help features - comprehensive, easily accessible, office assistant

    Disadvantages Disadvantages perhaps the fact that it can keep a copy of all your emails although im sure theres a feature to turn this off

    I have been on email since I first went to university in 1998, and Sheffield University use Pegasus Mail client, downloadable from Shareware, ZDNet and such sites for free. Whilst you can download some good quality modern versions of this mail client for free and it serves its purpose very well, it is very grey and boring and when I started using Office 2000 I decided to check out the infamous Outlook 2000 that was included on the CD. And I have not regretted it! Before I used this mail client, I had avoided Outlook programs because there had been several computer virus scares which had been ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    NKTP

    4 Stars Look Out With Outlook Express 12/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use, Wizards, very customisable indeed. Free!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Insists on whirring with a news server that holds more than about 35,000 groups.

    Outlook Express is the cut-down freebie version of Microsoft's popular Outlook client. Unlike Outlook, OE will function as a newsreader and an e-mail client. You almost always find this installed alongside Internet Explorer, as it's one of the things that Microsoft insists on installing on every PC whether you want it or not. It's not a bad newsreader, its just there have been so many security holes found in it that swiss cheese looks solid by comparision. The first thing to do when it's installed and spent a few minutes at reboot configuring and registering itself with the system, is to set ... more