In message , Mike Barnes
writes
Bill wrote:
In message sting.com,
Jabba writes

Turnpike is old. Demon have given up on it. Do you want to keep old
emails, the address book etc? Suggest you clean off your printer or
copy stuff to text files.

http://help.demon.net/announcements/...urnpike-email-
client/

There are free alternatives to Turnpike such as Thunderbird, which can
be used for mail and usenet. Many former Turnpike have transferred to
other software.

I'm not sure that I would encourage anyone to move from Turnpike. One of
its great advantages now is that because it's obsolescent, it doesn't
keep changing, unlike Thunderbird.
Here I run Thunderbird and Pan for some news, but all my main email and
news stays on Turnpike, simply because it works superbly, does exactly
what I want and has all the old emails. I do find that I now and again
need to look up some old email or some activation info for some program
that needs to be moved to a new machine.

Your situation is presumably different but the lack of IMAP access in
Turnpike completely rules it out for me.

Indeed, that was why I stopped using Turnpike (except for news, which I
don't read so much nowadays, but do for a few groups, and can't be
bothered to find soemthign else when Turnpike works fine for that)

I now use Thunderbird, and yes, I copied all my old emails from
Turnpike quite easily.

Having got used to Thunderbird I much prefer it to Turnpike, overall.
There are of course areas in which Turnpike is better, but nowhere near
enough to make me regret moving.

I did intall Thunderbird, I never quite got on with it for some reason.
It still runs here, but mostly just to keep a local copy of emails.

I mostly read and send emails on my phone nowadays though. Unless it's
long enough to be worth using a proper keyboard for.
--
Chris French