Exchange client for Win10

[RJWyrd]

I'm looking for an Open Source mail client for W10 that can connect to an Exchange server. I have already scoured the net as much as I possibly can and keep coming up with the same things over and over.

I'm aware of Thunderbird (pay for exchange) and eM Client (pay for exchange), but I'd rather find an Open Source or Freeware client that can connect to an exchange server. There's quite a few for android, but nothing I can find for PC that doesn't have some sort of a pay to connect to exchange price tag attached to it.

It's not really a need in this case. It's more of a want. I can always boot up the company laptop and use Outlook, but it's far slower than this W10 box I recently put together, which will no longer run the version of Office I used on my previous XP box. I ended up going with Open Office to replace the MS products I can no longer use, but it still needs a separate mail client.

I'm just more productive on my PC than I ever could be with the company laptop, so for the most part, it sits except when visit a client/customer.

In short, I'm not willing to pay for any subscription service out of my own pocket to do on my PC what I can do on my company laptop and the company isn't willing to put a newer version on my personal PC. That's what the laptops are supposed to be for. So either there is a freeware mail client out there that can connect to an exchange server or I'll just stick to using my phone and the laptop for emails.

Any input appreciated.

 

[hang-the-9]

Your company does not have webmail setup? The main one is Outlook, unless they changed licensing for that program, it comes free with Exchange, your company IT department should be able to install it. Not the full office, but Outlook use is allowed.

 

[RJWyrd]

Your company does not have webmail setup?

They do and I do use it only in a dire need of sending mail only. I still prefer a real client over webmail. Over the years I've created quite a few offline folders that have information that is needed from time to time. That can't be done with webmail only and when the mailbox gets full there's nowhere to move old messages to like I do with a real client. With a client I can just move them to an offline folder which is usually done about once a year.

The main one is Outlook, unless they changed licensing for that program, it comes free with Exchange, your company IT department should be able to install it. Not the full office, but Outlook use is allowed.

It may come with Exchange, but they're not allowed to distribute it over the internet, as far as they tell me. I work from home, which is functionally a satellite location and the Corporate offices are 1200 miles away. They've also expressed concerns about loading it on an employee's personal PC rather than a company one. Their stance is that they provide the laptop and that is all you should need. Mind you it's a core2duo running Win7 with only 1 gb ram setup on a domain with VPN access and with all the other garbage the corporate load has, makes it crawl like a 386 running Win95. I'm just looking for options. If there's none out there, so be it. I was just hoping that there were alternative options for a mail client that can connect to an exchange server.

 

[hang-the-9]

Well you got the details from your IT, they don't want it on a personal PC. The laptop does need upgrading, the CPU is OK for Windows but 1 GB of RAM is 10 year old specs. Tell them you can't work well from the laptop, they are paying you to sit there and wait for the thing to load, it's much cheaper to either replace or upgrade the system.

 

[RJWyrd]

it's much cheaper to either replace or upgrade the system.

They're too cheap for that. Plus, I still need this laptop for the serial port used to connected to customer equipment for diagnostic purposes. New laptops don't have serial ports, which is why we're still using these old outdated laptops to begin with. It's mostly the at home (mounds of paperwork) stuff that I need to do and I already have everything except email setup on my PC to handle it. The dual monitor setup I have going on has been a blessing with being able to have 2 instances of SAP opened on one monitor and spreadsheets and other needed data on the other. I've already increased at home productivity 10 fold. It's not worth worrying about the laptop when it sits 90% of the time and only used for email and those rare cases of connecting to customer equipment.

I would have though that a simple 3rd party Exchange Client would be a simple, no brainer, kind of thing, but apparently there's not much out there for PC. Cell phones are all the rage these days.