Grump
I wonder how many M$$$ customers have a quiet moan every time they use their e-mail systems??
Outlook Express did exactly what I wanted.
Like others, I did not like any of its successors such as "Live" Mail. So I switched to Outlook. Lucky I could do so cheaply.
However, it really is a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and it does gazillions of things that I DO NOT want, whilst those gazillions of things make it harder for me to find where the basics are.
Grump over.