Hello there; well, just so you no, with a couple registry tweaks, you can use windows mail, which is a very similar to OE. in fact, if you go to, computer, your c drive, then programs, then press the letter "p" a few times, you will hear/see, windows mail. as I indicated, with a few registry tweaks, you can get this email client working on the machine. have a good day. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yadiel Sotomayor To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:59 AM Subject: Re: Outlook 2003: problem with outgoing mails I don't know about OE, but there is no windows mail on win7. Its name is windows life mail. Now, I know that outlook 2007 and 2010 does work with windows 7. Maybe you should upgrade. From: Hamid Hamraz Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:28 AM To: jfw list Subject: Outlook 2003: problem with outgoing mails Dear all, I am using windows XP SP3 and outlook 2003. I have configured my Gmail account exactly as stated in Gmail help. I receive the incoming mails, but I can not send anything, without any kind of error message! Any suggestions? (I have imported the settings from OE, and then modified it to the ones in gmail help.) I really prefer to use OE, but I am switching to windows 7 soon. So I am looking for a well accessible counterpart for OE. Can OE be installed on windows 7, instead of windows mail? Any suggestions/comments is greatly appreciated. Cheers! Hamid Yadiel J. Sotomayor E-MAIL: yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx