Question Now that Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on Mail and Calendar App, what alternatives do you suggest ?

[SomeGuyonTHW]

I hate the new Outlook with all my life, overly cluttered, so many buttons I do not need.
I want something simple, I want to read my emails, reply, send, and archive or send to spam the ones I don't need.

Guess what, the old Mail and Calendar app on Windows 10 and 11 satisfied me, I loved it, it was simple, with a clean layout.
Not to mention the beautiful nature backgrounds so perfectly blending in with the dark theme, especially the rain forest one.
You get the point, I felt pretty attached to that app, I loved it with all my life.

When Microsoft announced and started installing the new Outlook on my PC without my permission, guess what I did, I went on a rampage, I made sure the folder in which the outlook app gets installed is always massacred so Microsoft CAN NOT open the new outlook whenever I open my good old trusty mail app.

That kept working until today, today a new notification pops up that doesn't go away, they also handicapped the app by making it not send or receive emails anymore. They INTENTIONALLY RUINED MY BELOVED MAIL APP!

Now, I ask you, good people of toms hardware, what's a simple mail app that will fulfill the role the old native mail app had in my life? I explained why I loved it in my rant above, I'm looking for something simple, no-nonsense, reliable, secure, with all the essential features a mail app must have -- and oh, dark mode with custom rainforest background, I want my rain forest back.

Microsoft, I hate you.

 

[Nine Layer Nige]

I use Thunderbird

 

[JeffreyP55]

I hate the new Outlook with all my life, overly cluttered, so many buttons I do not need.
I want something simple, I want to read my emails, reply, send, and archive or send to spam the ones I don't need.

Guess what, the old Mail and Calendar app on Windows 10 and 11 satisfied me, I loved it, it was simple, with a clean layout.
Not to mention the beautiful nature backgrounds so perfectly blending in with the dark theme, especially the rain forest one.
You get the point, I felt pretty attached to that app, I loved it with all my life.

When Microsoft announced and started installing the new Outlook on my PC without my permission, guess what I did, I went on a rampage, I made sure the folder in which the outlook app gets installed is always massacred so Microsoft CAN NOT open the new outlook whenever I open my good old trusty mail app.

That kept working until today, today a new notification pops up that doesn't go away, they also handicapped the app by making it not send or receive emails anymore. They INTENTIONALLY RUINED MY BELOVED MAIL APP!

Now, I ask you, good people of toms hardware, what's a simple mail app that will fulfill the role the old native mail app had in my life? I explained why I loved it in my rant above, I'm looking for something simple, no-nonsense, reliable, secure, with all the essential features a mail app must have -- and oh, dark mode with custom rainforest background, I want my rain forest back.

Microsoft, I hate you.

I never used the MS garbage.
Thunderbird since the 90's. Rainlendar isn't pretty but does the job I need.

Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox.

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!

www.thunderbird.net

Rainlendar

www.rainlendar.net

 

[SomeGuyonTHW]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give Thunderbird a try

 

[SomeGuyonTHW]

I gave thunderbird a try and the app is too complicated, I yearn for the simplicity of the native mail app, with privacy of thunderbird, and a rain forest background.

 

[Cilantro7536]

I went from Outlook to Thunderbird, and then eventually to Google's ecosystem. Thunderbird was nice and fast, but I wanted to have syncing/integration with platform apps, which I didn't do very well with Thunderbird.

Now my life is much easier with Google apps and Android contacts / calendar / reminder. I do like talking to my phone (and by proxy, Google 😳)

I still don't think this has the simplicity you are looking for, though. Most viable email systems have to have the complexity to deal with business needs. What you are looking for is a home user email / calendar system which Mail & Calendar provided.

 

[SomeGuyonTHW]

I went from Outlook to Thunderbird, and then eventually to Google's ecosystem. Thunderbird was nice and fast, but I wanted to have syncing/integration with platform apps, which I didn't do very well with Thunderbird.

Now my life is much easier with Google apps and Android contacts / calendar / reminder. I do like talking to my phone (and by proxy, Google 😳)

I still don't think this has the simplicity you are looking for, though. Most viable email systems have to have the complexity to deal with business needs. What you are looking for is a home user email / calendar system which Mail & Calendar provided.

Exactly! home user email, the apps for it are extinct apparently, Microsoft felt the need to kill my perfectly good app.

I mean realistically, they could just leave it as is and stopped updating it, it should keep working right?! its not like Email technology is evolving every day, its been the same thing since forever... but they are replacing it by force, and HIJACK MY COMPUTER to do so, it makes me so mad!

 

[LordVile]

I hate the new Outlook with all my life, overly cluttered, so many buttons I do not need.
I want something simple, I want to read my emails, reply, send, and archive or send to spam the ones I don't need.

Guess what, the old Mail and Calendar app on Windows 10 and 11 satisfied me, I loved it, it was simple, with a clean layout.
Not to mention the beautiful nature backgrounds so perfectly blending in with the dark theme, especially the rain forest one.
You get the point, I felt pretty attached to that app, I loved it with all my life.

When Microsoft announced and started installing the new Outlook on my PC without my permission, guess what I did, I went on a rampage, I made sure the folder in which the outlook app gets installed is always massacred so Microsoft CAN NOT open the new outlook whenever I open my good old trusty mail app.

That kept working until today, today a new notification pops up that doesn't go away, they also handicapped the app by making it not send or receive emails anymore. They INTENTIONALLY RUINED MY BELOVED MAIL APP!

Now, I ask you, good people of toms hardware, what's a simple mail app that will fulfill the role the old native mail app had in my life? I explained why I loved it in my rant above, I'm looking for something simple, no-nonsense, reliable, secure, with all the essential features a mail app must have -- and oh, dark mode with custom rainforest background, I want my rain forest back.

Microsoft, I hate you.

macOS

 

[Eximo]

Squirrel mail? Might be too archaic.

Been a long time since I have seen anyone use a non-corporate solution. I pretty much use G-mail for personal and Outlook for work. I don't particularly like the new Outlook, but it isn't terrible. I can see why they did some things, but often I find it lacks the visual clues needed to direct you to the right places.

You can probably track down an open source mail client that has modern intercompatibility features and a simple interface.