Some feedback/thoughts on Axigen

After a few days of use, I have gathered up some feedback and thoughts on Axigen. I'll section each thought/topic off by header.

Moving from Windows Live Admin Center to Axigen

A few months ago, it was announced that Microsoft will be phasing out Windows Live Admin Center (WLAC) in favor for their premium Office 365 product. A few weeks ago (probably a month or so, really) Microsoft was sending out emails to affected users. From that point forward, I wrote a post about the change, and I even reached out asking for everyone's advice. I was leaning towards a free (but proprietary) solution called Axigen.

Turns out, that's exactly what I went with.

Email Tip: Reading Pane Settings in Outlook.com and Hotmail

Get a lot of email? Want to read messages quickly while saving time? Well this tip is for you. If you did not know about this, most webmail clients and email clients allow something called a reading pane. They sound exactly like they are -- they are little panes where you can read your messages.

A sad thing about free email accounts these days...

Ah, email. We love you , and hate you.

Ya know, many people in this world use email. Most of those email accounts from from popular web mail providers, such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail (and pretty soon, Outlook.com), AOL mail, etc. One of the main requirements of having a free email account is to actually use it, and use it often.

You see, when you don't use your email account, it gets discarded -- and most likely deleted. That is the sad part about free email accounts.
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So, here is where I make this post interesting: Do you think that email accounts should be deleted after inactivity? Obviously there are reasons to delete email accounts that are inactive, such as to save server space (although that is probably not a factor these days).

You can weigh in your thoughts in the comments below, this time there won't be a poll unless I change my mind (with is not often).

Poll: What email service do you use?

With Microsoft recently releasing its new Outlook.com email service, I got a thought to ask the community here what email service they use. When I talk about email services, I'm talking about personal email services, not something like Google Apps Gmail and Microsoft Exchange. I'm talking about services like Yahoo and normal Gmail. You can vote in the poll below (you can enter another email service not listed in the “Other” box), and/or post a comment with your thoughts in it. If you have any thoughts on Hotmail and Outlook.com, and what the fate of Hotmail is going to be, I suggest you go here.