I have IncrediMail 2.5 Premium, my wife still preferred the older Incredimail XE. She got an email from IncrediMail a couple weeks ago advising her about it being shut down - I didn't get one - and she just told me about it. I've followed the thread here and I admit to being far from any computer tech but something I don't understand. Maybe someone could enlighten me. There are two ways to set up email software - IMAP or POP3 and if I understand the difference, IMAP leaves mail on a cloud server somewhere but POP3 actually downloads the messages to the local computer. IMAP permits one to check email from anywhere wheres POP3 means you must be at your computer to access email. Now if I have that correct, when I set up our IncrediMail years ago I set it for POP3. We use a local ISP and our email addresses are with the ISP. We both also have cloud email addresses too - Yahoo or GMail. Mine is for occasional use on mobile devices or when posting something to a site (like this) but the majority is through my ISP email address. (They also have cloud access so I can see new emails from anywhere prior to being downloaded.) So to my point - since we are using IncrediMail with POP3 messages residing on our computer, not an IncrediMail server somewhere and this is locally installed software not using IncrediMail's server, it would seem to me that IncrediMail would continue to function normally for us past this Friday's deadline although I would no longer have access to any new skins, notifiers, etc beyond what I have already installed.
If I have that understanding correct, then for someone currently using IMAP settings, would that person not simply be able to change IMAP to POP3 (Tools > Email Accounts > Properties > Servers) with the appropriate address in the "Incoming Mail Server" box to download all their messages from the cloud location? The possible flaw in this I suppose would depend on where their email is hosted - as I said, I use a local ISP email hosting so I think it might work in that case. The messages would only be view-able on that computer.
I have also stored some emails that I consider important and want to keep in a folder outside of IncrediMail (File > Save As) although I have to open and save them that way one at a time but then I don't have a lot of them.
Anyway, don't know if this is of any use to anyone but I'll toss it out there. (I did install Thunderbird as a backup but hoping not to have to use it.)