Posted on 02/01/2009 8:19:13 AM PST by Arec Barrwin
The Best E-Mail Program Ever How Gmail destroyed Outlook.
By Farhad Manjoo
Posted Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 5:52 PM ET
As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There is a certain bliss to this; if you've got a pile of letters that demand well-composed, delicate responses (say you're explaining to your boss why you ordered that $85,000 rug), unplugging the Internet can be the fastest way to get things done. That's why offline access is a killer feature—it destroys your last remaining reason for suffering through a desktop e-mail program.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I didn’t like Outlook and like someone else said, I don’t trust google with anything.
Didn't know that. Will check it out. Always liked Eurora, but have been using Thunderbird with the Lightning calendar plugin since I'm on Linux. I have to use Evolution, which is o.k., but not my favorite at work, because we have "MS-Exchange" for email.
I liked Pine too :-)
OK, thanks gentlemen. I’ll try it out.
to review later
Just downloaded it and checked it briefly. Looks like the Linux version is a repackaged Thunderbird client. Unfortunately, it doesn’t like the Lightning plugin, so I’ll not be able to use it.
You can use Outlook offline all it takes a click on a icon to go offline.
You can use Outlook offline and download new mail, and send new mail while not connected to the Internet? That’s news to me. Please explain how you do that.
Thanks!
Hank
We have been assimilated by Yahoo, also.
I hate it!
We have 6 email accounts and leave the email on the server, so two people can retrieve it from their own computers. I delete the messages after they have all be downloaded. This little 'merger' of theirs has created a pile more work for me to do this. I have to sign in and out for each account. Much more time consuming. We were given absolutely no voice in the matter, either.
Nothing will be in our email that we would not want the Government read, for I know they will be doing so. At least filters will be searching for key words or phrases.
Beware,
TL
For industrial strength email, the only system worth it’s salt is Lotus Notes. The problem is that too many companies try it, but never train their employees how to properly use it.
BTW - who announced an increase in earnings last year, and who took a loss? IBM up considerably; Microsoft is down.
Google has significant reliability programs. Business can’t safely rely on it for mission critical areas.
Google has privacy issues.
And Google lacks flexibility in how it organizes messages.
I have a GMail account which I use regularly. It’s better than some of the web mail services, as good as others. But it is no replacement for Outlook in a business environment.
My experience has been the exact opposite. The latest Notes version is much improved but still a hog compared to Outlook 2007. I know many people within a large organization that were switched to Notes (from Outlook/Exchange) a year ago and they are still complaining loudly about it today. I have not heard a positive thing about it yet, and they’ve had plenty of training on it.
Different strokes for different folks I guess but my observations have been the same.
No e-mail program cam do that. They were saying that Gmail could be composed and edited off line and this was to be a Outlook killer. But Outlook has had this feature before Gmail was around.
Trouble is, as of a couple of years ago . . . it would NOT work with MSN.COM SIGH.
That’s what we’re hooked to, now.
Do you know if Eudora now works with MSN.COM
or with Linux?
I loved that program.
Been a while since I tried Thunderbird. Was problematic somehow when I first tried it.
Thanks.
If you go back to the article, that’s exactly what it says Gmail can do, else it would be no big deal.
I doubt very much it is possible, unless Google has come up with some other means of transmitting data that does not rely on any of the present protocols (http, ftp, etc.). Doubt that very much.
Hank
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