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The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook.
Slate ^ | January 29, 2009 | Farhad Manjoo

Posted on 02/01/2009 8:19:13 AM PST by Arec Barrwin

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To: Oshkalaboomboom

I didn’t like Outlook and like someone else said, I don’t trust google with anything.


41 posted on 02/01/2009 10:12:29 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Quix
They now have an Open Source version in Beta.

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 :-)

42 posted on 02/01/2009 10:28:12 AM PST by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; airedale

OK, thanks gentlemen. I’ll try it out.


43 posted on 02/01/2009 10:29:43 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: ElayneJ

to review later


44 posted on 02/01/2009 10:39:13 AM PST by ElayneJ
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To: Quix

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.


45 posted on 02/01/2009 10:48:45 AM PST by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: ThomasThomas

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


46 posted on 02/01/2009 11:08:46 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Texas Fossil
"I have already had an e-mail via my local ISP “filtered” where it connected to Yahoo. Beware, the knobs of dissent are tightening."

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

47 posted on 02/01/2009 12:05:48 PM PST by Tomato lover (The Lord freed me of the world's opinion of success)
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


48 posted on 02/01/2009 12:16:52 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: SirAllen
Every customer that I have converted to Lotus Notes is absolutely amazed at how much better it is than Outlook. Re: bloat, the newest version has a considerably smaller footprint, and much more power!

BTW - who announced an increase in earnings last year, and who took a loss? IBM up considerably; Microsoft is down.

49 posted on 02/01/2009 12:19:14 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Arec Barrwin

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.


50 posted on 02/01/2009 12:20:21 PM PST by PAR35
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To: LiteKeeper

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.


51 posted on 02/01/2009 12:37:40 PM PST by SirAllen (Liberalism*2 = Communism)
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To: Hank Kerchief
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.

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.

52 posted on 02/01/2009 2:30:00 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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To: ReformedBeckite

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.


53 posted on 02/01/2009 2:40:52 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: XeniaSt

Do you know if Eudora now works with MSN.COM

or with Linux?

I loved that program.


54 posted on 02/01/2009 2:41:50 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: zeugma

Been a while since I tried Thunderbird. Was problematic somehow when I first tried it.

Thanks.


55 posted on 02/01/2009 2:42:32 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: ThomasThomas

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


56 posted on 02/01/2009 2:44:02 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Quix

http://www.eudora.com/betas/


57 posted on 02/01/2009 3:05:09 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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