Do You Use Microsoft Outlook for Your Personal E-mail Account?

[TalonStrike]

Do You Use Microsoft Outlook for Your Personal E-mail Account?

 

[GustySoul]

Only for work. If you have an office job, I don't know that there's any way you can get away from it.

 

[TalonStrike]

Only for work. If you have an office job, I don't know that there's any way you can get away from it.

I meant for your personal e-mail account.

 

[GustySoul]

Oops... I'd need to change my answer to "No" then.

I've never met anyone who used Outlook for personal e-mail.
I didn't even know you could / didn't know Outlook worked without a MS Exchange server.

 

[TalonStrike]

Oops... I'd need to change my answer to "No" then.

I've never met anyone who used Outlook for personal e-mail.
I didn't even know you could / didn't know Outlook worked without a MS Exchange server.

Yeah, I was able to get my gmail account working with Outlook on my home computer and I don't have anything fancy installed.

 

[Slugbait]

I've never met anyone who used Outlook for personal e-mail.

I'll bet that you have.

Personally, I've been using it for personal email since '98. Used to sync it with my iPAQ, now I sync it with my w580i.

 

[TalonStrike]

When I tried using Outloook with my Gmail account, I noticed that there is a delay. I sent myself a few test e-mails to see how fast I received them. When I looked in the web browser, I received the emails almost instantly. In Outlook, there was a delay of at least a few minutes. Why is this?

 

[pauldun170]

Outlook user here.
Using it at home since Office2000 and have upgraded with each release (on 2010 now)
Use for both pop and imap email, Contacts and scheduling.
Every other email client I've tried has been filled with suck compared to Outlook.

 

[zokudu]

When I tried using Outloook with my Gmail account, I noticed that there is a delay. I sent myself a few test e-mails to see how fast I received them. When I looked in the web browser, I received the emails almost instantly. In Outlook, there was a delay of at least a few minutes. Why is this?

Outlook syncs content with the imap servers every few minutes. I think mine is set to every 10 minutes unless I force it to refresh.

 

[pauldun170]

Outlook syncs content with the imap servers every few minutes. I think mine is set to every 10 minutes unless I force it to refresh.

If you click send\recieve tab and the pull the drop down on send\recieve groups you can pick "define send recieve groups" and set the intervals there.
thats in 2010
In 2007, its in options.

 

[TalonStrike]

If you click send\recieve tab and the pull the drop down on send\recieve groups you can pick "define send recieve groups" and set the intervals there.
thats in 2010
In 2007, its in options.

can you make it refresh every single minute so that there are no time gaps?

 

[Berryracer]

IMHO, anyone who uses Outlook for his personal e-mail should be shot dead in the head (j/k )

Seriously, I was one of those people who used Outlook for his personal emails, I had 2 gmail accounts added there and a GMX email, was easy for me to check my emails from one place.

One day I read on a forums someone making fun of Outlook and it's slow performance. And it's true, it's very slow, like when you delete an email or check for new emails, it takes a couple of seconds until it does the job. While this may mean nothing to many peolpe, it does to me, I am obsessed about having a snappy system.

That's when I tried Thunderbird FTW and never looked back!

Thunderbird is much faster when checking for new emails, composing, deleting, it's almost instantaneous. In addition to that, it has very cool add-ons such as the "Google Contacts" addons which automatically syncs the contacts you have on your GMAIL with the contacts in Thunderbird

 

[hclarkjr]

what version of outlook was that? i use outlook 2010 and have no delays like you speak of with it. and yes i use outlook for email both home and at work. i have used thunderbird to try it and did not like it compared to outlook.

 

[Berryracer]

what version of outlook was that? i use outlook 2010 and have no delays like you speak of with it. and yes i use outlook for email both home and at work. i have used thunderbird to try it and did not like it compared to outlook.

2010 Bro. 2010 improved the speed on things over 2007 but is still nowhere near the snapiness of Thunderbird

 

[GrumpyMan]

Hmmm, go figure, I've been using Outlook forever, now on 2007 version, for all my email accounts and it's lightning fast. I don't get the hate for it really, but, whatever.

 

[MadScientist]

I use Outlook 2007 and 2010 for my email account. It does what I want. Have not noticed any speed issues with either version.

 

[Charlie98]

I was forced into Outlook 2003 when I went to W7 on my new primary computer, from Outlook Express. I don't care for it, but it works and, after a tremendous amount of tweaking, is tolerable. I'm considering upgrading to Office 2010 primarily to get the most recent version of Outlook.

I tried Thunderbird and found it just as cluttered to use as Outlook.

 

[pauldun170]

I re tried Thunderbird last month.
Couldn't stand it.
Wouldn't cleanly import old thunderbird repositories was the biggest flag.

Nice thing with Outlook is that it integrated with the rest of the office 2010. A lot of handy little things.

 

[Nothinman]

Outlook is a terrible IMAP client, but then again most other mail clients are too. If Outlook were using IMAP IDLE then there would be no delay in delivery of mail. But IMAP is used so rarely by consumers and they push Exchange for corporate users that I'm sure MS won't ever be worried about fixing it.

 

[lxskllr]

Using a proprietary email client is unacceptable. Regardless of features, I wouldn't use it for that fact alone.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I used to but I switched to Thunderbird which I love. I never had problems importing old emails, etc either since i use mozbackup.

 

[DavidAtncus]

I use Outlook and have been for many years - currently using 2010.
Right now I have 6 email accounts ( IMAP / SMTP / MAPI / POP ).
It checks all accounts every hour, and notifys me of any new mail.
Incoming messages are put in the local folder I chose, by account.
For me, that is good enough for personal use... I configured it this way by choice.

I've tried Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, (and others).
I prefer Outlook - probably because I know it, and have used it for so long.

I really don't trust the "Cloud" yet, and prefer to have a local copy of my data...

I do see the point of lxskllr's reply of:
"Using a proprietary email client is unacceptable. Regardless of features, I wouldn't use it for that fact alone."

If i don't have Outlook, all my local email might be unreadable and useless...so, maybe i'm locking myself into Outlook...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't. I used to way back in the day, I had my pop account setup. Now I use Thunderbird with Imap. All my mail comes in to the server in my basement which acts as an Imap server. I like having everything centralized as it makes backups easier.

 

[Red Squirrel]

IMHO, anyone who uses Outlook for his personal e-mail should be shot dead in the head (j/k )

Seriously, I was one of those people who used Outlook for his personal emails, I had 2 gmail accounts added there and a GMX email, was easy for me to check my emails from one place.

One day I read on a forums someone making fun of Outlook and it's slow performance. And it's true, it's very slow, like when you delete an email or check for new emails, it takes a couple of seconds until it does the job. While this may mean nothing to many peolpe, it does to me, I am obsessed about having a snappy system.

That's when I tried Thunderbird FTW and never looked back!

Thunderbird is much faster when checking for new emails, composing, deleting, it's almost instantaneous. In addition to that, it has very cool add-ons such as the "Google Contacts" addons which automatically syncs the contacts you have on your GMAIL with the contacts in Thunderbird

lol yes it is slow! I get a couple thousand emails a day at work, and our mailbox limits are ridiculous, so I find myself only keeping important ones, basically anything from coworkers or my boss, then I do select all and delete for the rest, and it can take a few minutes.

At home I get a couple thousand spam emails in a week or so, so once in a while I'll go in the spam folder, make sure there's no false positives, do select all and delete, and instantly they're gone. Either imap is much more efficient than mapi, or it's the client that's just faster. I'm going to guess it's the client. Though the newer Thunderbird is not as snappy as 1.0 was. I noticed that when I upgraded not too long ago. It's still fast though.

 

[DavidAtncus]

lol yes it is slow! I get a couple thousand emails a day at work

I don't see how anyone could read a couple thousand emails a day, and get any work done...