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

[Red Squirrel]

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

I work in a NOC, so some of them are node down/up notices and stuff. Others are FYI stuff like if there's a power outage. I just skim through most of them. Normally if there's anything big going on like a city that's isolated of service we'll have a more official email. I'm still working on tweaking my outlook rules because it's just nuts to get so many emails. Worse is coming back after being off for a few days.

 

[DavidAtncus]

Ah, ok - got it...

I'm an analyst/programmer and have seen what you are seeing...
I've worked as an FTP Admin, developer, Sys Admin, etc, ...
I learned to filter, direct, ignore,...email as needed...

Each Corp/Job is different, I try to figure out what I can, and learn who to ask and trust to help me if I can't figure it out.

If I have a "good Boss", that is where I start a conversation about issues, and how to resolve.

Corp politics can be a real problem....

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

No. What are the reasons that I would want to?

 

[DavidAtncus]

I'm still working on tweaking my outlook rules because it's just nuts to get so many emails. Worse is coming back after being off for a few days.

If i can help you with this, let me know...I have had to learn about this the "hard way"...I'm no expert, but willing to try and help...

 

[gmaster456]

Outlook is too bloated for just personal email use. Works great in business but for my personal email, I use the gmail web client or if I'm in a good mood, Thunderbird.

 

[pauldun170]

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.

I use 2010 as an imap client for a couple gmail accounts. Just tested sending an email from work laptop email to home computer email.
Showed right up.
Wife's account is setup with gmail account with tons of us folders and it all works fine in outlook.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I use 2010 as an imap client for a couple gmail accounts. Just tested sending an email from work laptop email to home computer email.
Showed right up.
Wife's account is setup with gmail account with tons of us folders and it all works fine in outlook.

Try deleting a couple thousand emails at once. You'll be waiting a while. Unless it's better in 2010. Actually I'd be curious to know if they've improved things.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Try deleting a couple thousand emails at once. You'll be waiting a while. Unless it's better in 2010. Actually I'd be curious to know if they've improved things.

Nope. Everything is still single threaded. Completely sucks.

 

[Nothinman]

I use 2010 as an imap client for a couple gmail accounts. Just tested sending an email from work laptop email to home computer email.
Showed right up.
Wife's account is setup with gmail account with tons of us folders and it all works fine in outlook.

Maybe they did add IDLE support in some circumstances, is it smart enough to use server-side search yet?

 

[Anubis]

no,

i use thunderbird

 

[Charlie98]

Try deleting a couple thousand emails at once.

On personal email???

I use Outlook 2003 for all my email, including my business accounts... but, jeepers, I don't go that far!

 

[Red Squirrel]

On personal email???

I use Outlook 2003 for all my email, including my business accounts... but, jeepers, I don't go that far!

99% of it is spam mind you. I had over 3000 spam emails in one of my accounts just now, I deleted them all in 2 seconds.

Outlook would be locking up right now and I'd have to ctrl+alt+delete out of it.

 

[berryraceroldMatrixLeader]

I use ThunderBird

 

[qft]

Cheap hosted exchange like OwnWebNow is pretty cheap, but I still just use gmail.

 

[mirandu04]

well yes just because i have just one work email to go with

 

[nemesismk2]

I use Thunderbird

 

[Sid59]

For those using any email client, how do you handle it on more than 1 computer or device?
between work, iphone, 2 desktops, a laptop and soon to be tablet, i dont see the need for a client?

Back when i only had a desktop, i used Thunderbird.

 

[Charlie98]

For those using any email client, how do you handle it on more than 1 computer or device?
between work, iphone, 2 desktops, a laptop and soon to be tablet, i dont see the need for a client?

Back when i only had a desktop, i used Thunderbird.

Mail I download on my iPhone will still download off the server when I get home to the desktop.

Mail I download to my laptop (mail worthy of attention...) gets forwarded back to my secondary email accounts where I can download it on the desktop for appropriate action and storage.

 

[Nothinman]

For those using any email client, how do you handle it on more than 1 computer or device?
between work, iphone, 2 desktops, a laptop and soon to be tablet, i dont see the need for a client?

Back when i only had a desktop, i used Thunderbird.

My primary account is gmail, so the gmail app on my phone is probably my primary client now. However, I have my own IMAP server running which downloads my gmail but that's mostly for archiving purposes now.

 

[lxskllr]

For those using any email client, how do you handle it on more than 1 computer or device?
between work, iphone, 2 desktops, a laptop and soon to be tablet, i dont see the need for a client?

Back when i only had a desktop, i used Thunderbird.

I use IMAP now, so everything is synced between devices. Back when I used POP, I used my main computer as the master. It retrieved the messages, then deleted them from the server. All my secondary machines downloaded the messages, but left them on the server.