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Here is a quote I like, “I have noticed that the people who wait

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I’ve used just about any mailapp/tool out there at one time or another, from pine, to communicator, thunderbird…and yes I even used outlook. I say this because in 10 years I have managed to carefully avoid using Outlook or any incarnation of it at all….just a preference.

Over the past few years I was a Thunderbird fan, after moving from communicator, excellent spam facility, and nice labeling of messages. But the nomadic lifestyle just did work in tandem with Thunderbird.

This was dropped for a paid (12 quid/year) version of yahoo. I explain that later, but before I do…i don’t get Gmail, I really don’t, I have used it, really tried to like it (last attempt 9 days ago)…but I just cannot see any beauty in it at all, from a visual layout, to a usability angle…they say PC’s are no good for the eyesight…must get it checked.

Anyhow back to yahoo, I use paid because I use multiple domains, and need to reply from multiple domains, which are hosted on different POP servers. I pull my email in, its all online, hence I am not tied to a PC, just get me in a internet cafe. All my docs are usually attached to emails (would really like a nice doc storage page where I can reference files by URL), so all docs are with me always.

The problem with yahoo used to be the calendar (a problem which Gmail still has, unless you Greasemonkey it), when you tried to use it, it moved you away from the mail page. Now they have it as a scroll bar at the bottom of the email page, and you can add from their also….just need to get the one box feature of 30boxes.com which I think is the best web based calendar out there.

My email get filtered into separate folders based on subjects and domains. The rest I leave in the inbox, and those which need to be actioned later I file into a ACTION folder. Others which have been answered and cannot be filed, I leave in the inbox, for a mass deletion later. Tagging would be good here. I guess someone needs to get zimbra hosted and selling cheaply/free, then we would have a really good email tool.

Having said all this, I am fast moving towards no folders, or any kind of ordering, I think a powerful search will be better than any of these. The amount of email I store is ridiculous, and even though a simple A-Z filing system works wonders, it still takes me time to find an email, I would much rather search for it, just as I do for a webpage. No need to file, anymore..great!

Iqbal Gandham

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