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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!

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I pop these using Outlook and use the Gmail smtp settings in Outlook so that all sent emails are also stored on Gmail. When an email is popped by Outlook, it gets archived on Gmail. I use Blackberry’s web client configured with all of the gmail accounts which sends any unpopped mail to my handheld. Why do I use Outlook you ask – I still find it useful to have a cached version of all of my mail at my fingertips and I mainly use the column sorting to find emails in Outlook.

I really don’t like the way Gmail uses “conversations” to group emails together and if this were an option, I’d like to toggle it off. I often send totally different emails with the same subject and to have those grouped together is annoying and can get you into a mess when choosing the wrong message in a conversation to forward or reply to.

Obviously, the reason for this set up is redundancy and accessibility. If I lose my laptop ordon’t have my device with me, I always have all of my mail available on the web. The only emails in the inbox are the ones not popped, ie not read, so its easy to keep up to date, And, if I were to get a new pc or switch clients, etc, all I need to do is move the messages in gmail from archive to inbox and the client will pop them all down to the desktop.

Why don’t I like Outllok? Firstly, performance. I really struggle with outlook’s performace. Even on fast machines, I have endless delays opening large pst files and almost daily have to shut down processes and restart Outlook in safe mode. Also, I don’t like the fact that pst’s are limited to 2gb. I have 6 years worth of email and would like it all in one big file that I can easily search and sort. As it stands, I would have to open 6 separate pst’s to get a view of all of that email. I know its a bit anal.

One thing I can highly recommend, for those of you who like me, view Outlook purely as a popper – check out one of the free Outlook RSS readers. I’ve been using a free one for 18 months and it really has revolutionised the way I use the web. I have over 100 feeds which Outlook faithfully pops for me every few minutes and I get to read these feeds like I would emails – they are grouped into folders like they are on bloglines, etc and I find it an extremely useful way of monitoring what’s happening on my radar in real time. The second someone blogs a new post, Outlook pops it for me into the relevant folder and I can see by the unread count against the folder if I have new stuff to read. Ctrl clicking opens the new articles in separate Firefox tabs – very useful. What’s more, the rss reader I use, pops a bliglines account so like Gmail, you can have all of your stuff stored on the web and just popped/cached to your desktop as you need. I see Attensa has just released a new free version on their Outlook rss reader – may be worth checking out.

Hope that’s useful.

@home I have KDE, so the client is Kontact.
@office I am running Gnome, and the e-mail client is Evolution.

Apart from that, I have HP hw6510 PocketPC Phone, and am running FlexMail as my e-mail/sms manager.

My e-mails are @gmail.

Paid account (5gb, 17 Eur for 1/2 year). Use exclusively with IMAP from several sources (laptop, office & home pcs). Underway – web access.

IMAP is the best thing for the email. And you do not provide the info about yourself to Big Google.

For webmail, I use Squirrelmail, an excellent IMAP-only solution, for those times I am without my laptop.

cheers, JH