Outlook express.

Pace2008

I take it very few of you work in an office?

banquo

I don't. Out of curiosity, why would an office like their staff to use Outlook? Because then all emails are on the company server?

Wertz

Yup I use it. I have it open right now, with 4 different addys from different ISPs routing into it. I hate web based email.

[edit] This is a home PC and I don't work in an office.

Eoin

banquo wrote: »

I don't. Out of curiosity, why would an office like their staff to use Outlook? Because then all emails are on the company server?

Lots of possible reasons - collaboration / licensing / easier to support one application / easy integration with domain logons.

Email can be stored on the server with any email server I would think.

Joey the lips

How do you use it. I remember being told in was the 1995 windows 3.1 data base but I can never get it to work.

banquo

I see. I'm hearing support for this thing. Any reasons why it sucks?

my work uses it, I don't really have any issue with it

WIZE

banquo wrote: »

I don't. Out of curiosity, why would an office like their staff to use Outlook? Because then all emails are on the company server?

Because I have a work email address which is on an exchange server

But at home I set up my Pop 3 gmail account with Outlook 2007

WIZE

banquo wrote: »

I see. I'm hearing support for this thing. Any reasons why it sucks?

It sucks to you because you dont know how to use it

banquo

BVB wrote: »

It sucks to you because you dont know how to use it

Agreed. Also, it applies across the board. German also sucks.

Holsten

Na never got around to use it, I'd like to have all my e-mails stored on my computer, but hotmail still has mail from years ago so it does the job good enough.

ScumLord

I only use outlook express briefly or for emergency's as it comes with the XP install. I don't know about newer versions but that version has no spam filter so it next to useless. Thunderbird for work and Gmail for home. Is it possible to get gmail to get email from your own domain?

DS

ScumLord wrote: »

I only use outlook express briefly or for emergency's as it comes with the XP install. I don't know about newer versions but that version has no spam filter so it next to useless. Thunderbird for work and Gmail for home. Is it possible to get gmail to get email from your own domain?

Yup. You can either login from gmail through POP or IMAP, very simple, or manage it fully through Google Apps and use wildcards etc

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Stephen

Web services ftw. I do use Outlook (not Outlook Express, I think some people here still don't get the difference) in work, as we use Microsoft Exchange. I haven't used Outlook Express since my dialup days, and even then it was quickly replaced by better products

eddiehead

Work - Outlook 2003 , Home - Windows mail. Use it on a daily basis and I dont see the problem, don't like web based mail.

I also have Thunderbird on one of the PC's in work, don't like it myself, think people only use it so they can say things like...."Outlook?, God no, you should be using Thunderbird, its way better!"

dotsman

As already mentioned, Outlook Express is nothing like outlook. It is a $hitty, mail client.

Outlook (and thunderbird), on the other hand is a local email client. The idea is that you hook Outlook up to your email server. In my case, it's hooked up to my Gmail account. It's integrated with Windows/Office and has a host of features, most of which are more suitable for office work, but still handy for personal use.

Outlook/Thunderbird is a much faster/efficient system. Anybody using Outlook Express (or worse - Notes!) is a dumba$$, any body using Hotmail/Gmail via their browser is just amateur while anybody using Outlook/Thunderbird knows what they are doing.

SirLemonhead

lolz at anyone comparing the full version of outlook to gmail.

I use express here to access the Eircom broadband email account. Use Outlook 2003 at work (as do most people there)

SirLemonhead

dotsman wrote: »

As already mentioned, Outlook Express is nothing like outlook. It is a $hitty, web-based mail client.

It's also not a web-based mail client

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Express

crosstownk

I use Outlook in work - it's rubbish. I used Outlook Express quite a few years ago and it's the same rubbish. Mail all the way for me.

dotsman

SirLemonhead wrote: »

It's also not a web-based mail client

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook_Express

Apologies, I was getting it mixed up with something else. Was there a web-based version of it before? I've used Internet Mail, Outlook Express and another Microsoft web-based client. It's been so long now, I can't remember.

SirLemonhead

There's some web based microsoft mail thing but I can't remember what it is

WIZE

banquo wrote: »

Agreed. Also, it applies across the board. German also sucks.

Why does German suck

thebman

It is a terrible application IMO. I've only seen one person use it and that was in work when they tried to setup their own mail account and started the wrong program.

My Dad used it for a while after he retired but then got Ms Office so he could use the real Outlook.

I think desktop mail apps are obsolete for personal users unless you have multiple mail accounts or it can handle news feeds too or you want local copies of your email for some reason.

Gmail does everything you'd want and with Google Gears, you don't have to download it everytime to use it.

Eoin

I reckon if it wasn't Microsoft, people wouldn't hate it as much.

thebman wrote:

I think desktop mail apps are obsolete for personal users unless you have multiple mail accounts or it can handle news feeds too or you want local copies of your email for some reason.

I don't agree - I much prefer using an application to a website.

Venom

eoin wrote: »

Lots of possible reasons - collaboration / licensing / easier to support one application / easy integration with domain logons.

Email can be stored on the server with any email server I would think.

Also for the fact that every computer in the office will have it so no need to mess around with different types of mail clients.

Terry,

I too think people don't remember the old Express. I use Outlook 2007 at work but log on through Express to download attachments that Outlook blocks. Handy for that