Because webmail is slow. I can arrow key up and down through my inbox
to skim the automated alerts and advertising and delete as I go. I
really don't think there's an equivalent in a web app.
I do use Gmail and IMAP with my desktop client, and I won't lose any
mail due to a PC issue. I did tech support for email clients from 1999
until I stopped doing tech support. It really wasn't hard. The
fundamentals are the same in all of them, so you just download whatever
application they're using so you can see what they're looking at and
walk them through it.
There are 30-something year olds in our office have the same perspective
as you. Those guys insist that supporting desktop email is too hard or
something. I'm only 4 years apart from them, so maybe I'm at the tail
end of the "desktop email" group. I'm Dave in this comic.
YOU KIDS TODAY, WITH YOUR "CLOUD COMPUTERS" AND YOUR "GOOGLY DOCS." IN
MY DAY, WE ATTACHED FILES TO OUR EMAILS... --AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY.
DAVE, YOU'RE LIKE TWO YEARS
On 11/17/2020 1:28 PM, Darin Steffl wrote:
Can I ask why anyone likes using desktop email programs? Ever since I
was a kid, I've dreaded helping people with outlook, live mail, or
thunderbird because of issues like you're describing.
Also people who didn't set up IMAP so their emails disappeared off
their email server and only existed on their computer. Then they
didn't back things up so when their computer crashed, bye bye to all
their emails. Or if they bought a new computer and need to migrate, it
takes an hour or two to backup and move the outlook file.
Holy crap I shiver when I think about desktop email.
Gmail.com and then move on with life. Forget about database issues,
new computers, spam filtering, multiple devices per account, backups,
etc.
You couldn't convince me to ever use desktop email. That's so 2001 haha
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020, 12:05 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
EM Client can read the Outlook calendar invites. It's free for 1
account. Paid version if you need to check multiple accounts.
Mainly it's fast, even with a large Inbox. Highly recommend.
It also syncs with my GMail Calendar.
Thunderbird performance seems inversely proportional to how much
mail I have. Haven't used Outlook since the 2003 version.
On 11/17/2020 12:45 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
So, today it appears that my Windows Live Mail database is
corrupt. Can only see headers. So switching to outlook but that
is painful.
I rolled back the windows update that happened last night but
still dead WLM… sob…
Have resisted outlook for years. Few times it would be nice.
When someone sends a meeting or contact at least I can read it
without having to use a text editor and parsing through the
complex crap…
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