-People that need help using desktop email programs should be using gmail instead. -People who understand how to simply setup an imap account should use a desktop client for many advantages: speed, offline cache, low data use, offline searchability, os integration, drag and drop, easy reorganization, attachment cache, read/delete/send before you can get online. (Especially considering many of our customer locations have sketchy cell service.)
For Windows users here is 1 more reason…. Some idiot decided that the backspace button in your browser should dump the current webpage with your 90% complete email and go back to the previous webpage. I’ve been using IMAP since macOS9 / AOL days. I haven’t used POP since Netscape navigator. I use osx and ios Mail for gmail and Outlook for work. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Darin Steffl <darin.ste...@mnwifi.com> Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 1:29 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT windows update issues 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 <dmmoff...@gmail.com<mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> 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… -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com<mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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