Disclaimer: I'm writing this from OSX Mail.app.
In general I still prefer offline mail readers. Gmail+IMAP integrates
perfectly with mail.app, so my gmail recipes+tags and everything work
perfectly in conjunction with offline reading.
HOWEVER... I might take issue with the "far faster" statement. At work
a number of people have THunderbird mailboxes that probably in all
exceed 3-4GB. (say 4-5 years of email). When searching for an email
from "a couple of years ago" or even doing a full body message search
of the last 6-12 months, it can take a long time! Mail.app has much
better indexing and is faster than that, but compared to gmail where
you can literally instantly search tens--probably hundreds--of
thousands of messages? That's hard to beat...
Scott
On Jun 6, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Neil Davidson wrote:
Far faster and far more features. Offline email handling isn't exactly
possible with web based email either.
Backup of your email is something a bit difficult to do as well.
Especially
with Gmail.
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: 06 June 2009 12:11
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] I missed something along the way?
Frankly, I don't understand why anyone still uses Outlook or any
other stand
alone email client.
