It has its flaws, but it re-defined the way email/contacts/calendar were done, and as far as I'm concerned, does them more seamlessly than just about any other program.
It's not too hard to find many other programs that are trying to be like Outlook. Now admittedly it's best when running with an Exchange back-end, and yes, I was using the "IMAP" as a generic catch-all to mean "other IMAP mailer front ends"... you left out the part where I mentioned the many location/machine part. Outlook-MAPI-Exchange has no equals I've found when it comes to having a single view of all my PIM data everywhere that's all synced, all the time. Of course, YMMV. Void where prohibited. Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. -sc -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare<scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: > Outlook has rocked for years. Outlook isn't terribly good at anything in particular. There are better email programs. There are better calendar programs. There are better task managers. Outlook's strengths lie in integration, having everything in one program, which a lot of people like, and has some benefits in terms of information sharing. > IMAP didn't even really come close... and I tried hard to make it. IMAP's a protocol, not a program. Outlook even supports IMAP. So, um: Huh? :) If you're trying to say that it's hard to find a good IMAP client, I agree. Harder still to find one that has lots of power *and also* does offline caching well. I've never really found one that did everything I wanted to and also did offline caching well. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
