Email application

[vage]

What do you guys prefer to use and why?

 

[kenham40]

I used Entourage for awhile but the search and smart folders of apple mail are great and handles my home needs. For work I still use outlook 03 inside winxp under parallels.

 

[rbanzai]

Although I've used Entourage on and off for years I have had it with all the weird bugs, crashes and errors. I've been using Apple Mail on my home Mac since 2003 without even a single hiccup. At work we have Citrix for accessing Outlook which is good since Entourage blows up with most of the huge mailboxes people here have.

 

[hungryduck]

apple mail has always been fine for what i do.....works great, never lost my emails or anything (like used to happen in outlook from time to time).

 

[aaronlidman]

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[Cowcaster88]

I use Mail. For my first 2 years I used Entourage because I had a Hotmail account but I switch to just a IMAP and POP3 account (AOL & GMAIL) and it runs so much better, plus it got easily uploaded to my iPhone.

 

[CEpeep]

I haven't used a desktop client since switching to Gmail, and I don't intend to start anytime soon.

 

[Absentee]

Mail.app because I don't need anything more. I generally get the mail on my blackberry before anything else though (push mail FTW)

 

[t5brick]

I used Apple Mail at work, it does everything I need. For home use, I just use gmail.

 

[vage]

Looks like entourage is getting pooped on, I thought it would be a lot closer than this. I use gmail too but I hardly ever use it, I can't stand having to go through a web app. to get my mail.

 

[alphaone]

Apple Mail is the best email app I've ever used.. Does everything I could want and it's really fast.

 

[Biest]

I used both Mail and Thunderbird, bit came back to the good old www.gmail.com

 

[kenham40]

I used both Mail and Thunderbird, bit came back to the good old www.gmail.com

And if you need to read your mail without an internet connection available?

 

[vage]

I liked Apple Mail a lot when I used it, but the reason I really prefer using Entourage is because I like having my email, calender, address book, projects, and notes all in one application. Helps me stay much more organized. I think its just as easy to use as apple mail too.

 

[compslckr]

apple mail for me, i love the integration with ical, address book and iphoto, plus it is pretty lightweight.

 

[KevySaysBeNice]

gmail.

I can't figure out how a person such as myself would use Mail - I often times search for old mail, and I have a good 8000+ emails on my gmail account. I've coppied them all over to my Mac and importd them into Mail, but there are so many damn email I and they look so messy I just can't handle it.

Also, I can't handle the fact that if I send an email from gmail, it doesnt sync/appear corectly in Mail (when I say "appear correctly", what I really mean is "appear just as it does in gmail). For instants, "conversations" appear, but not as I feel they should. Emails that I've sent out appear in my inbox.

Also, I only want new emails in my inbox, not all emails.

 

[kenham40]

gmail.

I can't figure out how a person such as myself would use Mail - I often times search for old mail, and I have a good 8000+ emails on my gmail account. I've coppied them all over to my Mac and importd them into Mail, but there are so many damn email I and they look so messy I just can't handle it.

Also, I can't handle the fact that if I send an email from gmail, it doesnt sync/appear corectly in Mail (when I say "appear correctly", what I really mean is "appear just as it does in gmail). For instants, "conversations" appear, but not as I feel they should. Emails that I've sent out appear in my inbox.

Also, I only want new emails in my inbox, not all emails.

You can make folders (smart folders) that are searchable through spotlight (super fast)