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I'd like to switch to Outlook.com (mainly because Google already knows far too much about me), but switching to another email address is going to confuse just about everyone I know.
Even now people use the address I used years ago 
And I'd like to keep all my stuff, emails, contacts, etc. (actually that's just it, emails and contacts), but I found out Outlook doesn't let you import or even set photo's for your contacts...
I took all photo's of all my contacts personally, because I like talking to them in person and then taking their picture personally. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't know this word, 'personal', and only shows photo's from social networks (which I don't have, save for CodeProject).
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I also use Open-Xchange[^] webmail. This is the webmail client provided by 1and1 who hosts all my domains.
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It's like comfort food.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's a bit of a pain, but...
Outlook is the primary: it read, organises, and stores all emails. And it's backed up daily. It is the only application allowed to remove emails from the server, which it does when it has downloaded them.
Google Email for Android reads only - and gets about 50% of them while Outlook is running since they check at different times. That's the PITA bit. If I don't turn Outlook off, I can miss emails until the next day.
But...the android software means I get emails in Tescos. When passing WiFi hotspots. Anywhere, pretty much since my tablet is with me at all times. And that's worth a fair amount of irritation!
So why not use the android email as the master and forget Outlook? Because it enforces my rules, filters my spam, and organises everything. And that's pretty important.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Have been using this for years and it does what I need it to do.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Because I run my own mail server, I use Thunderbird as my desktop client and Squirrel as my web client for all other platforms.
/ravi
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I must be an old-timer, I still use Thunderbird more than anything else; not work related.
I'm not a big fan of web mail UIs, I prefer a client application be Thunderbird or even Outlook.
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Joe Gakenheimer wrote: I still use Thunderbird
/ravi
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Me too: simple, fast
But I miss the old Eudora...
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Right with ya... Outlook at work because I have to, Thunderbird at home because I want to.
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Exactly! Online is only used if I don't have my laptop / PC / thumb-drive with portable apps / etc. with me.
Else it's Thunderbird as far as I'm allowed.  Also one of those unfortunates where the office enforces all things Microsoft!
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What the heck was this?? No Thunderbird? No Mulberry? You've got to be kidding!
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Thunderbird is great... deserves more than to be included under 'Others'...
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And what does Windows Mail mean? The Outlook Express clone that was in Vista or the Windows 8/RT Mail client? Anyway, answered assuming Windows 8/RT Mail client and checked Others to mention Windows Phone Mail.
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If you wish to get to the core of the problem, the problem stems from their being no space with the apple-obsessed survey.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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xawari wrote: Mulberry
That's a handbag........my wife keeps wanting those for some reason. 
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And no Pine? 
Strange to think, but after all these years, there is still no truly good email client in existence. Give me something that, besides having a well-designed interface suitable to someone with multiple sources of incoming mail, can handle a large message store from decades of archived messages, lets me own my own mail (read: isn't a webmail service), allows real tagging/labeling (not on the order of a dozen tags or something, but treats it as a first-class classification system, like Gmail except with genuinely hierarchical tags), searches quickly and allows advanced searches, puts no silly limit on the number of email addresses that can be associated with a contact and lets us search by contact rather than by email address (because really, after decades of email use, we haven't figured out that any given person is likely to have had more than 3 addresses over all that time? I have more than that many at any given *one* time.) It has to allow very quick filing, ideally without leaving the keyboard. Certainly no having to click on a dropdown of tags and scroll through it multiple times. It should support encryption. It needs to store its messages in a format that makes for easy synchronization between systems without magic and finger-crossing or even any specialty tools at all (I'm looking at you, Outlook and your .PST files that change every time you open Outlook even when you don't look at a message), such as a one-file-per-message scheme. It needs to thread messages properly, which almost none do (Gmail-style conversations are only halfway there; I mean true threads, like we had years ago on Usenet, or like The Bat does reasonably well today), and which Outlook and the rest still can't do. (Threading only on subject is an *awful* solution when you have mail from years in your archive, as it links together huge numbers of utterly unrelated messages.) It needs to let you choose the sort order instead of imposing that godawful most-recent-first sort on you. And it should be free of charge. Just kidding, I don't even care about the cost part at this point, I've been drowning under the inefficiency of every email client out there for years, even with helpers like NEO Pro and Taglocity.
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