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View Poll Results: Which do you use as your main email?
Web-based (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc) 42 49.41%
Outlook, etc. 43 50.59%
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Old 08-24-2004, 06:30 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Web-based or Outlook email?

Which do you use? I've always used Outlook but now with Yahoo going to 100 MB and me geting a gmail account (1 GB!), I figure that it'd be nice to have my email on any computer around the world.
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Old 08-24-2004, 06:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
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for official stuff i like to use my schools email system which has a web based outlook and you can use outlook or thunderbird or whatever...

but for just web signups i'll use one of the freebie ones... yahoo... hotmail...gmail...etc...
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Old 08-24-2004, 06:49 PM   #3 (permalink)
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outlook

i have yahoopop running, not a problem downloading email from yahoo there, hotmail can be accessed through outlook also.

the main problem that I'm having using my own domain, the server sometimes down, or just poor in quality. I trust G-mail / yahoo more for this matter.
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Old 08-24-2004, 06:52 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Thunderbird. I actually really like the gmail web interface, though, and I use my campus webmail whenever Im not at my computer. Good news is its imap, so everything is on their servers, not my local machine.
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Old 08-24-2004, 06:54 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I use outlook..can accept any size and any type of attachments....plus if i need to check it from anywhere I can also do it webbased.
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Old 08-24-2004, 07:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I use a good, non-HTML-rendering, e-mail client with serious filtering capabilities. Webmail is strictly secondary.
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Old 08-24-2004, 07:32 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I use a good, non-HTML-rendering, e-mail client with serious filtering capabilities. Webmail is strictly secondary.
Seriously.
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Old 08-24-2004, 08:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
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eh... anyway i can stay in communication... if that means it's a client like outlook... then that's what works for the moment.

sometimes it's AOL, sometimes it's web based.

depends on the need and what i'm who i'm trying to communicate with.
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Old 08-24-2004, 09:13 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I primarily use my accounts through my domains. Both have web interfaces for all 6-7 current accounts on them but I usually use kmail on knoppix 3.2, beats the hell out of any windows client I have used. MS O--l--k is a just another windows virus promptly removed from my system immediately after every reinstall.
I do have a fastmail.fm account as backup which is by far the best web-based option out there in my opinion.
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Old 08-24-2004, 09:22 PM   #10 (permalink)
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My school's email is web-based, althought I could use outlook with it if I chose to... Then gmail is of course web-based. I prefer web-based because I like being able to access all of my accounts and emails from any computer when I need to. But then, I'm all over campus checking my emails, so it just makes more sense with my lifestyle. Plus I dislike outlook because it's a microsoft product that has caused my microsoft office to crash when I'm not even using outlook... I guess the only reason I don't like microsoft very much is due to how many huge lab writeup files I've had corrupted or lost (forcing me to start over at the last minute) due to something in either their OS or within Office crashing or causing errors...
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Old 08-25-2004, 12:09 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Quote:
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I use a good, non-HTML-rendering, e-mail client with serious filtering capabilities. Webmail is strictly secondary.
mh?

I use Thunderbird at home, and at work I use mh.. although lately I've been using/modify the uni's webmail client.. which is Imp.
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Old 08-25-2004, 12:59 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I have various accounts with my ISP, gmail and yahoo. All have options for webmail if I'm away, but at home I access them all using Thunderbird.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:16 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Neither. I use Eudora. Has a kickass iterative junk filter and isn't vulnerable to a lot of Outlook's weaknesses.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:16 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I use webmail. I have no address books. This way, any virus that hits my inbox and isn't taken out by antivirus won't spread. It's just inconvenient to use a local client, and every time a new virus shows up, it irritates me to see that all of the school's administrators and important staff members (dean, chancellor, director of student life, etc.) have the "all students" addresses for the listserv in the address book, meaning that he virus gets sent to everyone in the school. That's the big reason I don't use any sort of local client.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:24 AM   #15 (permalink)
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I forward my email from my school to my friend's server, and then I can either POP or use the webmail interface he has set up (squirrel mail).
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:30 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Just recently switched from web based to Outlook. I think I enjoyed the web based more...
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:46 AM   #17 (permalink)
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I use Mailwasher Pro, which I HIGHLY recommend! It allows me to check my messages off the mail server without downloading them to my computer. It has several built-in spam tools, which seem to be very effective. I honestly don't receive more than MAYBE 1-2 pieces of spam a week. Once I screen my incoming messages, Mailwasher sends the mail to Outlook.

Firetrust (which makes Mailwasher) also has a program called Benign that checks each incoming email message for potentially malicious HTML code and stuff like that. It strips out any unnecessary code and delivers the message. It does all that in the background. You just modify the settings to what you want and let it do it thing.

I'm sorry if I went a little off topic, but I thought you should all know about these programs.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:54 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Outlook 2003 on my PC. Entourage 2004 on my 12" powerbook. My webmail and gmail when I don't have access to my pc or powerbook.
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Old 08-25-2004, 06:44 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Outlook can make your computer vulnerable to certain hacks and viruses. Of course, so can IE to access your web-based mail, so I guess it's a wash.

I answered web-based.....and I don't use IE to check my mail. Actually, I don't use IE, with the exception of work tasks, and only because I have to.
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Old 08-25-2004, 08:04 AM   #20 (permalink)
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I don't like using webmail for the most part - I prefer knowing that my mail is backed up onto my machine, in whatever format I choose, and I can manipulate it however I want.

Plus I have over a gig of saved e-mail from work, various contracts, school, friends, security mailing lists, so that makes it kind of hard to use a webmail solution.
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Old 08-25-2004, 08:39 AM   #21 (permalink)
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i've used yahoo before and I like it even better now that they've upped to the storage

my college's email system is web-based
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Old 08-25-2004, 10:14 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Web based email is where technology is heading these days. As already mentioned, most "outlook" based emails are even adding web interfaces. Most email systems without remote access are antiquated now. My main email is yahoo-based. My Army email can be accessed via the web as well.
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Old 08-25-2004, 10:15 AM   #23 (permalink)
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I use both. I have about 7 accounts using Outlook. Three of them are also accessible through a web-based interface.

One is for work and I have to use the Outlook web access when at home because the firewall doesn't allow access from outside using POP. The others are handy when I don't have my computer. I can use any other computer and leave the mail on the server to fetch to my computer later with Outlook.

Sometimes, when I connect my laptop to my friend's LAN, his ISP won't forward my mail, so I am thankful I have a web-based account to use.
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Old 08-25-2004, 11:37 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Thunderbird, but I do use the Gmail webbased interface
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Old 08-25-2004, 11:53 AM   #25 (permalink)
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I use Outlook 2K3.
I also use Yahoo on the rare occasion.
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Old 08-25-2004, 02:26 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Outlook gives you more control over how the email can be formatted. I will give credit to the new Outlook Web Access 2003, it is almost like the full client version.
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Old 08-25-2004, 02:59 PM   #27 (permalink)
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yahoo.ca for me, got a hotmail account for all the spam stuff, never use my isp accounts. use xnews for newsgroups.
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Old 08-25-2004, 03:04 PM   #28 (permalink)
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I use both, but more often Outlook.
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Old 08-25-2004, 05:33 PM   #29 (permalink)
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I use both, but I voted for web based since I'm loving gmail!
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Old 08-25-2004, 06:09 PM   #30 (permalink)
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gmail and outlook web access (web based)
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Old 08-25-2004, 06:17 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Outlook, since I can config it for multiple html as well as pop accounts.

When I am on the road I can use the nearest web cafe.
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Old 08-25-2004, 06:18 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Ximian Evolution.

For the Anti-Linuxites out there, it's a Linux outlook clone, basically, but without all the swiss cheese security.
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Old 08-25-2004, 07:30 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I've been using Yahoo for at least 4 years now and I've always been happy with it. My SO who says he gets over a hundred emails a day says it wouldn't have enough storage for him. I love always being able to access my email.
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Old 08-25-2004, 10:18 PM   #34 (permalink)
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I second ratbastid's support of Evolution - I use it on my laptop, and Outlook 2003 on my desktop. Outlook 2k3 has some fairly decent security - supported by the fact that I disabled preview pane and HTML/Rich Text e-mail, embedded images, blah blah. Plain text is the way to go
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Old 08-25-2004, 10:20 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Good old Entourage for me.
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