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Re:.mail app by reddiric on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @02:23PM (#4292261)
> The true innovator in the e-mail space has been GMail, which has brought things like autosave,

Small nit, Outlook 2003 had AutoSave. GMail was publicly introduced in 2004.

> embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder

That's the "Inbox"

> embracing that tagging is better than folders.

I'm pretty sure that Outlook has had categories (the color-coded custom named things that can be multiply applied to emails) since 2000ish.

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Re:.mail app by nailer on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:19PM (#4292529)
>> embracing the fact that it is not truly productive to file every single e-mail into a purposeful folder

>That's the "Inbox"

In Outlook terms it's search folders.

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Re:.mail app by aimatt on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @02:32PM (#4292302)
Someone loves Outlook
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Re:.mail app by hussam on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:06PM (#4292456)
I'm a dedicated GMail user, but I think it's good to give credit where credit is due.

Autosave was definitely not first in GMail. Thunderbird also allowed messages to be sorted by thread a while back (which you could argue was a rough precursor to GMail's conversation view).

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Re:.mail app by ericingram on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:55PM (#4292700)
I really like Outlook. I switched to Gmail this year because I wanted free e-mail and Gmail is easier to configure. But, as a client, I enjoyed Outlook much more than I do Gmail.
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Re:.mail app by mike-cardwell on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:16PM (#4293097)
So why don't you just point Outlook at GMail?
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