Guide to Leaving your Mac

Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac by busterarm on Friday December 27, 2013 @09:58PM (#6973687)

I don't know. Mail.app does a lot of things that are pretty nonsensical. It's easily the buggiest OS X app that I use b y about 10 to 1. I'm not saying Thunderbird is an alternative though. For all the grief that Microsoft deserves, Outlook is far and away the best mail application I've ever used, baring stupid quirks of PST/OST files (especially when it comes to Calendar). That's like the one application that Microsoft has completely nailed.

I WISH there were a better alternative.

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Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac by adrianpike on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:56PM (#6974006)

Is there a reason browser-based doesn't work for you? I moved to gmail only a few years ago and haven't looked back.

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Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac by busterarm on Saturday December 28, 2013 @12:08AM (#6974033)

I'm trying to move away from Google services. I've had gmail accounts a long time, but am moving towards self-hosting.

Such services can be alright for low-use personal email. Where they break down and where Outlook excels is high volumes of mail.

I've had jobs where between automated emails from server monitors, lists I was on and the high volume of discussion we had dropped 900-1200 emails in my Inbox every day. Outlook is the only application that makes that manageable...and I can save all of my mail and quickly search and access all of it.

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