New Email Client
I am looking for a new email client to replace WLM. I am using Windows 7. I hope U can get some recommendations. I don't want to use web maul and I don't want to use Outlook. I am not a power user. I ...
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Sam Spade wrote:
As a practical matter, both types of email systems require Internet CONNECTIVITY to work.
I guess it depends on what you want from your mail service. For example, I don't need to have the mailman standing at my door handing my mail to me in order to read it. He can drop it off, leave, and then I can read it at my leisure without him standing on my front step. Or I can keep it around where I can refer to it when he isn't at my door to hand it to me.
Do we require connectivity to send and receive email? Certainly. Do PC-based clients offer services beyond the send/receive function that are desirable when no connection is available? Yes they do. Does everyone need those services. Definitely not.
I use both kinds. Gmail for my personal and Outlook for work. I still file things on Gmail but nothing so important that I might need access when the Internet isn't available. My work is different because there are many times I don't want to connect to the VPN (which allows my Outlook to connect to the Exchange server) because then people will know I am "available". In these cases I often use the mail I have filed away in my local Outlook folders.
Dave
