I've always been an OE user. Then 2k3 came along, used it at work and got hooked on the scheduling. A few months ago it was taking ridiculously long to sync with hotmail and often times freezing (everythings always up to date).

Reverted back to Outlook Express and then for some reason started using Thunderbird. Thunderbird was great with teh WebMail extension and syncing with gmail, hotmail, and the rest of my accts was quick and fast. Every few weeks, however, i ALWAYS receive the "negative vibes" error msg. I think its a MS thing because once the new hotmail/webmail extension comes out everything is fine and dandy.

Anyone else have similar experiences? Suggestions on clients? It is essential that I be able to sync with hotmail -- legacy accts from 1996/7ish.

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so thats what thunderbird is!

 

what?

 

Give Eudora a shot. There is a free version that gives you ads. There is a pay version that doesn't. :hint:

 

Forced to use Outlook 2003 here at work and ya know what, it works great. Since were on a large domain that requires all the mapi shit and collaboration Tbird wouldn't cut it.

 

I just got upgraded to Outlook 2K3 at work and I love it. Definitely the best mail program I have ever used by far

 

I used to hate outlook, but 2k3 seems to really be a great product overall.

 

I use Thunderbird for most email accounts but Outlook 2K3 for business purposes.

Quick question though:
How do you configure Outlook to check for mail automatically when you start the program?

I hate to click "Send/Receive" everytime I start the program to download mail...

 

If you are in Exchange mode just make sure Outlook is in online mode and not offline. In the lower right corner of the Outlook window click the outlook icon. Turn off the check box for work offline.

 

 

Click on that send/recieve button and check the automatically check ever 5minutes box.

 

i used outlook 2k3 for a long while but i find that the longer you use it the slower it gets and the longer it takes to synch with imap.

thunderbird always loads instantly and synchs instantly, but lacks the features i like about 2k3.

still...speed prevails and i use thunderbird

 

i've used outlook for a while and at work that's what we use coz of exchange server. what impresses me with 2k3 is the layout and the search features. even on my Mac i use Entourage (Mac's version of outlook). i'd rather use Mail or thunderbird but unfortunately my Treo 650 won't let me. my PDA uses categories for the contacts and i've grown accustom to them. Entourage and outlook are the only two email clients i have that support it

i've played with thunderbird and what i love about it is the RSS support. also, if you know perl, you can pretty much make it do anything. what i don't like is you can't create a rule that deletes messages if the age is older than "x" hours. they only have "x" days. but perl will fix that, once i learn it