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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
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 Posted - 10 December 2004 : 15:13:43
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which one do you think it's overall better for security, message handling, speed, viewing attatchements. How do you guys handle email and address archiving/storage.
On average I seem to be reformating my system every 6 months and over the years I've lost a lot of emails addresses and messages (some due to crashes and some because of problems exporting etc...)
As I'm about to do it all again, I wouldn't mind getting your feedback on this. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 10 December 2004 : 17:04:33
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| I use Microsoft Outlook 2003 (used Outlook XP, Outlook 2000, Outlook 98 & Outlook 97 and also Outlook Express at one time, over the years). I've found it to be very reliable. You can archive your e-mails, or setup a personal folder on another drive (either physically in the machine, or on a network) to store your e-mails in if you need to reformat your main drive. |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 10 December 2004 : 17:38:41
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| I use MailWasher Pro to remove the spam, then Outlook 2003. This combo easily handles multiple inboxes and accounts for both send & receive. |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2004 : 18:00:08
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thanks guys :) just one more question
if "by chance"  you have two separate folders with emails in them (dbx) is there a way to merge them into one.
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 11 December 2004 : 19:13:57
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| At work I use Novell GroupWise, At home I use GMail... if I need to pop (which is very rare because email bores me) I use Outlook Express. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2004 : 20:08:44
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I use Mozilla Thunderbird.
What's Outlook? Sounds familiar... |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 11 December 2004 : 21:18:03
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| I use Outlook 2000 at home and Outlook 2002 at work. I guess I will move to Outlook 2003 soon, but been delaying the move because I have too many Access 2000 apps and I'm still not sure what may happen with them when I upgrade (of course, I will upgrade all the Office apps). |
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Jorrit787
Average Member
Netherlands
681 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2004 : 09:00:36
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quote:
Originally posted by zinpin
thanks guys :) just one more question
if "by chance" you have two separate folders with emails in them (dbx) is there a way to merge them into one.
I think that could be done by simply selecting all messages from one folder and moving them to the other  |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2004 : 13:44:42
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cheers Jorrit787 but that's not what I meant, what I wanted to ask is if you have two separate instances of outlook ie say you have a hd crush you replace your HD, reinstall, run outlook, pick your email then you manage to retrieve lost data from your original HD which means now you have two instances of outlook dbx messages...(sounds bloomin confusing I know )
Anyway I got that to work the import feature seems to handle that one quite easy.
From what I gather from this topic is that most people use Outlook as opposed to OE, what I would like to know is if this is out of choice or just because most people end up installing Office which automatically replaces OE with Outlook.
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2004 : 14:03:49
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Outlook allows you to open more than one .pst file, and then transfer contents from one file to the other.
Outlook is not simply an email app. It allows you to manage your schedule, tasks to be completed, text notes and such, so it offers a bit more functionality than Outlook Express. Personally I never used OE, just switched to Outlook from Netscape, when I bought my iPaq, since syncronization is possible between the iPaq and Outlook. |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
6493 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2004 : 20:26:06
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You can drag & drop email messages from an OE mailbox to a disk folder and vice-versa. Messages dragged out of OE become .eml files, and .eml files dragged from windows explorer to a mailbox becoma a message again.
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2004 : 04:50:33
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Outlook the proper for me - features like collaborative online meeting requests (using NetMeeting, livemeeting, etc), automatically updating schedules for other users when you move a meeting, shared calendars, etc make Outlook not just valuable but essential for organising all the global meetings I get!
With Outlook 2003, there is a wonderful new mode for some client-side cacheing - not absolutely sure how it works, but something to do with greatly reducing network chatter...
Spam-wise - use SpamBayes (d/l from sourceforge.net) which is a better-than-bayesian filtering for spam, with versions for many mail clients.
fyi I know the Office team are aware of Outlook's limitations and have done a lot of work on finding out how people work, so future versions (and this may be future with a big 'F') may depart from 'email client with extensions' to become a more integrated less clunky product |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
1075 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2004 : 05:42:56
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Outlook at work.
Paddy's right about it's usefulness for those working globally. I do with that it'd allow you to track more than 2 time zones in the calendar.
For personal stuff, it's web based mail. Yahoo, Gmail, and my hosting provider's web mail. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2004 : 05:48:54
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| I use Poco, mainlt because with the size of my mail file Outlook was getting very very slow, have been using Poco for about a year now and wouldn't change back for anything, if you want all the scheduling stuff, then they have a version calle Barca (I think) never used it though, my mail server has it's own scheduling/groupware plugin that I use. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2004 : 06:30:39
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Hey Huw - I've got 2 gigs of mail in Outlook (OK so it's a 180Meg mailbox on the server and the rest in local pst archives) and speed is no problem - if you did want to go back to outlook, there are some config things you may be able to do to speed it up :)
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Jorrit787
Average Member
Netherlands
681 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2004 : 06:50:01
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quote:
Originally posted by zinpin
cheers Jorrit787 but that's not what I meant, what I wanted to ask is if you have two separate instances of outlook ie say you have a hd crush you replace your HD, reinstall, run outlook, pick your email then you manage to retrieve lost data from your original HD which means now you have two instances of outlook dbx messages...(sounds bloomin confusing I know )
Ah I see what you mean - Should have read more carefully. You can indeed use the import feature for that  |
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