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Desktop or web-based email?
Mark J. Reeves | Dec 9 2007
After getting used to Gmail 3 years ago, I swore I'd stick to web-based email. With IMAP now available, I set it up last week in Apple's Mail client on my desktop to integrate better with offline storage, emailing links, etc, and found myself changing my ways. It wasn't easy: The initial download took forever and I had to work at getting Apple's Junk Filters to cooperate. (I.e., still work on the 2 POP accounts I check in Mail while leaving Gmail's already filtered mail alone). I'm a convert. I used to open a browser window with three tabs: Google homepage, RSS, and Gmail and check it throughout the day. Now I'm in Mail only when I need to be, and ignore RSS and news until it occurs to me to catch up. I did really like the Gmail interface, with conversations, shortcuts, etc, but I've been trying to make Safari my full-time browser and it wasn't playing nice. I've found a surge of productivity by sticking to the desktop. How do others find web-based vs. desktop email to impact their productivity? 55 Comments
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 I have hated Mail.app...Submitted by xfrosch on December 10, 2007 - 9:47am.
ever since it was unusably bad. I'm not really fond of Outlook either, although I'm forced into it on a daily basis for office email, which I try to (and usually can) keep segregated from personal email. Gmail is sloooooooooow. When I can, I like to use Thunderbird instead. "When I can" amounts to a dwindling minority of cases, though, and Gmail's builtin chat client often proves useful. » POSTED IN:
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