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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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 Re: Desktop or web-based email?Submitted by bigfatdummy on December 14, 2007 - 11:24am.
I read my business email in Outlook 2007 and personal email in gmail. I have really worked hard to separate a personal emails from anything related to work. I very rarely check my business email from home (via owa2003) but I check my personal email a few times a day while at work. I shuffle between a desktop XP computer at work and a Ubuntu laptop and Macbook pro. Web based email is the only solution that makes sense for me. » POSTED IN:
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