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More email gmail thunderbird outlook blues

Last month I moved from Thunderbird back to Outlook because Thunderbird didn't seem powerful enough, and later I tried Gmail as my primary mail client, but noted a couple of deal-breakers, figuring I had to settle for Outlook after all, with Qurb added to block more spam than Outlook catches with its (generally good) junk mail filters. However Outlook takes forever to download mail, and it's slower still with Qurb installed.

I was blown away by Google Calendar, which I'm using instead of Outlook's, so it made even more sense to use Gmail. At the moment, I'm trying a Gmail/Thunderbird combination, plus Google Calendar. Contact management is still best in Outlook, but I'm seeing how well I can do with Gmail's approach and a few other utilities for other stuff (e.g. Backpack for reminders and for notes). Despite a low-level nagging concern about putting my data on machines I don't control, I'm getting into the web-as-operating-system thin client approach, and figuring if anybody can pull it off, Google and 37signals can.

Why am I also using Thunderbird? I still need something other than Gmail to correspond with email lists and to send rich-text (i.e. html) emails (unless I create 'em in Gmail).

This isn't over; I'm still not sure I have the right combination for my modus operandi, which includes a heavy and persistent flow of information, much of it in various email streams.

jon posted this at 11:56 AM
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And so it goes... dealing with email remains a headache. I switched from Outlook to Thunderbird, but I am not very happy. I work from multiple email accounts, and filters in Thunderbird apply per email account.

Over-all integration of the basic communication and PIM functions remains a distant Grail...

be well Jon!

Posted by: Michael | June 8, 2006 1:37 AM