jharrelson
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I am curious why anyone needs an external email program like Outlook Express...
In the past year or so I have seen several postings about people using EEPs ..(External Email Programs).. and my curiousity has finally got the best of me...
Would someone please tell me what Outlook, Outlook Express, or any other EEP can do, that my regular email companies cannot.. Maybe I'm missing something that could be useful.
Not putting it down folks .. just don't understand why people feel they need one...
I currently have email accounts with Juno, Google, Net Zero, AT&T and Yahoo ..... and in the past I have used AOL, Bell South, Netscape and a couple of others I can't remember off hand ...
Many years ago ..( late 80s or early 90s ? ).. I played around with both Outlook and Outlook Express and could not find anything they could do that my regular email programs could not do..
Google ... Bell South ... Juno ... Net Zero ... AOL ... Yahoo ... AT&T ... Netscape, ............ etc.... nor any other email service I have ever heard of, needs an external mail program for it to work ...
They all have their own email system which allows you to .... Compose, Read, Send, Receive, Store, Print, Copy, Save, Attach, ..... etc ... etc...
And some of them like Juno and Yahoo allow you to "Embed" things like photos and charts ...etc... right into the body of the email instead of having to send them as an attachment..
Once again, Please don't misunderstand... I'm not knocking Outlook Express or the other EEPs, just don't understand why anyone needs an external email system...
If I could find just one thing that Outlook or Outlook Express can do that my present email programs cannot, I just might try them out once again..
After all, no one is ever to smart or too old to learn something new...
Thanks,
John
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The moral: Sometimes putting in your two cents worth makes a difference.
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Jay Pat
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You got me thinking. At my home desktop and laptop, I use Outlook Express and I'm a "casual" computer user. I may not be using the computer to its maximum ability.
I find OE receives/sends automatically in the background without me doing anything. That's a plus for me.
When I look at the emails, they are on my computer (I think) and it seems, I can look around at the different emails very fast. Attachments take a little more time.
At work on the bosses computer, I look at email online and it takes time for the computer to load up as I change to the inbox or delete items, send, etc.
You just use what you have or used to.
Pat
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RoadAbode
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I Tend to agree with you, with the exception of a few areas (I love my Gmail)
In the Enterprise, my users have some 3rd party applications that are able to integrate the Outlook API into their product. This is interconnectivity not possible with a webmail interface.
The interconnectivity of the Outlook 2007 email interface with calendering, and task sharing and the ability to share that easily with other users in the Enterprise can't be replicated with the other interfaces you mention. (Although Google is coming close with Google Apps)
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jharrelson
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Thanks Pat... That makes sense... except for when you say...
I find OE receives/sends automatically in the background without me doing anything.
I understand about OE "Receiving" incoming emails automatically in the background .. all of my email programs do that also..
But you lost me on the "Sends" automatically in the background..
After I have finished typing an email and am ready to "Send" it ... I have to click the "Send Button"
Are you saying that OE knows when you are through typing and will automatically send the email without you having to click a "Send Button" ..?
But what if you want to proof read your letter first or change some words around and maybe add another sentence to the email ...
how can you do that if OE automatically starts sending the letter when you are finished typing..?
Or am I not understanding what you are saying..
I admit that I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box.. 
Thanks,
John
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BenK
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In the 'old' days, the allotted memory for a browser based email account was
very limiting *AND* only simple text.
No pictures, no embedded attachments. Some no attachments.
Not so today. Browser based has a much richer and larger memory allotments.
But they still do not have as many features and functions as a stand alone
email utility.
Since MS bundles everything together and is how/why they won the desktop wars.
This also allows the baddies to utilize that tightly bundles command structure.
I used to work for Sun Microsystems and lived and died under Solaris (BSD Unix
and/or Linux for reference)
Laid off and now on my own using Windoz. There is a world of differences in a
poorly architected OS in reference to permissions and file structure.
In a browser email try to file something into another non-xyz folder on 'your'
machine. Can't be done from any that I've touched.
I have several throwaway accounts and find that gmail is one of the better ones.
Though Yahoo is coming back strong (Bartz really making a good turn for them).
As you have noticed, the gap is closing, but then the external email programs
are not sitting still either.
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jharrelson
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Hi Mike... so you are saying that OE on your computer syncs with several other computers that have OE installed on them..
I'm guessing you are talking about a closed system in your enterprise and not a computer on the Internet across on the other side of the country ..?..
That would be a nice touch if I had several other computers and were working on a closed system instead of the WWW...
Thanks for the info, I learned something new..
John
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Jay Pat
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I hit "send" and the "send" process happens without me seeing it happening. I go directly to the next email without any visible waiting time for the computer to "send" the message. To watch the message being sent I can click on send/receive to watch the message being loaded up. I hope I said that right.
Pat
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jharrelson
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Jay Pat wrote:I hit "send" and the "send" process happens without me seeing it happening. I go directly to the next email without any visible waiting time for the computer to "send" the message. To watch the message being sent I can click on send/receive to watch the message being loaded up. I hope I said that right.
Pat
ahah .. now I understand, that's what my email programs do also..
I just hit the send button and ... poooof... it is sent and the next email comes up for me to read..
Thanks Pat,,, that makes more sense..
John
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camperbuds3
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I use Outlook Express not because I "need" to. Just because I do.
I have two e-mail accounts: one strictly for conducting personal business and one for everything else which may attract a lot of spam.
Why do you currently have a need for 5 different e-mail accounts?
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Garry P
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For people who have more than one email account (I have 4 with two providers--gmail and yahoo), OE can be configured to collect all of your email at one shot from all providers. That means I don't have to go to 2 or 3 browser based sites to read all my mail. A real advantage for my money.
Another advantage is that all my email resides on my pc and not on the web where I would need a connection to read and reply to it. I simply and automatically bring all my email to my laptop where I can read it and reply to whenever I want. Then next time I find a connection all my email will automatically be sent when I open OE.
Another advantage is that I can sort the emails and store any that I deem important enough to keep in personally configured folders in OE.
All these things make email a pleasure for me to deal with and I would not consider using only a brower based set up.
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