Anyone using something better than Outlook for mail???

[Mitchell Andrus]

I'm tired of the hassle. It rarely follows the 'rules' for filtering and more often than not I'm moving mail into my inbox rather than out of it. It's sometime hit or miss for applying my sig...

I'd rather not use my Gmail account for business.

Is there a 'Better Outlook'?

[David G Baker]

Yahoo has worked very well for me for over 10 years but it is similar to Gmail. I had Outlook for a while but had problems with it so I dumped it after several trys at fixing the problems.
Most ISPs provide e-mail service if you are concerned about the e-mail address looking generic.
I do my composition in Word then e-mail through Yahoo.

[Larry Browning]

Mozilla Thunderbird. It is email only though. No, calandar, task list manager, etc. But email is great! Best of all it is open source and FREE. It is from the folks who do Firefox.

[Thomas Bank]

Another vote for Thunderbird - I'm forced to use a PC at work (OSX Mail at home) and quickly ditched Outlook due to frustration.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

There are a few things I wished that it did better, but nothing can be perfect for everyone.

[Frank Hagan]

I'm tired of the hassle. It rarely follows the 'rules' for filtering and more often than not I'm moving mail into my inbox rather than out of it. It's sometime hit or miss for applying my sig...

I'd rather not use my Gmail account for business.

Is there a 'Better Outlook'?

I also use Thunderbird, which has pretty good email filtering by itself, but route all my email, from all accounts, through Gmail. Google applies their superior (IMO) junk mail filtering to all messages. You can set Gmail to route the mail, maintaining the Reply-to header so that it looks like it comes from your ISP or domain mail server.

[Duane McGuire]

You obviously know that Gmail is wonderful. There are a number of options for using Gmail but presenting a more professional image in your email address. I use Googles "apps for domains": http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Thus I can have multiple accounts within my own domain (duanemcguire.com). The outside world doesn't know I'm using gmail, but I have all the advantages of gmail in my world.

[Kevin Arceneaux]

Another Thunderbird user. Easy to use. I just got my computer at the new job and was informed by the IT folks that due to the way their email is set-up I cannot use it. Though they did let me install Firefox.

[Chuck Wintle]

Ditto for Thunderbird here. was using Outlook for a long time but quickly found out thunderbird works a lot better.

[Jerome Hanby]

I used Eudora for years. Finally bit the bullet and switched to GMAIL just to avoid all the hassles of future potential moves and ISP changes. These days every email program I touch seems inferior compared to GMAIL.

[Scott Shepherd]

Thunderbird as well. Works very well.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Thunderbird

Outlook poses a constant vulnerability to attack online

[Roger Fournier]

Another Thunderbird user here. I use it both at home and at work. Not a lot of bells and whistles but it works VERY well.

[glenn bradley]

Another Thunderbird user. I use it to front-end the Oracle suite but it seems to work well with many products.

P.s. I have worked one place that had a good Exchange/Outlook implementation but we had a team of 5 that did nothing else but administer it. I wish it worked that way on its own.

[Eric DeSilva]

I also use Thunderbird, which has pretty good email filtering by itself, but route all my email, from all accounts, through Gmail. Google applies their superior (IMO) junk mail filtering to all messages. You can set Gmail to route the mail, maintaining the Reply-to header so that it looks like it comes from your ISP or domain mail server.

+1 on thunderbird and
+1 on letting Gmail do your filtering

I was pretty happy with Thunderbird's filtering for my non-biz account, but when I got an iphone, it didn't have junk email filtering and my phone was continually junked up with spam. I ended up setting up a Gmail account, having it pull the mail off my pop3 server, and set it up so everything looks like it comes in and out of my other account. Works like a charm, although I do occasionally have to go to the pop3 server w/Tbird and delete all the junk.

[Dennis Peacock]

I'm using Windows Live Mail and like it a lot better than Outsnook...I mean Outlook.