However, Outlook Express is a hell lot faster compared to Outlook. It is very light and fast. What is missing in Outlook Express is multi email account support. Yes, I know you could switch identity but if you are like me, you will be very disappointed. I have 4 domain and each of my domain would have at least 3 email address. That would translate to 12 emails. If you need to switch identity every five minutes, then it would be a big task and time consuming. I still believe that I would better do something else rather than keep switching identity every few minutes or so just to check my email.
On the other hand, Outlook is great. But it is heavy and resource hungry. I am 100% sure that the new Outlook 2007 could be worst. It has lots of unused goodies. Also, not to mention that it is expensive to certain extend. Why pay for something that is not used? Also, Outlook does not have Newsgroup support. Correct me if I am wrong.
Other email client available on the NET is catching up with Microsoft. However, I normally do not like the user interface very much. The philosophy behind the Graphical User Interface (GUI) just simply different. I know, Microsoft is not the best but we all are getting used to it. They are pretty consistent and persistent throughout any application. That is what I like. Some of the third party FREE eMail client is no doubt very good.
So, my eMail client should have these features:
- Must be light weight and fast. No excessive nonsense features which is unused most of the time.
- Must support multiple account. Preferably, multiple Inbox for easy sorting and administration. While you could get away by using filters, somehow I still believe that multiple Inbox should be the way to go for a lazy bum like me :)
- Newsgroup support. Newsgroup would be very useful in some cases but nowadays, not many of them is relevant. There are full of spam.
- Faster searching or old mail archive. Very useful when searching old email.
- It must be FREE in all sense. No advertisement. No nonsense additional stuff to the footer.
- It must support mass mailing or mailing list. Being a web hacker and web master, I need this feature. I want to sent my Newsletter probably once a week for marketing purposes. So, mailing list is a MUST have feature and of course a multiple list.
- Preferably a common standard for mail box like Unix mbox and its family.
- POP3 and IMAP4 support.
- Many more wishful list which would be very hard to come by....
