Email program, what to do

Ev0 · 24 Mar 2011 at 20:40

I'm slowly replacing my ageing desktop with my MBP for everything, and the next hurdle I've come across is how to handle my email on it.

Currently I'm using some pop3 accounts for email, so my options are either use the inbuilt Mail program or Outlook as I've got Office 2011 installed.

Also would another option to be to signup to something like google mail and have my domain mail go there (if that's possible)?

So which out of those do people prefer/do?

whitecrook · 24 Mar 2011 at 21:07

I just use the mail app

I have exchange account, imap accounts with my domain provider, gmail account, hotmail account, and some local mail accounts.

I just forward most of my personal domain email to my gmail account.

teknokid · 24 Mar 2011 at 22:24

I too just use the mail account - does everything I need and it's really easy to use.

StoutMeister · 28 Mar 2011 at 18:38

whitecrook said:
I just use the mail app

I have exchange account, imap accounts with my domain provider, gmail account, hotmail account, and some local mail accounts.

Same as the above. Enjoy!

[Olly] · 28 Mar 2011 at 19:24

+ 1 for inbuilt mail app, you could install Thunderbird but the built in one works just fine

Al Vallario · 28 Mar 2011 at 19:38

Outlook 2011 for Mac is exceptional. Obviously a bit more of a resource hog than Mail.app but much nicer looking, much more feature-packed, etc.

whitecrook · 28 Mar 2011 at 21:54

Al Vallario said:
Outlook 2011 for Mac is exceptional. Obviously a bit more of a resource hog than Mail.app but much nicer looking, much more feature-packed, etc.

Give me some examples, not trolling, just curious. I was going to install it for Work, and use mail.app for personal but have not done it yet.