My reason is the simplicity and the beautiful Apple user interface.
Outlook has tons of button, Mail has the ones I need. It simple and effective. Downloads my email every 2 minutes and displays them with elegance.
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Outlook has tons of button, Mail has the ones I need. It simple and effective. Downloads my email every 2 minutes and displays them with elegance.
good thread!
i often change between using mail app and gmail. i really like using the gmail notifier so really my inbox is just two clicks away. its nice not to have a separate program always running in the dock too although g notifier does take a little bit of RAM.
another thing i like about gmail is that if i send a message to somebody it automatically saves their email address in the contacts. it does a similar thing in mail app but where does it save it too! not the address book?
the threading in gmail is far superior to that in mail, i like to see what I've replied in the conversation too!
the search in gmail is also a lot better, it searches EVERY email not like in mail where it will only search whatever inbox/folder you are currently in.
if only mail had the archive feature of gmail. a simple button to move it too another folder. i've hunted the internet to try and make some kind of plugin with no success
Gmail this week! maybe mail next
very true
i often change between using mail app and gmail. i really like using the gmail notifier so really my inbox is just two clicks away. its nice not to have a separate program always running in the dock too although g notifier does take a little bit of RAM.
another thing i like about gmail is that if i send a message to somebody it automatically saves their email address in the contacts. it does a similar thing in mail app but where does it save it too! not the address book?
the threading in gmail is far superior to that in mail, i like to see what I've replied in the conversation too!
the search in gmail is also a lot better, it searches EVERY email not like in mail where it will only search whatever inbox/folder you are currently in.
if only mail had the archive feature of gmail. a simple button to move it too another folder. i've hunted the internet to try and make some kind of plugin with no success
Gmail this week! maybe mail next
very true