Outlook Express?
Of all things, looks like Outlook Express might accomplish some of what I need. That is, it does seem to open up folders with new messages. And the "download all messages" setting gives me a reasonable offline view. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of holes, as well:
Major Issues
- Inability to create folders-within-folders. OE just doesn't get it. It will read subfolders created by some other means, so I can always work around this. Annoying to lose the ability to create subfolders on the fly, though.
- Slow. Very. Notorious for opening and closing connections in a very un-IMAP way.
Minor Issues
- No new-mail notification on items in subfolders. Or at least, no reliable notification. No worse than the rest, here.
- No disconnected-mode support. Not a unique problem, by any means.
On balance, not clear that just opening folders outweighs the inconveniences. It's just a bit better than Outlook, and if things are that close, why not stick to the same program that houses my address book and calendar?
Comments
I've wanted to change from OE to something else for a while too now.
Mostly because of some annoying "bugs" I get.. Like if I do a Send/Retrieve, and get a new message header, then click on it to get the preview before the body is downloaded.. I sometimes get it marked as "deleted" and the message that "This email is no longer available on server" or something equal. When I go to the webinterface of my email.. It's marked "unread". I cannot delete it in OE either.. I need to delete it in the webmail or move it to another folder.
Also, when I check for mail.. I don't get 1 or 4 new emails.. I get new emails.. Every f** time... POP3 would have said.. You got 3 new mails (and that are those marked unread!).
These things annoys me enough to change client!
Posted by: Ronny Vårdal | December 12, 2003 6:45 PM