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Students don't have office jobs. Get a real job and suddenly things like Outlook or TB make a lot of sense. Webmail is ultimately overly limiting compared to a
by drzaiusapelord 9y ago
Students don't have office jobs. Get a real job and suddenly things like Outlook or TB make a lot of sense. Webmail is ultimately overly limiting compared to a native client for many common work-related use cases. Not to mention, your phone email app is an email client.
I like to think of myself as being minimalist and flexible in some ways, but if I started a company tomorrow I could see myself springing for Outlook running the front end for a postfix/dovecot server just for the convenience.
- jamesgeck0 9y agoWhat sorts of use cases? My Thunderbird experience doesn't mirror this at all. I've found setting up complex filters to be easier to set up in Gmail. Gmail's search is also much faster and it's results more relevant with huge mailboxes. Gmail also lets you create calendar events from keywords in messages, which Lightning didn't do last time I used it, iirc. I admittedly haven't used Lightning very much; I found that syncing Google Calendars in Thunderbird had a nasty tendency to lock up the app.
- nucleardog 9y agoNine year veteran of "real office jobs". There was a one or two year stint with Thunderbird, but otherwise it's all been Gmail's web interface and Android app. Exactly what work use cases have I been missing out on?