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Can I ask what it is you don't like about Outlook? I've been a regular Outlook user for many years, and honestly I'm pretty happy with it. My only real pain is

Can I ask what it is you don't like about Outlook? I've been a regular Outlook user for many years, and honestly I'm pretty happy with it. My only real pain is the lack of ability to easily export/import my mail accounts between machines, but that's something I do only every few years. I did run Thunderbird on a low-power laptop some years ago, and did like it, but at the time it was nowhere near feature parity with Outlook.

vetinari 6y ago
Not the OP, not I've disliked mostly the slowness, modality and UI. It also never seemed to be capable to find the mails I was looking for... unlike other mail clients. Compared to Apple Mail + Calendar + Contacts, it is a night-and-day.
fauigerzigerk 6y ago
I do use Outlook and it works pretty well, but: - No proper conversation view on desktop. - Filters (e.g unread) get disabled on every view change (including switching between mail and calendar) - The mobile client has no setting to stop it from marking messages as read upon changing focus to another message. - The message editor isn't really WYSIWYG. I often insert paragraph breaks that are gone in the sent message. - It's generally buggy, like everything Microsoft makes lately.
guiraldelli 6y ago
> Can I ask what it is you don't like about Outlook? The simple fact that it does not mark lines starting with '> ' as quoting is really off-putting. At work, my co-workers are getting convinced that in-line replies are much better, but if the author (me!) uses plain-text only, all the other Outlook users will have a hard time reading my emails. Actually, all about plain-text email is a pain in Outlook. I took more time to configure it (as good as it can) to send plain-text email, but now I read all my incoming emails as plain-text. And to make it quote with '> ' in the beginning and make it properly work was a hell. All in all, Outlook, to me, is the symbol of the Microsoft of the 1990s. Bonus: with External Editor [1], I can use Vim (or any other editor) to edit my emails in Thunderbird. No way I could ever do so on Outlook. [1]: https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor
- GordonS 6y ago
  Ha, yes, that is annoying actually! Instead it adds a kind of arrow-shaped bullet point. I always wondered why.

vetinari 6y ago

Not the OP, not I've disliked mostly the slowness, modality and UI. It also never seemed to be capable to find the mails I was looking for... unlike other mail clients. Compared to Apple Mail + Calendar + Contacts, it is a night-and-day.

fauigerzigerk 6y ago

I do use Outlook and it works pretty well, but: - No proper conversation view on desktop. - Filters (e.g unread) get disabled on every view change (including switching between mail and calendar) - The mobile client has no setting to stop it from marking messages as read upon changing focus to another message. - The message editor isn't really WYSIWYG. I often insert paragraph breaks that are gone in the sent message. - It's generally buggy, like everything Microsoft makes lately.

guiraldelli 6y ago

> Can I ask what it is you don't like about Outlook? The simple fact that it does not mark lines starting with '> ' as quoting is really off-putting. At work, my co-workers are getting convinced that in-line replies are much better, but if the author (me!) uses plain-text only, all the other Outlook users will have a hard time reading my emails. Actually, all about plain-text email is a pain in Outlook. I took more time to configure it (as good as it can) to send plain-text email, but now I read all my incoming emails as plain-text. And to make it quote with '> ' in the beginning and make it properly work was a hell. All in all, Outlook, to me, is the symbol of the Microsoft of the 1990s. Bonus: with External Editor [1], I can use Vim (or any other editor) to edit my emails in Thunderbird. No way I could ever do so on Outlook. [1]: https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor

GordonS 6y ago
Ha, yes, that is annoying actually! Instead it adds a kind of arrow-shaped bullet point. I always wondered why.