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  • I have to IMAP, we don't have internet all the time, so having a local copy is helpful

  • mikhomikho Member, Host Rep

    @subigo
    Only used IMAP (actually IMAPS) was integrating a helpdesk system that required IMAPS.

  • @MrLawoodle said: You have to be rather stupid to still be using POP3.

    I don't use either. I haven't used an email client since Gmail was released. I already have a browser installed on all of my devices, no need to install another piece of software.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran

    @subigo said: no need to install another piece of software.

    How would you be alerted to urgent e-mails?

  • /closed the tab. see next time, Bill. It's hard to catch your capcha, i'm just human being, let me in ;D

  • @serverbear : same with you, i've tried IE-7 and Chrome. They should place it on the right below, hope so.

  • @jarland said: How would you be alerted to urgent e-mails?

    I've just used browser extensions forever. Before Chrome, I used Firefox with a checker and now I use this:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apebebenniibdlpbookhgelaghfnaonp

  • PatsPats Member

    @jcaleb said: my firstname.surname is already taken =(

    mine too :(

  • If we create/change the email to new one, will the old one still receiving the email to it?

  • Just saw this :

    Here are a few other things to keep in mind:
    
        Email sent to your old address will still go to your account.
        Remember to always sign in with your new address; you won't be able to sign in with your old one.
        If you'd like to stop receiving mail sent to your old address, just delete that address in account services.
  • gianggiang Veteran

    @ErawanArifNugroho said: If we create/change the email to new one, will the old one still receiving the email to it?

    Just create an alias, this way is easier :D

  • When they finally decide to let me use my real name with my account, I might consider properly checking their services out. Apparently my name still contains inappropriate words.

    The interface does look refreshing but it's just a new paintjob on an old car from what I was able to see so far.

  • @subigo said: I don't use either. I haven't used an email client since Gmail was released. I already have a browser installed on all of my devices, no need to install another piece of software.

    I use the GMail client on my phone :3

  • I use my phone for most emails too, the Gmail/Android (4.x) is sweet. Although the outlook.com ui is very nice, i don't see myself moving

  • Looks good but I don't use MSN/Windows Live as my primary email. Waiting for a Yahoo Mail redesign (simplificated).

  • rskrsk Member, Patron Provider

    @subigo said: And people still use desktop clients for email?

    I do :P

  • @juan_144 If you're using Yahoo you'll be waiting quite a while...

    I saw this, it looks great! But I'm happy with Gmail and I have so many e-mail accounts tied to it, people used to using it, etc, that making a new one would just be unnecessary.

  • @Ivraatiems yes but while that happens I use Zimbra Desktop.

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    Can somebody take a screenshot of the "new" interface? I've tried everything but all I see is the default OWA theme. :(

  • @KuJoe said: Can somebody take a screenshot of the "new" interface? I've tried everything but all I see is the default OWA theme. :(

    It looks just like the screenshots in the blog and video:

    http://i.imgur.com/68kBq.png

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    That's what I thought, I wish mine looked like that. :(

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @KuJoe said: That's what I thought, I wish mine looked like that. :(

    just enter with outlook.com and it works... worked on mine and registered my nuckname

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep
    edited August 2012

    @netomx I tried that but it keeps redirecting me to login.live.com, I guess it's a setting of the domain owner (school e-mail). :(

  • Try to logout, and relogin to hotmail :)

  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    No luck. :(

  • Hm.. Or maybe stay open/login with hotmail.com, and try to open outlook.com

  • Does anyone know about current Microsoft policy about using open protocols? For me, an email address is not only an address on which I'll receive mails, its also what I use to chat. For that matter, it's really important that the chat uses open protocol, and Gmail uses XMPP, so I'm still able to use that ID wherever I am. One day, I had a contact that had only hotmail and wanted to chat with me, and I was on mobile and that was impossible. At the end, he said he had a Facebook account that was not used, and because Facebook also used XMPP, we could talk on Facebook without hassle. That's why I avoid closed protocols like hotmail, Skype, ... whatever the UI looks like and whatever great features are promised.

    Thanked by 1TheHackBox
  • the look also like the new Azure interface...

  • ... And apart from protocol, it's not quite "Modern experience for modern browsers and devices". I can't drag-n-drop a file to add as attachment. Still far behind Gmail.

  • @DotMG said: At the end, he said he had a Facebook account that was not used, and because Facebook also used XMPP, we could talk on Facebook without hassle.

    What!? Yes I know, GTalk is based on XMPP and Facebook chat uses a XMPP type front end for the chat feature but both services do nothing when you try to add a contact from the adversary network.

    Federation blocked? May be.

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