ultimate99 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 How many of you guys think that Mail app in win8 is total disappointment? This app greatly lacks features to be a main/default email client. What do you guys think? I believe it has potential, but it all depends on those MS develops. What do you guys use in win8, other than web client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerFan Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Yes, the Win8 mail app is utterly useless. I use Outlook 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guth Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I use it as my main email client :huh: all i do is read emails and send maybe 2 a week though :laugh: Good enough for me and I love the notifications, which is the reason I use it Dunkleybwoy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreadAbort Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 What features do you believe are important to add? Let's try to be constructive. I use Outlook at work. And I find that sending simple mail with the application at home works fine for me. I have Exchange (Active Sync) work and gmail hooked up and I don't have any issues. Dunkleybwoy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Yes, the Win8 mail app is utterly useless. I use Outlook 2013. Not *utterly useless* - just useless if you need POP3 support. (The Mail app *does* support both IMAP and Exchange ActiveSync.) I also use Outlook 2013 - however, I used Outlook 2010 before that *because* of the IMAP support being as hands-free as the POP3 support - even with GMail. (That can't be said about most e-mail applications; the fact that it's true of Outlook has to be driving Google crazy.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 12, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 12, 2013 What features do you believe are important to add? Let's try to be constructive. I use Outlook at work. And I find that sending simple mail with the application at home works fine for me. I have Exchange (Active Sync) work and gmail hooked up and I don't have any issues. LDAP, for when you know someone's name in your org/company, but not their e-mail address. A tab for composition, so that if you need to look up some detail from a prior e-mail while composing a message, you don't need to save the current composition as a draft, close it, find the other e-mail and look up the info, then re-open the draft to continue writing. Folder management for IMAP accounts; I want to choose which folders to subscribe to and have in the list. One of my IMAP servers spits out 600+ folders, and I have no choice but to have them sit in that left-hand pane. I just want to subscribe to a few, but I have no options for doing so. Sort messages list by collapsible date, like Outlook. I want to have all of my messages downloaded and available, but the list becomes huge. I want to be able to collapse everything a month or older. Fix the threaded conversation bug. When a conversation gets above a certain number of messages, replying grinds the app to a halt or crashes it. Right now, the only solution is to either continually start new conversations with a different subject line, or reply with Outlook or Webmail if the thread gets too long. Option to compose in plain text. Because I just want to write my e-mails in plain text. BeerFan 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviate_X Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 How many of you guys think that Mail app in win8 is total disappointment? This app greatly lacks features to be a main/default email client. What do you guys think? I believe it has potential, but it all depends on those MS develops. What do you guys use in win8, other than web client? It simple clean and to the point, if you want more capability then there are many many many alternatives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnporter29 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Using it as my main client here too, no issues with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted January 13, 2013 Member Share Posted January 13, 2013 It's good for accessing GMail, reading, dashing off a quick response. For more serious management I fire up Thunderbird. But it's fine for light use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kpo6969 Subscriber¹ Posted January 14, 2013 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 14, 2013 If it stays synced with your regular email account it does notify you of new emails like WLM did or still does till they kill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrikedOut Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 It wont connect to my Gmail account but then nor does Outlook 2013, just haven't had time to look into it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 14, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 14, 2013 It wont connect to my Gmail account but then nor does Outlook 2013, just haven't had time to look into it yet. Might need to activate IMAP access in Gmail settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrikedOut Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Might need to activate IMAP access in Gmail settings. Did that long ago as I had it working fine in Win 7 and Outlook 2010 but I have double checked. I will get around to figuring it out soon but right now more interested in Planetside 2! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 I use the Win8 Metro app for quick emails that I can't be assed starting Outlook 2013 for, but 99% of my work is done out of Outlook 2013. I mainly like the Metro app for the live tile :) Also, it's not useless. It does the job for a tablet email client, but it does need some more features (flags/categories etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evolution Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 You can't search by author in the app... Windows Live Mail works fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Main app here too. For how much I email, I don't need the wiz-bang features of more powerful corporate e-mailing programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siah1214 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 LDAP, for when you know someone's name in your org/company, but not their e-mail address. It has this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 16, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 16, 2013 It has this... How do I set it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siah1214 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 How do I set it up? Unless I'm thinking of something different, it set up automatically as soon as I joined my exchange account. I can type in a name, click "Search <organization>", and it will find all the people with that name. I didn't have to do anything special to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I haven't used it as my main email client since I went back to 7, but I ended up having to install WLMail because it couldn't handle conversations more than 4-5 replies long without freezing and crashing and needing a new conversation to be started every few replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganX Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Once you get familiar with it, it's OK for a free app. It's actually quite nice on the Surface. If you can, I haven't figured out how to flat emails, that sucks. It is limited, but useless, far from it. Not nearly as nice as the web based Outlook.com but it'll do. On the Surface it's good. On the desktop, I'd use outlook.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 16, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 16, 2013 Unless I'm thinking of something different, it set up automatically as soon as I joined my exchange account. I can type in a name, click "Search <organization>", and it will find all the people with that name. I didn't have to do anything special to make it work. No exchange account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Main app here too. For how much I email, I don't need the wiz-bang features of more powerful corporate e-mailing programs. Like being able to empty your Deleted Items? :laugh: I'll be much less frustrated when it catches up with the consumer feature set of Live Mail, the website, or even some of the doodads from WP7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted January 16, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted January 16, 2013 Maybe when it reaches feature-parity with Outlook Express... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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