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It’s always mainly about Excel, but some people are really set on Outlook, too.

Oh boy. Outlook users are in for a surprise with "New Outlook" is forced on them in the near future. Microsoft has been pushing and warning about this change for some time ....

I use outlook for work mails and tried new outlook for a short while. It’s like an alpha version, it’s not even close to feature parity, a pure showcase for a new design. If it ever becomes the only version, I’m switching to thunderbird.

I used the default Mail Microsoft Store app for the past 2 years at work. The past 6 months, it's been telling me to move to Outlook desktop app. A couple weeks ago, it wouldn't allow me to use the Microsoft Store app anymore, so I installed the desktop version, tried to login, and got an error message that my account would only work on the webapp.

Set up Thunderbird on my work desktop that day, and haven't looked back. Wish I would have way sooner, to be honest.

You inspired me, decided to set up Thunderbird and give it a week or so to see how it feels ;)

Hope it goes well!

Thanks, but I just switched back. Just far too bad performance (for my use case of ten-thousands of mails in subfolders), and as a bonus a spam filter that ignores actual spam, but marks real mails as spam consistently.

The interface is far nicer than outlook, but the performance is just too annoying for me.

Wino Mail is native and nice.

Oh, very cool. Thanks for sharing -- glad to know I have this option if I want to go back. Now that I have Thunderbird set up, I'll probably never use the UWP Mail and Calendar app or this Wino Mail app.

From my experience it is Excel first, PowerPoint second, followed by Outlook and, last, Word.

The order varies depending on what you do, each can become absolutely critical.

If some kind soul wants to point to an email client that has a capability like Outlook rules I'm dying to know about it. I have a mate whose business is entirely based on a big set of Outlook rules to do processing and there doesn't seem to be any good alternative.

Outlook online doesn't seem to have any rule capability and can't talk to 3rd party email servers.

You don't need an e-mail program for this if you are ready to work with Imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter

Awesome thank you will look into that

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