Imap, gmail and outlook

[roxytoo]

I use gmail away from home and outlook at home. I prefer outlook at home for setting up folders etc . I have managed to set up labels in gmail that now correspond with outlook (10 years worth so has taken me ages!!) and am using imap to synch them

I have wanted to do this for so long and finally managed to do it but I am sooooooo diasppointed with the speed of the thing, it can take up to 3 seconds to delete an email and constanly hangs when synching. I have tired all the tricks, disabled add ons, just download headers but its still too slow.

Have looked at windows mail but it seems that has the same problem

What do other people use that works for them??

[kevsboredagain]

I also tried imap but with so many emails it just was not practical to have everything syncing. Now what I've done is setup gmail to also read and be able to reply to, all my pop3 accounts but obviously the mail is left on the server. At home, on Outlook, I let it remove mail from the server after 30 days. I then store all important info for rentals somwhere online, Google docs for templates and Dropbox & Sugarsync for files.

Using this setup, I can copy my Outlook database to a netbook just before travelling or simply use Google to do any rental emails I need to handle.

What I would really like is for my Outlook database to be in the cloud.

[Richy]

Just sign up with a hosted Microsoft Exchange service provider. Many companies offer this from around £6 month have your other email account sent to the one exchange account or get it to collect emails either ways works. Then its all synced up on your phone and any other PC. Most also offer Oulook web client as part of the package so you can use outlook on any pc without installing outlook if you get my drift. I use these guys but there are plenty of other providers with UK based servers.
https://myhosting.com/exchange/

[roxytoo]

Thanks, I am trying EM Client which does all I need superfast though the free version is only 2 email addresses. Only problem seems to be copy and pasting and formatting not correctly but other than that its looking good!

[CSE]

Will not Thunderbird do all what you want to do?
http://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/

some reviews of free email software
http://email.about.com/od/findthebestso ... eviews.htm

[J B]

I use 1&1 as my e mail provider and then read them with Thunderbird on my PC (will also work with webmail) and can also access them on my iPhone
http://order.1and1.co.uk/