So do you guys prefer web-based email or email client in desktop to access your mail?

[chaosmassive]

as suggested in the post title

 

[rtwjunkie]

I use outlook with office on my desktop. The outlook is for the strictest in the need to know people and friends. It is never used to register anything buy anything, etc.

I have a web based I use for a crap attracter that gets general use, and another web based I have linked to all my bills.

 

[Solaris17]

I use outlook, I plan my life around my calendar, and its really smart about auto adding dates and tracking info etc. I like how my rules sync back to the web version. I was tempted to say both, but the reality is I have outlook installed on all my personal machines.

 

[Frick]

Used to do Outlook, but now it's more or less exclusively the Gmail app on android, and very little the web version, which still has the old interface btw.

Not that I mail a lot.

 

[phill]

Kind of use both, but only really on desktops. I try to not use my phone for much if I can help it. I don't really like using it...

 

[INSTG8R]

I’m still using hotmail as my main account and gmail as my throwaway.

 

[dirtyferret]

Gmail for business, easily the best search function of any email I have used. Plus we use Google docs for certain spreadsheets and Gmail has a user friendly phone app.

 

[Bill_Bright]

If I only had one email account, I would probably use webmail. My ISP (Cox) provides 10 emails addresses per account - each with separate webmail access. I have assigned 6 and I have 3 of those addresses I use and receive email to daily. I also have 3 gmail accounts I use daily . While the gmail accounts are web-based, I NEVER access them or my Cox accounts via my browser - except when necessary to configure them, or, in the case of the gmail accounts, to clear out all the false positives gmail inevitably puts in the spam folders. Note gmail will auto-purge spam (and legitimate emails it thinks is spam) every 30 days.

To access each of those 6 email accounts individually via a separate browser page multiple times each day would be a real PITA. So I don't.

I use outlook, I plan my life around my calendar

Ever since Outlook 97, I have used Outlook as my local email client. I am currently running Outlook 2016. Unlike Solaris17, I don't plan my life around my calendar. My calendar plans and runs my life. I depend on it yelling at me for appointments, birthdays (5 kids, 8 grandkids, 1 great-grand kid), anniversaries and more. My Outlook calendar also yells at me every 3 weeks to check my gmail spam folders for false positives. And I always find a few.

While Outlook is a great email client, in between all my email accounts and my Outlook client sits MailWasher Pro (MWP). While MWP is marketed as a spam blocker, it is much more than that. It has a separate inbox where all my emails appear. I get about 50 - 60 emails per day with most being forum notifications. I can "work" those notifications and most other emails right from MWP's inbox. It allows me to reply, forward and delete them directly from the servers without the emails (or their potentially malicious attachments) ever touching my local computer.

Once I have gone through all my daily emails, then and only then do I call up Outlook to retrieve the 3 or 4 "keepers" I actually want to download into Outlook.

*****

Full disclosure - I've been a beta tester for Firetrust, the developers of MailWasher, for almost 20 years. While I highly recommend MailWasher Pro, I get no compensation of any kind for doing so, and I have no connection, financial or otherwise, with Firetrust or any of its employees. This is NOT meant as a promotion. If you only have 1 email account, for sure, the free version would suffice. The Pro version is needed to support 2 or more, up to an unlimited number of email addresses. IMO, the initial $30 1 year license plus $25 annual renewal fees is a bit steep. However, the one-time $75 "lifetime" license (for 3 PCs) is well worth it.

I must also point out that Outlook's own spam blocker, Junk E-mail, is not bad and of course, most web-based email providers have built in spam blockers too. As I noted, I use MWP more as a client/mail handler than I do as a spam blocker.

 

[dirtyferret]

I'm shocked no one has yet to mention Yahoo mail, I've found their spam filter to be 100% accurate!




All spam emails will accurately go into your inbox 100% of the time.

 

[Bill_Bright]

All spam emails will accurately go into your inbox 100% of the time.

LOL

 

[Jetster]

I use like 3 emails all web based, then forward them to my Gmail account. Works for me

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I use Windows' Mail app because it notifies me an email has come in.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I used to, but I typically just use my phone now. But now that I saw this, im reconsidering.

 

[MrPotatoHead]

Hotmail and gmail my 2 main emails that I have used for nearly 20 years, no need for an email client for personal emails, web access is fine.

 

[HossHuge]

I'm shocked no one has yet to mention Yahoo mail, I've found their spam filter to be 100% accurate!

I use yahoo but I don't use the app on my phone (I do it through my browser). I don't like the fact that you can't log out using the app.

The part I hate the most about yahoo is that when you log out it takes you to its homepage. The shit they put on there drives me f"n nuts.

 

[Grog6]

I have a 5 digit AOL email address, and access it from whatever browser I use.

Been there since 1991, lol.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Windows Mail app in my primary desktop. Gmail in android. Web sign-in elsewhere.

I have three email addresses in Yahoo, Hotmail (now Outlook) and Gmail and three completely different passwords. I usually use a combination of the six when signing up anywhere. But gradually changing important accounts to use Outlook and Gmail only cause how many times have Yahoo been breached again? Suffice to say Outlook and Gmail are also each others backup/security check addresses. I only use Yahoo for the sites I'm not afraid to lose account of.

 

[Shihab]

Both. I like to spread my habbits accross platforms.
Thunderbird (why isn't anyone else using this? Microsoft shills!) for some, websites for others.

 

[Athlonite]

Windows Live mail for personal stuff like work rostors, bill receipts, friends & Family and the like then Outlook online for everything else like site news or rego's

 

[shovenose]

I use either Windows 10 Mail or Thunderbird. Have like 5 emails I use on a daily basis. One Hotmail, one Gmail, two Google Suite for Business or whatever it's called this week, and one MXRoute.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

I use win 10 mail on desktop along with web based outlook and Gmail. Only reason I use the win 10 app is because it's installed with Windows

 

[Rahnak]

I use gmail and outlook on the web and phone for my personal accounts, outlook desktop for work accounts.

 

[newtekie1]

I use the gmail interface for all my email accounts. That way all my email is funneled into one spot that is synced with all my devices including phones, and all my calendar and contact information is also synced. The only reason I don't use outlook is there isn't an easy way to have it synced across multiple devices unless you have exchange(or hosted exchange).

 

[micropage7]

Never installing email client on my pc and i'm not interested installing it
Just access it from browser

 

[s3thra]

All the various webmail addresses I've accumulated over the years download to Thunderbird on my desktop when I open it. Once that happens emails in webmail get trashed from the server.

I've had this set up for years now and works well for me.