Is Outlook 2003 right for me?

[keseko]

Hello,

I need to purchase an e-mail program to access POP3 mail. My choices
right now are Outlook 2003, Thunderbird 0.5, and Eudora 6. I will have
a couple of mailboxes, both for work and personal, and they should be
separated pretty well within the program and accessed easily. Can
Outlook 2003 handle this better than Thunderbird and Eudora? The only
reason I am considering Outlook is because of its Calendar feature.

By the way, is it possible to send and receive text e-mail? 100% text
e-mail? By that I mean any HTML messages will be converted to safe
text, and all outgoing mail will be standard text. I used to use
Outlook 2002 (XP) a couple years ago, and I recall it had text e-mail
limitations.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Dave Stanley]

Hello,

I need to purchase an e-mail program to access POP3 mail. My choices
right now are Outlook 2003, Thunderbird 0.5, and Eudora 6. I will have
a couple of mailboxes, both for work and personal, and they should be
separated pretty well within the program and accessed easily. Can
Outlook 2003 handle this better than Thunderbird and Eudora? The only
reason I am considering Outlook is because of its Calendar feature.

By the way, is it possible to send and receive text e-mail? 100% text
e-mail? By that I mean any HTML messages will be converted to safe
text, and all outgoing mail will be standard text. I used to use
Outlook 2002 (XP) a couple years ago, and I recall it had text e-mail
limitations.

Thank you in advance!

Yes, after a lot of digging through the preferences you can persuade it to
be entirely text email. This is what I have done. If the calendar is not
too important to you, OE6 can do the same very well and it is free.