I've been using Eudora for many years as my email client. I'm now possibly switching to Outlook 2003 (not OE). So now I have both clients up and running, with Outlook as the preferred program. Both are receiving mail, but they don't receive the same mail in every case. Eudora may receive 5 messages that Outlook doesn't and vice versa. Does anyone know why this happens? Is it just a question of which message gets to which client first? Or is it something more sinister? Thanks.

If you don't have the clients set to leave mail on server, then you won't get email on both clients. If you've configured Outlook, why do you still use Eudora? Just an FYI, these questions should be posted in the Office Software Forum. Good job on switching to Outlook though. Eudora s**ks. Life's more painless for the brainless.

Gmail is the only way to go anymore. The mail is on their server and they now have 7 gb's of storage and increasing.

I stand with per on this as well. No more worries about lost emails as it is all stored on their servers and accessable from anywhere! In The Matters Of Style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, Stand Like A Rock "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

i love gmail, and have it configured through mozilla thunderbird. and however im not a hard core emailer, it definatly gets the job done, especially being able t leave ANY and ALL mail on the servers, i go to early 2005... Beast Desktop Intel Q6600 G0 @ 2.4ghz Evga 680i Evga 8800GTS 640mb/320bit 4096mb corsair 1x 160gb | 1x 500gb 750w corsair psu

Outlook can be configured for Gmail as well. :) I like to be in control of my own backups. Gmail is free for now, but what happens if in the future they switch over to a paid service? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Thanks for your replies. I know this is not necessarily the right forum, but after ten years of working with computing.net, I've found that other forums don't get the attention this one does. I haven't changed exclusively to Outlook -- i.e., still using Eudora at the same time -- is that I haven't completely decided to switch. I too like to be in charge of my own backups which I do. Eudora knows how to do that, and I haven't learned yet how Outlook handles this. Thanks again. Bob