Thinking of switching my e-mail program: Eudora Pro --> Outlook. Please help me decide!

[gsaldivar]

I've used Eudora Pro for many years, but I'm thinking of switching over to Outlook. I have a few questions, and if you have some ideas on this - I'd like to hear them...

I just recently started using Outlook for my Calendar, Notes and Contacts, and I've found it to be amazingly easy to keep organized. I love the way Outlook can use the same "outlook.pst" file - I never have to worry about duplicate info between my home PC and my laptop.

But I'm concerned about viruses, worms, etc. Will this be a huge problem with Outlook? I have NAV 2002 on all my systems and I update the defs religiously.

Thanks!

 

[ojai00]

You can have Norton scan your incoming and outgoing e-mails also. That's what I have it doing. Hope this helps.

 

[Bglad]

Outlook is full of security holes that Eudora doesn't suffer from. Norton should (cough) take care of it. However, if you have valuable data, down time really costs you, or you don't keep good backups of your drives, then I would highly recommend continuing to use Eudora for your e-mail. Then just use Outlook for its calendar and contacts etc. I am starting to get e-mail viruses with increasing frequency and the difficult part is most of them come from people I know who are less vigilant or knowledgeable. They get the virus and then it sends itself to everyone in their address book. Outlook is the main offender for this.

I use Outlook Express for mail, which isn't great but better than Outlook for security. Then I use Outlook for my contacts etc. because it syncs to my palm. I do this because Outlook Express can share the adress book with Outlook. Not positive but I don't think Eudora can do that. Symantec Act is a fantastic program for keeping business contacts and contact history, much more thorough than Outlook. I use it on my laptop. It syncs with Eudora and the Palm.

If you don't need to connect to an Exchange server, Outlook is just a bad program.