Outlook vs Eudora

[genie_lk]

Microsoft Outlook:

* Account on the Liberal Arts e-mail server (Exchange) can be provided by us for any Liberal Arts faculty or staff; no paperwork needed; as it's our machine, we can provide direct tech support (password fixes, etc.)
* Access to our centrally-maintained Global Address List, which contains names and accurate e-mail addresses of every faculty and staff member in all of Liberal Arts, plus a few dozen useful distribution lists (examples: "all History faculty," "CLA Graduate Study Directors," "CLA IT Staff"); emphasize the usefulness of the global address list to anyone who routinely corresponds with anyone in our entire school; personal address book also available
* Ability to automatically send e-mail responses when away from campus for vacations or conferences (Out of Office Assistant)
* Ability to access your e-mail from anywhere in the world, anywhere where you're on an Internet-connected computer with a web browser
* Supports the most common file attachment encoding schemes
* Mouse-based, point-and-click interface that is fully integrated with Windows and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.)
* Personal Information Manager (PIM) built-in: Outlook also provides integrated electronic calendar, contact list, to-do list, and journal features; can be configured to access multiple e-mail accounts

Eudora Light:

* Typically used with Purdue Career Account
* Offers only a personal address book; no centralized e-mail address book available; queries can be sent to the Purdue Electronic Directory Service, but addresses must be manually entered
* No "out of office" functionality
* Ability to access your e-mail from anywhere in the world via a web interface, although it's not full-featured
* Supports only some common file attachment encoding schemes; notably, the very common "uuencode" scheme is not supported by the free Eudora Light (you must purchase the commercial Eudora Pro)
* Mouse-based, point-and-click interface, but not integrated with Microsoft Office
* No built-in PIM; no ability to access multiple e-mail accounts
* Eudora was the first widely-used mouse-based (for Windows and Mac users) e-mail program, and we widely encouraged its use for years; today, Outlook is our preferred e-mail client and we expect it to be so for the foreseeable future

[katy]

Hi,

Great features you explore here, but i thought Outlook is best and reliable then any other, what do you guys think about this?