What are the Pros and Cons of using Eudora and Outlook Express?

What are the Pros and Cons of using Eudora and Outlook Express?

Advantage of using Outlook Express:

Part of Windows components
Fully support of multi-language, especially Asian languages, in both viewing and composing email
Fully support of HTML format in both viewing and composing email
Block sender feature for anti-spamming
Save outgoing mail copies on IMAP mail server, thus can be accessed from another computer

Functions NOT available in Outlook Express (comparing with Eudora):

Redirect an email
Resend an email with "Send Again" function
Set a "default domain" for automatically adding to unqualified addresses (i.e. recipient address in Outlook Express must be entered in full)
Delete the copy of selected message(s) from POP3 mail server. Outlook Express can delete the email copies on the POP3 server only based on the setting of "Leave a copy of messages on server". Please click here for details.
Run multiple instances of program concurrently.
- Only ONE Outlook Express can be executed at one time.
- Multiple accounts must be handled within a single Outlook Express session, and incoming email come from all POP3 mail accounts will be placed into the same Inbox
- Problem may be solved by creating multiple Identifies. But users need to switch between Identifies to access different POP mail accounts.

Function comparison between Eudora and Outlook Express

	Eudora	Outlook Express
System Mailboxes	In	Inbox
	Out	Sent Items
	Trash	Deleted Items
	No such mailbox. Drafted messages are stored in Out mailbox with "sendable" status	Drafts
	Junk (v6 or above)	No such folder
Basic Features	Check Mail	Send/Recv
	New Message	Create Mail
	Delete	Delete
	Reply, Reply All	Reply, Reply All
	Forward	Forward
	Redirect	No such feature
	Send Again	No such feature
	Transfer to folder	Move to folder
	Pressing Shift key when doing transfer	Copy to folder
	Change status	Mark as ...
	Mark as delete	Mark as delete
	Deleted messages are moved to "Trash" folder	No such feature
	Empty "Trash" folder	Purge Deleted Messages immediately when they are marked as delete (without save in deleted / trash folder)
	Viewing HTML mail with Microsoft viewer (IE) support	Fully support in displaying HTML mail
	Limited support in composing HTML mail (with Style text)	Fully support in composing HTML mail
	No such feature. Problems occur in viewing and composing non-English email	Changing Encoding when viewing and composing email message
	Setting "default domain"	No such feature. i.e. Recipient address must be entered in full
	labels (to classify messages into different categories)	No such feature. (It has the 'Flat message' function which can be used to classify messages in two categories only, flagged or non-flagged.)
Advances Features	Create nested folder/mailbox (only the bottom-level mailbox can store messages)	Create nested folder (every folder can store messages no matter it has sub-folder or not)
	Stationery	Stationery
	Signature	Signature & vCard
	Message filter	Message rules (for POP3 only)
	Junk Mail filter (v6 or above)	No such feature
	No such feature. The alternative is to set up appropriate message filter	Block sender list
	Create Groups (mailing list)	Create Groups (mailing list)
	Hiding recipient addresses with "Full name" filled in	No such feature. The alternative is to put the recipient group in the Bcc: field
	Create multiple Mail Accounts	Create multiple Mail Accounts
	Run multiple instances of Eudora concurrently	Only ONE Outlook Express can be run at one time
	No such feature but it can run multiple instances	Set up and switch Identifies
	No such feature. Outgoing mail copies can only be saved in local Out mailbox	Save copy of drafted and outgoing mail on IMAP mail server
	Delete selected message(s) from POP3 mail server	No such feature. Can only delete from server based on a pre-set number of days or NOT leave mail on server.
	Request a Return Receipt	Request a Return Receipt
	No such feature	No such feature
	spell checking	speller checker
	No such feature	No such feature
	No such feature	No such feature

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Last modified: Friday, 05-Oct-07 10:38:02

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