EverDesk on Bits

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 18, 2009 at 09:55 PM

I downloaded Live Mail and it seems to be a most welcome upgrade to Outlook Express. I will surely recommend it to the people I know that still use OE (yes, there are many). As a modern e-mail client there’s quite a few things I miss; mostly I think that it has traded configurability for wizard-driven ease of setup.

As far as saving mail messages in .eml format, this is indeed so, but the filenames are coded and there’s no way to tell which message is which outside the program.

EverDesk takes the common sense way of naming .eml files by the message subject; the advantage of this is that you can find a message through its filename; the disadvantage is that you can end up with a fair view of ‘no subject (n)’ messages, where n is the number used to tell messages with the same subject apart.

For people interested in tomorrow’s Bits Du Jour offer, without giving too much away, I can say that news from EverDesk’s developers suggest a good feature build up in the coming versions. That said, one should primarily (as has been stated over and over again re UltraRecall) buy a software for what it currently offers rather than in anticipation of future development.

Alexander