Pros & Cons

ADvantages of Outlook:
- Mail stored in one file - PST
- Better mail organisation
- Junk mail support
- Better interface
- Compatible with other mail systems eg Exchange, HTML, etc
- Comes with office

Disadvantages
- Expensive
- More complex

say you were a new commer to the internet andf did not know anything about spam etc. and you only had 1 email account , which one would you use and why ?

Hi,

from the cost aspect, do you want to pay for MS Office (there are free alternatives) just to get Outlook, or are you happy with using the free outlook express.

regards spam, you can do message filtering using both Outlook and Outlook express.

You can also use something like Mailwasher (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,20000,00.asp) to filter out the nasties before you open mail.

my preference is outlook express

cheers

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Thankyou to all that have responded. I now have my boss convinced to go back to Outlook Express please see post on this subject in trouble shooting (Converting mail from M/S Outlook to OE)