Horde Email Is Better Than Outlook

January 8, 2009 by D. A. Shaver

Horde Email Is Better Than Outlook

Unlike Outlook Horde Is Not A Program On Your Computer

Horde email is better than Outlook. Horde is an open source email program that some web hosts include in their service. It is better than Outlook because it runs on the web server not on your computer. Not only does this free up system resources but it is available on any computer you are using. If you have ever lost important client contacts or emails because a computer failed than you will appreciate this.

Horde Email Cuts Down On Spam

You can choose to read all of your email in text format. This cuts down on Spam since open or viewing the images sends an acknowledgement that yours is a valid email address. This feature was available long before it was available in Outlook. Like many things this is just another that Microsoft has copied. The Horde interface has a blacklist button, which will automatically send all future email from that sender to the trash folder. In addition to that Spam Assassin is running on our email server and adds Spam to the subject line. I added a filter to send these directly to the trash folder. Because of these few steps I only get one or two Spam emails in my inbox each day out of the hundreds, which are sent to me.

Automatically Archive Your Email

Horde will automatically archive your email and delete it after a chosen period of time, for me that is 12 months. They way it does this is better than Outlook also. On the first of each month it renames the sent folder to the name of that month such as jan08 and creates a new sent mail folder.

Search For Old Emails

Horde has a very nice search feature that will find any email in the archived folders or any others. Horde also includes a very nice calendar that you can enter events into. There are also notes, which you use to keep journal and other notes that are accessible from any computer. These note pads also have their own search if you accumulate a lot of them. I have one I use for tracking communications with clients and other events throughout the day, and another for programming notes and frequently used routines. These notes are one the handiest features and I am sure you will find a dozen other things to use them for.

You Can Use Horde Too

All of my hosting clients have a choice or Horde, Squirrel Mail, Round Cube or they can use others programs on their own computer. You can also forward mail from your domain to web mail such as Gmail. Contact me to get Horde Email set up for you.

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