You've got almost endless options when it comes to choosing an email client. But one of the simplest, best, and most effective is right within Windows itself. No, not Outlook—the native Mail app.

Mail—and its related app, Calendar—don't feature many bells and whistles. I rarely see lists of new features. But when it comes to choosing an everyday mail client, I generally prefer the simple, straightforward interface of the Mail app versus the more complex, cluttered, feature-rich Outlook. Fortunately, if you subscribe to Microsoft 365 and use Windows, you don't have to choose one over the other. Instead, you can use Mail and then move to Outlook for more advanced functions.

Unutmayın, Mail ücretsizdir ve Windows 10 ve 11'in bir parçasıdır; başlamak için Mail uygulamasını başlatmanız yeterlidir. Mail, Outlook gibi e-posta adresinizi ve şifrenizi soracak ve senkronize edilmesi birkaç dakika sürecektir.

Posta ve Outlook: Artıları ve eksileri

You'll quickly find that Mail strips email down to its most basic elements: an inbox, outbox, and individual messages. You have the option to use Calendar, People, and To-Do; Outlook puts them all under the same heading, rather than separate apps. Of the fundamental differences between Outlook and Mail, there are two that stand out: the user interface, and how Mail forgoes certain advanced functions found in Outlook. The latter's appeal boils down to organization. Outlook offers a few ways to act upon (or delay acting upon) email that Mail does not.

On the other hand, Mail offers a few advantages that Outlook doesn't offer. The first, how Mail handles multiple accounts, intersects neatly with Mail's strongest advantage—the simplified UI.

In Outlook, there's really no obvious way to add an additional email account from your Outlook inbox. To do so, you need to click the File button, which opens the Account Information page, and from there the Hesap Ekle button. The capability is there, but it's certainly not intuitive.

Mail'de, Mail'in yönettiği hesaplar sol taraftaki gezinme çubuğunda belirgin bir şekilde görüntülenir ve ek bir e-posta hesabı eklemek, yalnızca sağ tıklamak kadar kolaydır. Hesaplar buton. (Adil olmak gerekirse, buraya bir "Hesap Ekle" düğmesi de eklenerek bu daha sezgisel hale getirilebilir. En azından Hesaplar size iyi bir başlangıç ​​noktası sunar.) Posta sadece daha iyi organize edilmiş hissettirir.

Where Mail shines, however, is the absolute elimination of visual clutter. There's no way you can convince me that this Outlook interface (from an edited version of my inbox) is superior to the way Mail presents the same information. Here, Outlook throws tabs, icons and more at you:

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Ancak posta, tüm süreci basitleştirir. Burada odak, arayüz değil, içerik üzerindedir.

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Benim için iş akışım genellikle tek bir kavram veya konuya odaklanır ve genellikle tek bir e-posta dizisi içinde toplanır. Projeler organize etme eğilimindeyim dışında of my email, versus trying to keep track of multiple contributions and email threads. Mail does support folders, which helps during major product releases or event coverage. This all means that my workflow is often rather linear, and lines up rather well with Mail's strengths. Modern collaboration can often be messier, with lots of projects bouncing off multiple collaborators at various organizations.

Adil olmak gerekirse, Outlook'un parlamaya başladığı yer burasıdır. İşbirliği karmaşık olabilir ve hepimiz görevlere öncelik vermek için farklı yöntemler kullanırız. farklı klasörlere otomatik olarak e-posta atama kuralları veya alıcılar. E-postayı düzenlemek için Outlook'ta hiyerarşik bir klasör yapısı kullanabilirken, başka alt bölümler oluşturmak için e-postayı renk kodu da kullanabilirsiniz. Outlook ayrıca, gelecekte takip etmek için bayraklar ayarlamanıza ve kutuyu yolun aşağısına tekmelemenize olanak tanır. Posta gerçekten yalnızca bir e-postayı işaretlemenize veya okunmadı olarak işaretlemenize izin verir; bu, bir e-postaya öncelik vermenin daha eski ama yine de geçerli bir yoludur.

There's no secret here: Outlook is the email client for power users. The question you need to ask yourself is: Are you an email power user? Do you need to be?

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If not, you'll find Mail offers most of what you ask an email client to do. Navigating it is simple. Generally, if Mail doesn't offer what you want on the right-hand rail or the body of the email, you can find it by clicking the small Settings “gear” at the bottom of th e page. That will open up a menu through which you can find common features like setting an out-of-office notification or changing your email signature.

Aksi takdirde, Outlook'u kullanabilirsiniz. ve Mail on the same PC. They'll talk to one another, so that email sent in one client will be “sent” in the other, as well. Still, be aware that some features are the equivalent of a one-way street. While arranging email and creating folders will carry over between Outlook and Mail, you can't see an email that you've color-coded in Outlook with the same color-coding in Mail. That's just one way that Outlook is “sticky,” encouraging you towards Outlook and its Microsoft 365 subscription.

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Gelecekte Mail ve Outlook çakışabilir

İronik olarak, hangi e-posta istemcisini seçtiğiniz önemli olmayabilir, çünkü Windows'ta her ikisi de değişiyor olabilir. Ocak ayında, Windows Central şunları bildirdi: Proje Hükümdarı, Microsoft's effort to eliminate the confusion between Outlook, Mail, and Outlook for the Web. ZDNet has gone a bit further, noting that we may see Monarch Mart ayında çıkış yapacak, with a more formal rollout by the end of the year. Essentially, the goal of Monarch, according to ZDNet, is to add to (or replace?) Mail with a new consolidated Outlook experience—one client to rule them all. It's not clear whether the Microsoft 365 version of Outlook will be replaced by this or not, however. What it boils down to, though, is this: Change is coming.

For now, however, I'm sticking with Mail, dipping my toe into Outlook when necessary. To be fair, we've been critical of Windows 11 and how it belirli özellikleri ortadan kaldırır, such as paring down the capabilities of the Taskbar and Start menu. But that doesn't mean that streamlining a workflow doesn't make sense. Mail is an example of how Microsoft has effectively distilled email down to its essence, and you may simply find that it works better for you than Outlook does.