If you're receiving spam email messages from one of your friends, clicking the "My Friend Has Been Hacked" button will alert Microsoft to stop the spammer from using the abused account. In an effort to combat junk mail and unwanted messages, Microsoft lets users report compromised accounts directly to Outlook through the "My Friend Has Been Hacked" function. Engaging this option also automatically deletes all messages from the offending sender, which Gmail's Filter feature doesn't do. This Sweep menu also comes with a built-in unsubscribe feature that marks certain senders as "unsafe," eliminating the need to navigate to the newsletter's website to stop continued emails. Gmail allows you to perform such actions with individual emails and lets you to filter emails from certain senders. Outlook defaults this period to the last 10 days, but also offers options ranging from three to 60 days. This means you can choose to move or delete messages from certain senders within a specific period. For example, you can move all emails from a particular sender to a specific folder, and you can also choose to delete all emails from a specified sender.Īdditionally, the Sweep function allows you to schedule a periodic clean-up. Gmail doesn't support this functionality, and just displays your browser's default menu when right-clicking.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe inbox's Sweep function makes it easy to manage a bundle of emails in one simple click.
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This means you can choose to Reply, Forward, Delete and Archive among other actions with a right-click of the mouse.
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We also love that offers an action menu that can be accessed by right-clicking an email. Three icons will appear next to the subject-one that lets you mark the message as "Read," another that deletes the email, and the third that keeps the message at the top of your inbox. When it comes to navigating your inbox, use can trigger Instant Actions by hovering your mouse over an email's subject line. When participating in an email thread with a Facebook friend, you'll notice a sidebar with a link to his or her profile. Microsoft also slipped some nice social integration into 's conversation view. We think Outlook's approach looks cleaner, but we could see why some would prefer Gmail's approach.
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Unlike Gmail, Outlook doesn't distinguish separate emails by boxing them off with a straight line across the top of the message. It doesn't stray too far from Gmail's offering, and displays consecutive emails in a single streamlined thread. Like most of the other features that come with, the inbox's conversation view is clear and easy to read. In fact, the body portion of Outlook's email template resembles a Word document more than a standard blank email. When a message is sent to your address, it appears instantly.Ĭlick to allots the entire page for composing a new email, making Google's offering look minimalistic and cramped. If Outlook or Hotmail is your primary email address, you won't have to worry about this delay. In one case, it took up to 20 minutes to forward a new email from Gmail. Once all of our existing emails were successfully transferred, new messages still lagged for quite a bit. If you're like us, which means you never delete emails after reading them, this could present a major problem. Additionally, we had to continuously refresh the page to see new messages. took the course of an entire day to import the thousands of emails sitting in our Gmail inbox. For Gmail users, Google may alert you to let you know an attempted login was made from a different app, but once you grant permission to, your email should sync.
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Microsoft guides you through this simple process, which just consists of entering the email address and password for any account you wish to link. Setting up your account is easy enough, as the homepage prompts you to add your email and social accounts straight off the bat.