Email/Calender App

[john at timescape.com]

Hi Scott,
I know everyone has told you about Outlook (as part of 365 or stand-alone).  I'm grandfathered in to Outlook 365 as part of Office 365 for a subscription rate of roughly $70 per year, and that is simply fantastic.  So much better than the old "Office costs about $600" up front!  I think there are about 5 or 6 devices allowed on the license, too.

However, why I actually like Outlook as a mail client on my phone is that it has this split-inbox function.  I have not investigated how it works, but it is really great.  All mail is segregated into primary and secondary INBOXES.  Damn, if the somewhat unimportant email is always in the secondary INBOX, and stuff coming from important places and sent directly to you shows up in the primary INBOX!  Maybe they filter using people who have email addresses listed in your contacts, but lots of other reasons put items into the secondary INBOX.  For example if a message comes from a mailing list, it is segregated out into the secondary - and an alert comes up telling that this item is from a mailing list, do you want o unsubscribe, or block the sender, and so forth.
I would say much of this algorithm falls into the "mystical" or "how the hell did they do that?" category for me.  At least enough so that it constantly amazes me how well it does this primary/secondary sorting.  Ads are especially nice not showing up in the primary box... if a spam blocker misses them, this crazy function catches them!  I never set it up, it just work from jump street, and I have come to really like it.  Cepend on it, no, but like it, yes.
I keep contacting the 365 support team to ask why this does not happen automatically (or if it is even possible to do) in the Windows 10/11 version, but it seems to be only on themobile app.
The Outlook will immediately attach your contacts (on the phone) if you  direct it to do so, and it will respect either the calendar on your phone, or a gmail calendar if you want to enable that.
Even  though there is not much on my calendar these days other than medical appointments and band rehearsals, it is fairly elaborate, and the Outlook 365 Mobile participates perfectly.
For example, I can just call out into the air that I want to schedule this or that on this date at this time, and Alexa (one of the hundreds of them in my house �� )  hears that and puts it on the "calendar".  I won't say it was dead-easy, but this scheduled item immediately appears in my Outlook calendar on the desktop and the phone.  Since I have an Iphone, I can ask Siri if I have anything scheduled for some specified day, and it tells me yes or no, and specifies the day's stuff.  So, this all means that in some crazy way all of the disparate monoliths are getting along with each other (Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft *and* Apple.  Becausze of this, all of it works perfectly with voice input/output which is perfect for my needs.
(All of the interface requires some third party password management, but they have made it essentially accomplished through a wizard... but not yet fully through a blind accessible wizard ☹.  Still, at least I can accomplish it.

Have a great week/week-end.

Talk soon,


John

  

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From: Filepro-list <filepro-list-bounces+john=timescape.com at lists.celestial.com> On Behalf Of Scott Walker via Filepro-list
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 2:41 PM
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Subject: OT: Email/Calender App

FP listers, could anyone recommend a good email/calender app to run on my Samsung Galaxy Z fold 3 phone.

This thing has to communicate with Exchange Server 2019.

Trying to sync my desk pc with my cell phone.

A reasonably priced app with decent support would be appreciated.

Thanks for any input.

Regards,
Scott

Scott Walker
Scott.walker at ramsystemscorp.com
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