Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

I used Eudora for about ten years now, and am happy with it, but I am probably switching to Outlook 2010 shortly since I have all my contacts and calendar in Outlook. I also have a couple of gmail accounts that I use for a couple of limited uses with my Android smartphone. But I could never really trust all my business and personal email to exist solely in the cloud. I know they have Google Gears which can download your gmail archive to your local harddrive as well, so that is at least an option to also keep your data on your own hard drives. but still having all that history online is not something I would necessarily want.