+1 for Thunderbird.
This is something I have been thinking about in Chandler for some time.
I am waiting post Preview to begin reworking the Account dialogs in to
a wizard. At that point users should be able to configure Gmail,
Yahoo POP,
and other well established web clients with POP / IMAP support easily
through the UI without having to know host names, ports, security
settings etc..
-Brian
Brian Kirsch
Internationalization Architect / Mail Service Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.osafoundation.org
On Apr 9, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/04/thunderbirdqa_0409
"A lot of users want to check their web-mail accounts using a desktop
client, but they don't know all the information necessary to connect.
For instance, with Gmail you need to know the server names in addition
to your login information. We wanted to make the process easier for
users, so we've provided Gmail integration using just an e-mail
address.
All the user has to do is enter their e-mail address and password and
Thunderbird will figure out the server details for them.
For the Mac version, we've provided the same one-step integration with
.Mac. We plan to add more web-mail services and even ISP providers in
future releases. In the meantime, it's possible for developers to
write
extensions for other popular web e-mail providers."
--
Heikki Toivonen
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