Lars D. Noodén wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Randomthots wrote:
So has Sun assigned any bodies to help with the Evolution port?
Or at least coordinate with the Evolution team.
I agree that writing Yet-Another-Email-Client probably isn't a great
use of limited resources. But on the other hand, I've been hearing
that for a couple years now and I am still not able to use any kind
of decent Outlook replacement on a Windows box.
Personally, I am puzzled by MS Outlook.
On the technical side it appears more like a security flaw
masquerading as an useful application being the first and only mail
client capable of spreading worms and viruses. Major consulting firms
and even a few pundits had, for a while, been recommending ditching
it. However, now most of them seem to choose to embrace MS Outlook as
inevitable, even those that were loud about it a few years ago.
When I actually watch people use MS Outlook, I usually see them
annoyed by the program, especially the loss of mail (even between
people on the same MS Exchange server). I've never used it, myself.
My suspicion is that it's really an outgrowth of MS Exchange.
Particularly not one with any level of integration with my favorite
office suite -- OOo.
Could you elaborate on how you think a mail client should integrate
with an office suite? To me they are two separate things. I use OOo
and then I use Eudora, Thunderbird, Pine and (rarely) Mozilla Suite
now Seamonkey.
-Lars
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What I think is needed is integration. Outlook is far from ideal but it
does allow for the partial tracking of contacts. Type a letter and
send it by email and you can have it in the journal. I suppose that its
actually a contact manager module that's needed rather than an email
client. Office suites are there to enable the production of documents.
These are normally stored or sent on to someone else. To keep on top of
what's gone where it would be nice to have a contact manager/control
module that linked the whole thing together, ACT doesn't work with OOo
so that cannot be used and none of the email clients offer that level of
integration. Outlook has it to a limited degree but it does have it and
it can be a bonus if used well.
SO the question is could something be tied into OOo that linked
documents with contacts and track all communications in and out..
Just a question
Chris CIchocki
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