A contact manager sounds like a potentially useful extension for
Thunderbird. Have you tried suggesting it there as a feature request?
As far as storing or sending documents, I suspect that too much of that
has been as a surrogate for proper file sharing or, as it is called
nowadays, 'network accessable storage'. It used to be an integral part of
any organization's computing infrastructure. Usually it was Novell's
Netware, but MS succeeded in taking their market share [1] However, MS'
replacement for Novell hasn't worked and people send attachments or use
sneakernet instead. Yeah, excuses can be made and dances performed, but at
the end of the day there's still a million attachments getting sent.
There are not as many extensions, yet, for Thunderbird as for Firefox, but
there are some:
https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=thunderbird
I think that the same methods for creating extensions apply to both
Firefox and thunderbird:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension
-Lars
[1] Done by calling in the BSA to shake down shops running Novell and
through false advertising. That last one went through the courts and
recieved a non-punishment.
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, C Cichocki wrote:
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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