Beth wrote: > So I have been experimenting with differant office suites out there. I dont > have alot of money so the more free the better. ;) Anyway there is this > one disturbing thing to me. As far as I can tell Microsoft office is the > only one that comes with Outlook which is an absolutely awesome mail client > in my opinion. I like it because it integrates using calendar's and > reminders and such. I dont remember all the features cause its been quite a > while since I was able to use it regularly. Anyway I have been hoping to > find one that is as good as Outlook from the opensource community for free > and preferably with a office suite of some sort. > > Anyway what it comes down to is I have not been able to be successful in > this endeavor. What I am wondering is why this is not happening? I am just > curious why there is not a awesome email client like outlook only open > source. Did Microsoft strike a deal where no one could make a free good > email program like theirs? LOL okay that is a little farfetched I know. I > just am curious is all. :) >
Try out Thunderbird and the "Lightning" extension. It is a very promising step to a free Outlook alternative. Future versions of Lightning are supposed to support more calendar servers as e.g. Exchange. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
