M. Maas wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am not certain as to whether or not this idea has been uttered, or if
something like this actually exists in your software already. I have,
however, never been able to find anything likei t in OpenOffice or
indpendant email clients, so I thought I’d give this a go.
In my opinion, the main reason why the popularity of MS-Office persists,
appart from people not knowing any better, is the absence of an email client
in the OpenOffice suite to replace MS-Office Outlook. This massively
extensive email client is, in fact, the only reason why I still use
MS-Office. I’m quite impressed with the whole of the OpenOffice suite, but
this remains a big problem for me.
There are, of course, alternatives to MS-Outlook, such as Mozilla
Thunderbird, but, to my knowledge, those all lack the ability to utilize a
dedicated text writer program, such as MS-Word or OpenOffice Writer, for the
purpose of writing emails. I don’t have to elaborate on the advatages of
having full Word- or writer functionality while writing an email, as
supposed to the standard built-in resources of the mail clients themselves.
I realize that develloping your own email client would require vast amounts
of time, let alone to create one that can rival MS’ Outlook, but why bother
when such programs already exist. Therefor I would like to sugest a
colaboration between open office and Mozilla, for instance, where
Thunderbird, in this example, would eventually be able to utilize OpenOffice
Writer for setting up email messages.
If this could be realised, I am positive that OpenOffice and Mozilla would,
together, be able to meet MS-Office on equal footing and perhaps eventually
win the fight. I hope this idea is of some use and I would like to know what
you think of it.
With kind regards,
M. Maas
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I hate emails that are composed in Word. I see no advantage of using
Word over an email program that provides editing and spelling within a
simple to use interface without the need to remove my fingers from the
keyboard. I setup my email programs to ignore most formatting anyways
as it is a waste of bandwidth. Of course many messages do not look like
the authors had wanted. ;)
I have tried Outlook and Evolution (a clone) and in both cases they were
programs that I found were not productive.
I ask you, what is the benefit of using Word as an email composer over a
full fledged text editor?
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