on 11/6/03 8:25 PM, John C. Welch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This isn't really going to happen for a number of reasons.
Realistically, I wouldn't expect it to, for some of the reasons you have outlined - the major one being that I don't see the MBU/M$ developing a product that depends on data stores on Apple's part - which Apple would be free to change at any time they feel, leaving E'rage high-and-dry. Mind you, I wasn't advocating using the actual applications as a back-end (and I possibly did not make that clear enough), but merely using the internal data-stores for compatibility reason - still, same issues apply. My main issues, really, are: - iSync support - if E'rage can solve that issue, woo-hoo! - Barring that, transparent synchronization with AddressBook and iCal, again for the purposes of iSync support. - Better rendering of HTML in mail (it sucks pretty bad right now). - Get rid of the single data store for all mail, and user data. - Allow support for realistic archiving (which mail.app supports nicely). Essentially, if E'rage supported mbox storage format as the backend to store each individual sub-folder, and found a way to support iSync transparently, I would stop looking for alternatives. Otherwise, I will continue to start weighing in Apple's individual offerings, and see what feature sets I am willing to sacrifice - right now, that is mostly the ability to tunnel through a firewall in order to pop external mailboxes (since Apple engineers seem unfamiliar with firewalls :-) - a minor sacrifice I would be willing to make as I now have webmail set up on my mail server. Mind you, I'm not just talking for myself, but rather for a series of corporate clients that I am working which - the predominant mindset of which is the desire to want to dump E'rage (for some of the reasons I outlined). I like E'rage for a number of reasons, but regularly losing data, and insecure data store, and inability to sync properly are not some of them :-) > This is just a baaaaaaaaaad idea cloaked in a nice fantasy. It's a concept, to extoll an idea, and illustrate some issues that I was having - neither good, nor bad. Harry -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
