Well, that's not necessarily true. Outlook *can* store your email in a PST (which I think has an artificial limitation of 1 GB), but Outlook is really meant to plug into Exchange, which, like IMAP servers, stores email on the server.
Then again, you can also plug Outlook into Scalix and the other Exchange-alternatives. By the way, we use Scalix and are dropping it. It's just annoying at times.. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > Don't forget the fact that Outlook stores all emails(and other junk) in a > single small file. Apparently, this is the most safe and secure way to store > your email. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On > Behalf > Of -ray > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:57 PM > To: general at brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"? > > > Outlook Express just manages email. With full Outlook, you get contacts > and calendaring (and other junk), which is more fitting in an office > suite.. Add the collaboration that you mention, and boom that's what > users want. > > ray > > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote: > >> And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office >> suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and >> then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random >> to me. >> >>> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their >>> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well. >>> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
