On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Matt Melvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm poking around in Thunderbird as we speak. Seems to be the best > cross-platform client, as far as I can determine. > Now I'm just wondering if I can replace Outlook with Thunderbird > completely on the work front, and use it as my > email client all-around. I have to deal with an exchange server, etc. > during the day and would like to migrate > everything to a different client, including the calendar and meeting > invites. Anyone have experience with this? > Thunderbird via IMAP works pretty well along with the "Lightning" extension and "Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks Provider" extension for calendar/tasks. Beware of the latter extension as it is not compatible with Thunderbird 15. To get the addresses to populate from AD during compose, see here: http://www.initcron.org/sysadmin/how-tos/configuring-thunderbird-with-exchange-ldap-directory-addressbook-with-autocomplete/ For just a straight e-mail client however; mutt is where it's at: http://www.mutt.org Oh, and vi because in my experience it is usually installed by default on the *nix systems I've come across, while emacs is not. -- Benjamin Francom Information Technology Professional http://www.benfrancom.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
