Hi Marek,
MM> You can not be serious, because Thunderbird is based on code from MM> Mozilla Suite, so Thunderbird had IMAP support from start, but MM> code was 6 years old! I admit that I'm not all that familiar with how Thunderbird came to be, how much code was taken over from Netscape and how much was newly designed. All I heard was that the code released by Netscape would be so bad that it almost couldn't be used for any new project. From that I assumed that Thunderbird would be to a good degree fresh code instead of old, grown code. In any case, Thunderbird has emerged virtually over night and did many things very right, much better than TheBat in the IMAP department. Additionally, if Thunderbird is indeed based on the open code from Netscape, RIT could have used that code as well. MM> I do not think, Ritlabs could ever focus to corporate users, because MM> corporate area needs groupware features and I do not expect, TB will be MM> ever groupware product. But a full-featured Exchange server is an expensive thing. It also needs to be administered, which is also not too trivial a task. Small to mid-sized companies often don't want to burden themselves, if they happen not to depend much on shared appointments. If I sit next to a guy in the same office, I don't need a groupware application - we pin a calendar to the wall and do our planning there. For everything else shared file folders will do just fine, a Sharepoint server is close to overkill. We still need email, though, and maybe we both need access to the common company email adress. For this task, IMAP is fully sufficient and not oversized either. After all, it can be a form of groupware, too. This could be TheBat's market share: Somewhere between the casual private user, who won't be able to gain from TheBat's advanced features anyway and the large companies for whose there is no alternative to a full-grown groupware system. MM> What do You think about HTML templates? this is most requested feature here MM> by small companies using OE and Outlook. Well, personally I'm a text-only ASCII-hardcore kind of guy. (I started in Fidonet back then, if this gives you any idea. ;-) ) For me different fonts (like the shading TheBat does with the signature) are a luxury and anything graphical or even html in email is devil's work. Even in the office I'm not even using html, I still write plain text emails. I don't know how long I can still keep this up, though. Whether I like it or not, today emails are no longer just carrier of information (as I like to use them) but also a sort of comercial for your interests. Depending on how you use email, the choice may no longer be yours. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Alto Speckhardt mailto:[email protected] TheBat v4.1.11
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