On 03/13/2007 06:13 PM, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 13:28 +0200, Steven Boyd wrote: >> I am new to the open source community as well as OpenOffice. I have noted >> that there does not seem to be an Outlook-equivalent component (i.e. a mail >> client) bundled with OpenOffice. Am I correct? If so, can you recommend a >> reliable open source mail client? > > Hi, Steven. > > Depending on your setup and distribution of choice, there are many > clients that work similar to Outlook. Among them, the four most popular > are probably: > * Novell Evolution [1] - This one is my personal favorite, and is > the PIM (Personal Information Management) solution for the > default GNOME desktop environment. It is a full Outlook > workalike, including functionality of email, contacts > management, calendaring, etc. > * Mozilla Thunderbird [2] - This one is mail/news-only, though > calendaring can be provided by its Sunbird extension. I like it > because its IMAP filters are *incredibly* fast, but its UI can > be a bit cluttered. > * Mozilla Seamonkey [3] - This is the community-driven successor > of the full Netscape/Mozilla application suite (e.g., browser, > webpage editor, mail client, et al. all in one package). > * KMail/Kontact [4] - This is the PIM solution for the K Desktop > Environment. > > I've never tried Seamonkey or Kmail/Kontact. so I can't offer any > opinion on those. Evolution suits my needs best though, and seems to > integrate well with OpenOffice.org's "Mail merge" functionality. (I'm > using Fedora.) > > Hope that helps. > > [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ > [2] http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ > [3] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ > [4] http://kontact.kde.org/
What an excellent response! I hope that you don't mind if I (and others) copy that for future responses of this nature. BTW: I also like very much like Evolution, but use SeaMonkey on a daily basis as my regular mail & browser client -- I highly recommend SeaMonkey. The main problem with SeaMonkey is with the browser. Many websites now trigger on only the browser UA such as "Firefox" or "IE" and fail to properly trigger on the Gecko browser engine behind them. An example of Geko browsers are: Netscape, Seamonkey, Firefox, Galeon, Kmeleon, Kazehakase, Epiphany, Camino, Flock, and possibly others. See: http://geckoisgecko.org/ So, the end result is that many sites do not work properly yet with SeaMonkey unless the UA is spoofed to show Firefox etc. The other problem that one will encounter is that the OOo email client script suffers the same problem as above; it accomodates Evolution & Thunderbird, but doesn't accomodate SeaMonkey without modifying the email script. It will eventually be fixed & I have mine working with no problems, but it is a glitch. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
