On 17/04/2008, mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2008 at 18:57, John Thompson wrote: > > > On 2008-04-16, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these > > > people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for > > > some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See > > > this OOo bug: > > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88366 > > > > Getting Pegasus open source compatible and cross-plaform sounds like a > > lot more work than using Thunderbird, which is already open source and > > cross platform. > > > Arguably Pegasus is the better mail reader. Although I use tb for > news (purely because it runs on XP and *nix), I've never felt the > urge to switch mail client from pegasus to tb - even though peg won't > run on *nix (even under wine). Lack of a good cross-platform mail > client is a principal reason I've not switched to linux from XP. > > I do find it a shame that the pegasus author won't release the code.
a) I think that to some extent there should be integration between OOo and a mail client. OOo can already use Thunderbird's address book as a data source for mail merge; that's a plus. It would be nice if the two could *share* dictionaries for spell checking (currently they can only use *copies* of the same files so you have to keep both copies in sync yourself). Simply allowing both to point at the same file, via a config setting, would be sufficient. b) Thunderbird, as mentioned, already runs on Windows and *nix. What hasn't been mentioned, and which I think is a big plus, is that there's a portable version that runs, on Windows, entirely from a USB key. All that work would have (?) to be done again if some other mail client were used. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
