McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: William Case [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a
sponsor
anda text editing component
Hi;
I am asking this sincerely, not to start a flame war.
I use Outlook about once a week in WinowsXP. The rest of the time I
am
in Linux. I really don't understand why people feel they need an
email
client as part of the OOo suite. In my experience Outlook does
nothing
extra to what is available in any Linux distribution.
What are they looking for that I have missed?
Home users are often looking for their e-mails incoming and outgoing to
have childish or old-maiden-ish "stationery", and also to directly
include photos, animated emoticons and other junk. They don't want it
wrapped up as an attachment. They don't want to see their incoming mail
split into two or three separate files that need extra clicking and
poking.
Office users want seamless integration with the same calendar, address
lists, resource-booking (meeting rooms, projectors, etc.) and so on that
all their fellow employees are using in Outlook.
They also want to cut'n'paste from Word and Excel and Powerpoint
directly inline in their e-mails (again, not as attachments).
Hum, I don't want either of these. I want images to be blocked unless I
want to see them. I don't want rich text, I want clear plain text that
is easy to read. No BOLD or italic messages. If someone sends me a
*.doc file, I want it to be saved as a doc. Same with a spreadsheet. I
don't use email for spreadsheets or documents.
But this is the point, I can use the client that meets my needs, not
some application that is forced on me and opens up another issue for
virus or spyware infection.
I set my preferences to plain text in my email programs and always have.
One of the reasons that I didn't like Evolution, there was no way to
control what parts of the messages I could or couldn't see when I wanted
to. It was to much of an Outlook clone and I was never comfortable with it.
One really good reason not to load images inline is spam that uses the
single pixel tracking method. I know what messages have attached images
and I see a nice large square where the image would be. Now I know what
are good or bad images to view. But this is getting off topic.
--
Robin Laing
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