Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:09:15 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP Message-ID: <45E3AEEB.5070505@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <b34be8420702261325m61b32f73v918111f277ddcd20@mail.gmail.com> References: <45E25D3A.7070308@chrismaness.com> <7dc029620702260923k7ae9849au1effab3dd783f684@mail.gmail.com> <20760.163.150.15.182.1172512427.squirrel@squirrel.kq6up.org> <C1DD7ACC-DB1C-40EB-9B6F-EEC41035310D@goldmark.org> <20070226214918.V38271@chylonia.3miasto.net> <b34be8420702261325m61b32f73v918111f277ddcd20@mail.gmail.com>
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Juha Saarinen wrote: > Outlook has some good features, no doubt about that, but it's not a > great IMAP client. Outlook Express is better - doesn't use Personal > Storage Files that grow into insane sizes and suffer corruption, plus > allows you to relocate Special Folders to the IMAP server, like Sent > Messages and Drafts. You want to be able to do this, trust me. OE is > also much quicker. > > Thunderbird has its own set of issues, but it's the best readily > available IMAP client for Windows users currently. The latest beta of > version 2.0 works rather nicely. It doesn't have the features > corporate Outlook users expect though, like good contacts management, > calendaring and ability to synch with mobile devices. > > If Outlook was a better IMAP client and could be coaxed into handling > email properly without resorting to VBA hacks, I'd switch to it. > Unfortunately however, Microsoft is turning a deaf ear to fixing those > issues, and Outlook 2007 for instance has taken a few steps forward > (better IMAP support) but also some backwards (quoting is badly broken > by default). > > Bringing it back to FreeBSD, Outlook will work with any old IMAP > server. Just not as well as other clients. Unforunately you (and many others on the list) have missed the point I think. The OP said that he was stuck with outlook because of his pda syncing, and there definitely isn't a means available (or at least a good, popular one -- I know I'm inviting flames from KDE / Gnome lovers..), in Unix for PDA syncing because everyone chooses Windows. Bleh.. Even OSX doesn't have a good mobile device syncing tool and it's lightyears ahead of what Gnome and KDE have in some respects. I honestly would use another client for your mail though, since Gmail's pop3 service (while nice) is less than to be desired.. -Garrett
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