That said, I have (over the last year) begun looking into e-mail marketing and full and professionally designed html emails only to be horrified by the code Outlook (via Word) creates. It’s good for absolutely nowt!

The thing that brings me here today is that I was recently required to make use of Exchange Server’s shared tasks and contacts (because M$’s Web Access is WELL POO and doesn’t support most of their own features, like CATEGORIES!).

I had to remove ALL of my POP email accounts (as a web master for many sites this was NOT cool), install the Exchange account and then re-install the POP accounts and reload the emails from an archive.

This created duplicate emails EVERYWHERE, meant that I HAD to be connected to the Exchange server over VPN to get ANY mail (POP or MX) to arrive, I had to re-do ALL my signatures AND just to top it all off my rules and alerts stopped working!!!!

Needless to say I saw this as a great time to move across.

As I was with Firefox when I first started using it, all I wanted to do was run back to the arms of Outlook to what I was familiar with, but NO!

I am already starting to feel more comfortable with Thunderbird and am convinced it’s the right move in the long run.

Linux OS next? :S

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I AM, however getting Word generated ‘html’ emails (I use the term lightly) that are displaying the full page of code from the HTML tag to the closing HTML (or whatever M$ prints…)

This is ONLY happening with Word generated mail. Anyone know how to stop this?
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Thumbs up Mozilla! ;)

“In a World with no doors or walls, why do we need Windows and Gates?” Anon.

If you are using Outlook in a corporate setting with Exchange, you aren’t going to get any faster than that.

Help@!

Just the other day I downloaded 1.0.2 hoping that Mozilla had created some kind of Import function for Mac users on Mail.app. Nope – still not there. The thought of manually transferring 2500+ messages and 35+ mailboxes is not my idea of a fun time. I did it once and once was enough. When Thunderbird is finally released with a proper import tool for OS X users, then I’ll come back.

I used to use Outlook 2003 and made use of it’s calendar and tasks quite frequently. But I’ve since started using Basecamp to handle all that stuff.

I find Thunderbird to be super light-weight. After importing my emails from Outlook, the total size of the data file that contained them was around 80mb, where it was over 400mb when in Outlook format. Yikes!

Gotta love being able to use CSS in email as well.

Exchange, by default, uses a proprietary Microsoft format.

The only thing running something like Thunderbird on Exchange is you are missing out on public calendars, contacts, etc.

If an OSS project could be (or has been) created that provided the same function, or even worked better (lets face it, it’s Microsoft) Linux would have a real fighting chance in the workplace. Really, to me, it looks like one of the last hurdles for the OSS community is to provide stable easy to use “user-prof” applications, this is one of those. (I know MS dosn’t do the same… but that is a diffrent comment.)

P.S. Still looking for a 3rd party Exchange client… just for giggles.

And hell, most people use webmail anyways (which you use a broswer like Firefox to view).