Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 17, 2006 02:54 AM
A good reason to use outlook is because you've been using it for years, and it already works. All your contacts and calendar items are already in Outlook.
And your job does not revolve around IT. You teach History, and you'd like to access your email the same way you know how.
That's why to use outlook or any other mail client for that matter.
Have you even used the OX web interface? EVERYTHING causes a round-trip to the server. Even expanding a collapsing a menu-tree that hardly ever changes (if ever).
It's not as quick as it should be. It's certainly not as quick as using what you are (I am) already familiar with.
I use Evolution and Thunderbird and none of them work properly with OX except for imap/smtp mail. And this is the job of courier/postfix/ldap
As I type this, I'm searching for an alternative to OX, and also considering using the usable parts of OX to make my own
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 17, 2006 02:54 AMA good reason to use outlook is because you've been using it for years, and it already works. All your contacts and calendar items are already in Outlook.
And your job does not revolve around IT. You teach History, and you'd like to access your email the same way you know how.
That's why to use outlook or any other mail client for that matter.
Have you even used the OX web interface? EVERYTHING causes a round-trip to the server. Even expanding a collapsing a menu-tree that hardly ever changes (if ever).
It's not as quick as it should be. It's certainly not as quick as using what you are (I am) already familiar with.
I use Evolution and Thunderbird and none of them work properly with OX except for imap/smtp mail. And this is the job of courier/postfix/ldap
As I type this, I'm searching for an alternative to OX, and also considering using the usable parts of OX to make my own
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