What E-mail client are you using?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:54 pm

I was wondering what kinds of e-mail clients peeps here use. I hate outlook and use multiple computers over the course of the month so I go with on line web based mail, but a friend of mine has been pulling his hair out with Outlook problems, and was looking for something else that would
do email, a calendar, task manager, & reminders.

What say you? :)

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:14 pm

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:54 pm

Cool. I'll check it out.

Thanks a pantload. :)

Edit:

Only thing is that doesn't have a calendar and reminder feature, like outlook.

What do you use for those functions?

GreginPG · Post by **GreginPG** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:29 am

Mozilla Thunderbird here.

I used Outlook 2002 previously. Since I have Earthlink I use their spam controls and monitor those with their web-accessed mail feature.

Thunderbird is more than adequate for me since I didn't use most of the other features with Outlook 2002.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:57 am

Mister Bushice wrote:Cool. I'll check it out.

Thanks a pantload. :)

Edit:

Only thing is that doesn't have a calendar and reminder feature, like outlook.

What do you use for those functions?

If you use firefox, there is a great calendar extension. You ca set up events and reminders et al.

TheArtist · Post by **TheArtist** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:40 am

Act - it has a real calendar and is immune to all them virus.

Plus

You can attach emails to items.

You can create actioin items from emails

You can create new contacts from an email.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:47 am

Act is out. It has no cross compatability. Used to use it, but could not extract any info from it to other programs including outlook and virtually any database, unless it has significantly upgraded.

BTW- What does the "Them" viruses do? Replay Old VM songs? ;)

TheArtist · Post by **TheArtist** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:52 am

Its been significantly upgraded.

Single button export to excel, cross compatibility with Word, SQL backend.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:55 am

link?

I'm Lazy ;)

TheArtist · Post by **TheArtist** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:02 am

http://www.act.com

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:15 am

Holy shit I AM lazy.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:51 pm

I continue to use outlook because I'm too lazy to switch. The most interesting solution out there that I have seen is a web based email, contact and calendar solution thats built into one site. I have seen some outlook like solutions for the web out there that allowed you to manage emails, calendars and whatnot and ran on mysql or some other SQL server (ms sql or oracle). Might be interested in looking into something like that.

TheArtist · Post by **TheArtist** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:23 pm

ElTaco wrote:I continue to use outlook because I'm too lazy to switch. The most interesting solution out there that I have seen is a web based email, contact and calendar solution thats built into one site. I have seen some outlook like solutions for the web out there that allowed you to manage emails, calendars and whatnot and ran on mysql or some other SQL server (ms sql or oracle). Might be interested in looking into something like that.

Next version of Act should have that level of functionality, hence the conversion to MS-SQL.

Seriously, if you manage email, people and calendars, you need to check out Act.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:32 am

web based email, contact and calendar solution thats built into one site.

Are you talking about Horde?

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:41 am

That site doesn't seem to be very end user friendly. I only did a cursory drive by, but it seems to lean rather heavily towards the technical end of the spectrum

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:43 am

Horde is a server-based application. Yeah, you're seeing it from the geeky end...but when the project is implemented and served, it's pretty simple.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:16 pm

Looks interesting. Can you combine all the different apps into a single logon type system? I may need to download it and test it out. Could be neat.

I was thinking about the same idea, but I don't think I heard of Horde before.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:35 am

ET, yes, you can. I am familiar with it as a part of the CPanel configuration (i.e. I haven't installed it on a server myself, I've just used it as a normal user would).

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:40 am

looks like a worthwhile read, except for perhaps the start up learning curve time I don't have time for. :(

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:36 am

well, I can't imagine where you'd be looking to install Horde...unless you are a system admin? I mentioned it because ET was looking for something like that. FOr personal installation and use, I'd look elsewhere.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:02 am

well yeah I have my own business and my own website, and in addition to being head chimp in charge of the monkey exhibit I am also head system admin.

sin,

small business dude

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:50 pm

well, where is your site hosted? If the ISP offers CPanel, you have Horde installed already...

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:10 pm

Not bad, especially if you use some of the other features. I like the fact that under the contacts file, you can import your contacts from just about anything.

I'd also be interested in trying out Whups, which is a ticket tracking system. Might be useful for work. I could run a server here and allow me and my underling to use it to put problems in there and then solve them. That way as problems come up, I can store them in there. The to do could also be used for projects. I may be trying this relatively soon.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:37 pm

PSUFAN wrote:well, where is your site hosted? If the ISP offers CPanel, you have Horde installed already...

No they don't offer C-panel. Are there any other options but that?