I use Safari or any other web browser to connect to our new Exchange 2003 Outlook Web access. It is really good. I have a fully functional calandar and can organize meetings and other tasks with the rest of the people at my comany from anywhere thats on-line. It is brilliant for our sales people and for me when I travel overseas as I don't need a local account etc.
I can't belive its a MS product as its actually good!
Dobby.
I do the same when working from home. It's an amazingly good product for M$. Most of the time using Outlook 2000 on Win, and for private things Appple Mail.
i use thunderbird. I do have one or two gripes but i could not get myself to enjoy my email experiance with mail.app and Entourage is a bit bloated for me.
The reason i picked thunderbird was becuase i used to be on winblows PC with Outlook Express. When i was started saving for a mac, i knew i needed to be able to use my email effortlessly so i slowly moved over to thunderbird. From there, it was easy on a mac.
I just wish they would make it a but less buggy and fix the new mail notification sound on the Mac OS X version.
Thank you guys for participating in this little poll, you helped me a lot. Now I have better insight in the email client market for the Mac, which will help me fine tune my newsletter app (don't worry: has nothing to do with spam ).
What did I learn? Obviously most of you use Apple Mail, but the most interesting thing I learned was the already widespread use of Mozilla Thunderbird. That surprised me, and I promise, in the next poll there will be an option to choose Thunderbird.
Thank you all for participating, and if you didn't cast your vote yet, you're still invited to do so.
My only beef is that mailboxes become overloaded (internal attachments), and once a mailbox gets corrupted, there don't seem to be any tools to recover it. Attempts to index the folder cause Mail to hang.
Ended up creating a new folder, but can't get the old stuff out anymore.
Anybody found a decent utility for repairing/retrieving old mail folders?
Apple uses standard 'nix mbox files: basically a plain text file in which each new message is delimited by the beginning "From: .*" line... so although I've never had to do this, I reckon you could:
Open the mbox file in a text editor. Cut and paste the human readable text (including headers) into a new document. Save it as plain text.
This will probably work. Probably.
To give you a feel for what you'll be looking at, this is a header from one of my emails (the message body follows afterwards)
Code:
From stephen Wed Jun 11 07:17:07 2003
Return-Path: <info@webone.com.au>
Received: from stargate.webone.com.au [210.8.44.14]
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.2)
for stephen@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:17:07 +1000 (EST)
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
by stargate.webone.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h5ADJR114447
for everyone-list; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:19:27 +1000
If you lose apple mail the next best thing out there is GNUmail which is basically apple mail + tons of features and its an opensource project on sourceforge which i am a big supporter of.
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Originally posted by dobby
I use Safari or any other web browser to connect to our new Exchange 2003 Outlook Web access. It is really good. I have a fully functional calandar and can organize meetings and other tasks with the rest of the people at my comany from anywhere thats on-line. It is brilliant for our sales people and for me when I travel overseas as I don't need a local account etc.
I can't belive its a MS product as its actually good!
Dobby.
I do the same when working from home. It's an amazingly good product for M$. Most of the time using Outlook 2000 on Win, and for private things Appple Mail.
The reason i picked thunderbird was becuase i used to be on winblows PC with Outlook Express. When i was started saving for a mac, i knew i needed to be able to use my email effortlessly so i slowly moved over to thunderbird. From there, it was easy on a mac.
I just wish they would make it a but less buggy and fix the new mail notification sound on the Mac OS X version.
What did I learn? Obviously most of you use Apple Mail, but the most interesting thing I learned was the already widespread use of Mozilla Thunderbird. That surprised me, and I promise, in the next poll there will be an option to choose Thunderbird.
Thank you all for participating, and if you didn't cast your vote yet, you're still invited to do so.
Michael
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Mail (Apple).
My only beef is that mailboxes become overloaded (internal attachments), and once a mailbox gets corrupted, there don't seem to be any tools to recover it. Attempts to index the folder cause Mail to hang.
Ended up creating a new folder, but can't get the old stuff out anymore.
Anybody found a decent utility for repairing/retrieving old mail folders?
Apple uses standard 'nix mbox files: basically a plain text file in which each new message is delimited by the beginning "From: .*" line... so although I've never had to do this, I reckon you could:
Open the mbox file in a text editor. Cut and paste the human readable text (including headers) into a new document. Save it as plain text.
This will probably work. Probably.
To give you a feel for what you'll be looking at, this is a header from one of my emails (the message body follows afterwards)
From stephen Wed Jun 11 07:17:07 2003
Return-Path: <info@webone.com.au>
Received: from stargate.webone.com.au [210.8.44.14]
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.2)
for stephen@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:17:07 +1000 (EST)
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
by stargate.webone.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h5ADJR114447
for everyone-list; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:19:27 +1000
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:19:27 +1000
From: WebOne <info@webone.com.au>
Message-Id: <200306101319.h5ADJR114447@stargate.webone.com.a u>
X-Authentication-Warning: stargate.webone.com.au: majordom set sender to info@webone.com.au usi
ng -f
Subject: [Info] Changes at WebOne
Sender: info@webone.com.au
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: info@webone.com.au
X-UIDL: ?L>"!Wo'"!,VC"!fj9!!
Status: RO
X-Status:
X-Keywords: NotJunk
X-UID: 1503
Once in a while I'll use my gmail account also.