Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc

If we are looking to promote this to corporations it will need to have 
one, and we could give them the option to install one. A home user might 
opt out of installing it if they don't want an email client

On 1/5/11 3:22 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
> At 00:19 3/01/2011, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > What do other devs think about including something as mentioned below 
> > somehow in regards to a mail client alternative to MS outlook?
>
> I've been working without an "integrated e-mail client" for years; 
> it's not a priority for me. However, when I recommended OpenOffice.org 
> to another user (before October last year), she asked if it also 
> contained an Outlook alternative. I replied that alternatives exist 
> elsewhere, e.g. Thunderbird. (I just checked that Corel WordPerfect 
> Office Standard has Lightning and Thunderbird integrated. The toll of 
> Microsoft Office brainwashing? As far as I can tell from the Wikipedia 
> entry, iWork does not have an e-mail client. Nor do SoftMaker Office 
> 2010 or Kingsoft Office 2010.)
>
> Without a proper survey, we can probably only guess how many users 
> expect an e-mail cient in an office suite.
> So I can only offer my opinion: the ability to interface with e-mail 
> clients would be a useful feature. Some users don't want to migrate to 
> another mail client just because it is included in the LibreOffice 
> download, but other users - I'm thinking of users new to office suites 
> and e-mail - may appreciate some handholding. If an e-mail client were 
> integrated in the LibreOffice download, I would like the option to 
> exclude it from the installation and have the office suite interface 
> with my installed client (assuming that it implements the necessary 
> APIs).
>
> I haven't mentioned forking an existing mail client; that's because I 
> don't consider it a good way to use TDF community resources.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe
>
>
> > On 1/2/11 7:49 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > > On 2011-01-01 1:43 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > > > Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an 
> > > > equivalent
> > > > program such as outlook.
> > > Well, I disagree, but there is no way to prove one of us is right, 
> > > so...
> > >
> > > > There are one of three ways it can be done.
> > > >
> > > > 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and 
> > > > integrate it
> > > > into the LO suite
> > > Evolution is extremely buggy, *especially* on Windows, but yes, even on
> > > *nix... Yes, there are many people who run it without problems, but
> > > there are far more who complain of constant crashes and bugs, even on
> > > the stablest of systems (otherwise)...
> > >
> > > > 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.
> > > Thunderbird+Lightning would be the best other choice here...not perfect
> > > by any stretch, but the only viable FLOSS alternative on Windows at the
> > > moment, at least that I am aware of...
> > >
> > > > the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download 
> > > > size, which
> > > > would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.
> > > Thunderbird+Lightning is not that big...


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