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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