Replies inline. On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:36:37 +0200 M. Maas wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam, > > > > I am not certain as to whether or not this idea has been uttered, or > if something like this actually exists in your software already. I > have, however, never been able to find anything likei t in OpenOffice > or indpendant email clients, so I thought I_d give this a go. > > > > In my opinion, the main reason why the popularity of MS-Office > persists, appart from people not knowing any better, is the absence of > an email client in the OpenOffice suite to replace MS-Office Outlook. > This massively extensive email client is, in fact, the only reason why > I still use MS-Office. I_m quite impressed with the whole of the > OpenOffice suite, but this remains a big problem for me. > > > > There are, of course, alternatives to MS-Outlook, such as Mozilla > Thunderbird, but, to my knowledge, those all lack the ability to > utilize a dedicated text writer program, such as MS-Word or OpenOffice > Writer, for the purpose of writing emails. I don_t have to elaborate > on the advatages of having full Word- or writer functionality while > writing an email, as supposed to the standard built-in resources of > the mail clients themselves. > > You really lost me here. What benefits are gained from using a word processor for emails. Pretty text output is not a function of an email program in my opinion and is wasteful of the authors time. I send and receive text based mails only. If your recipient wants pretty text, attach a document to an email(which is incredibly wasteful of bytes), or post the page as HTML+Text as most email clients do (wasteful due to duplication) or post the pretty stuff as a web page somewhere, with a clickable link in the email, the best option as extra traffic is not always generated. > > I realize that develloping your own email client would require vast > amounts of time, let alone to create one that can rival MS_ Outlook, > but why bother when such programs already exist. Therefor I would like > to sugest a colaboration between open office and Mozilla, for > instance, where Thunderbird, in this example, would eventually be able > to utilize OpenOffice Writer for setting up email messages. > No self respecting programmer wants to create an email client to rival Outlook, it does so much wrong. The format it saves emails in is proprietary and non-standard for a start. Having said that Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning add on is working towards being a replacement for Outlook. But i would use them separately for the reasons above. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ OpenOffice.org or Suns StarOffice have programmers working on the Lightning/Sunbird project with the Mozilla team: http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/mozilla_lightning_and_OOo.html > > If this could be realised, I am positive that OpenOffice and Mozilla > would, together, be able to meet MS-Office on equal footing and > perhaps eventually win the fight. I hope this idea is of some use and > I would like to know what you think of it. > Hmm - Mozilla is looking to spin off thunderbird anyway. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html Tell them what you would like to see, tighter integration with OO.o? -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
