Imap clients

[Darin Perusich]

i looked at mulberry about a year and a half ago and came to the
conclusion that it's the most advanced IMAP mail reader but not very
user friendly. i thougt the UI was to broken up, you have a seperate
window for the folders, one for the message headers, etc. i can't stand
having a bazillion windows up for each application, one more reason why
i love tabbed browsing.

if you're looking for something similar to outlook then i'd say that 
either netscape or mozilla are going to be your best options. i'd intall 
either on a few users pc's and have them start using it. thsi way you 
can get a feel for what they think, get them raving about it and then 
deploy it to the rest of the company.

one thing that work for us was setting a policy that we only use 
netscape as our email client, it explecitly states that outlook will not 
be used. we approached it from the point of view that 99%+ of all 
viruses are spread through email and that outlook it is jump off point 
for those viruses through organizations, all the OLE crap. the best way 
to defend ourselves was #1 a good anti-virus solution, you can beat 
sophos in my opinion. #2 not using outlook, netscape was the logical 
choice for us as it run on solaris and win2k. finally #3 by only support 
1 client we can provide better support to the end user. after explaining 
this points to management they agreed and we've never had a problem 
inforcing this policy.

just some thoughts.

Justin Bennett wrote:
> Already downbloaded the demo, My Fiance is a accounting major at UB, she
> uses that at the school pcs, I know the problem I'm going to have. It's
> not outlook. It's one of those issues where they no what they want and no
> matter how good your solution is they will always have (make up) problems.
> I don't have any problem with squirrelmail. I think we need to just put
> the foot down on this one...
> 
> Justin
> 
> Michael Richardson said:
> 
>>--In a burst of eloquence, Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:47 AM
>>-0500 Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> usus
>>loquendi:
>>
>>
>>>i agree with you observations on mozilla, i wouldn't
>>>deploy it to regular users. if they want to use it i
>>>wouldn't support it, i make one client that is the
>>>standard and don't provide support for others.
>>
>>-- snip --
>>
>>>Justin Bennett wrote:
>>>  > What are you guys running in an office environment
>>>for Imap mail (on   > windows). Other than Outlook, I've
>>>used mozilla, but it changes alot   > version to version
>>>so I don't know if it's suitable for widespread users   >
>>>yet, because it's still being developed. Any
>>>recomendations, I need   > something that can do HTML
>>>mail and all that good stuff. Free is   > preferable but
>>>not a requirement.
>>
>>I've been trying to use Mozilla Mail exclusively, but I'm
>>finding some problematic mail (read:spam) can cause it to
>>lock up. Moz 1.3 is looking a little better than the
>>previous point-releases.
>>
>>However, here at the University, CIT has adopted an
>>IMAP/IMSP/LDAP compliant package named Mulberry
>>(http://www.cyrusoft.com). A free demo is available for
>>download which doesn't seem too intrusive. Nice thing is:
>>when bound with IMSP, you can configure roaming profiles,
>>so your users will see the exact same configuration
>>wherever they sit (if they move at all). It also can
>>utilize several text-to-speech packages for accessibility.
>>Multiple OS support too. Decent administrator's kit too.
>>
>>	The only real downside - it does cost. $40 for single
>>license, down to $14/seat per 100. I'd definitely recommend
>>at least checking it out.
>>
>>Michael Richardson
>>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>SUNY at Buffalo Student - Computer Engineering
>>Save Time and Money - Get Rid Of Windows(tm)
>>Real Men Use LiNUX!
> 
> 
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com