Imap clients

[Justin Bennett]

I agree. We forced them to use squirrelmail exclusevly, and not support
anything else. That's our policy now, It just depends how the higher ups
take the compliaing they are doing.

Justin

Darin Perusich said:
> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com


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