Post by Mark McIntyreMy only problem with TBird was, and it pains me to say this, that
compared to Outlook it sucked - it doesn't do the other stuff that
Outlook does eg calendar, contacts list, todo list, proper synch with
my Palm, etc.
You've got a couple of good points in there, Mark, but you do your
credibility no favours because of a couple of very basic errors.
T-bird *does* do Contact Lists - just click on the address book tab.
T-bird *does* do Calendar, via an extension -
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
As for synch, as a WindowsMobile phone/PDA user, T-bird doesn't do the biz
- but that's more a Microsoft proprietary problem than Mozilla's. Yes, to a
user, that's irrelevant - but let's put the blame where it's due. Microsoft
are railroading you down a monolithic homogenous environment. Again. You
use an MS PDA, so you have to use Outlook, so you get steered towards
Exchange, which ties you to a Win2k3/AD server environment, which ties you
to their machiavellian licencing.
As a Palm user, though, you should be covered for address book synch -
http://kb.mozillazine.org/PalmSync_(Thunderbird) - again, an extension that
replaces the Palm contact conduit. Yes, it'd be nice if that synch'd the
calendar too. It'll happen. In the mean time, I seem to recall that the
Palm Desktop wasn't that unpleasant an environment.
Now try using Outlook against an LDAP address book. Nope, it's horrible. Do
a more apples-to-apples comparison, of T-bird with OE, and the suckage is
only in one direction...