[Kroupware] Non Outlook Mailers on Windows?

[Brad Hards]

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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:34, Reiner Knoebl wrote:
> Some users (including me) don't like Outlook. We are using Mozilla. Is
> there any way to use it with the Kolab Server?
It will work fine. Kolab uses IMAP and SMTP, which is Mozilla mail native 
protocol set.

> Another Idea would be to port the K-Mailer etc. to Win using Qt for
> Windows and/or cygwin etc.
KMail is nice. May not be an easy conversion for win32 API - not sure.

> Is it really necessary to start a complete new windows solution just to
> mimic Outlook L&F? OK, I understand that many users "know" Outlook and
> are not open for anything else. But what about all the others?
There are already several clones for outlook. Check on 
http://www.freshmeat.net and http://www.sf.net for likely candidates. Almost 
any of them would use IMAP and SMTP.

> Perhaps it would be possible to find some volunteers for such a "Quick"
> windows solution? I will contribute my spare time in such a solution.
Please don't create another project for a mail user agent. Surely one of the 
existing projects could use some additional programming power?

Brad

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