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[Robert Citek]

On Wednesday, Mar 30, 2005, at 10:20 US/Central, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Citek" 
> <rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org>
>> How attached are you to using 'Outlook'?  I ask because Thunderbird 
>> is an e-mail client that works on Windows (as old as Win98) as well 
>> as Fedora Linux (as well as OS/X, too.):
>>
>>   http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
>>
>> Using TBird on Windows will give you a leg-up for when you use TBird 
>> on Linux since the interface will be identical (within 0.01% 
>> difference). And it works really well.  I use it at work to connect 
>> to our Exchange server.
>
> As to the Outlook/Outlook Express vs. Thunderbird/Evo/whatever 
> argument, there are many legitimate reasons for people to use 
> Outlook/Outlook Express. Maybe they have a corporate standard, maybe 
> there are technical reasons (T-Bird doesn't handle IMAP right for me), 
> or they might just just like Outlook/Outlook Express better.

Agreed.  But but that doesn't invalidate the two points I was making:
  1) Thunderbird works on more than one platform: Windows, Linux, and 
OS/X
  2) Thunderbird eases the transition from one platform to another, 
specifically from Windows to Linux.

If you are using Fedora Core 3, installing Thunderbird is as easy as:

   apt-get install MozillaThunderbird

or the yum equivalent.

Regards,
- Robert
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