[Dovecot] [OT] Outlook identities
Nothing to do with Dovecot, but I figured this is the best place to ask.
Do any of the newer versions of Outlook have proper identities support like Thunderbird, mutt, Roundcube, i.e. every other mail client on Earth?
We have customers who set up ten different mailboxes for one person because otherwise Outlook won't Do the Right Thing. Is there some way to make it behave like the others?
- When sending new mail, you can choose which address to use.
- When replying to mail, it sends from the address that the message was sent to by default.
- All mail winds up in one inbox.
Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, but we shouldn't have to do that.
On 13/04/2012 02:33, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Nothing to do with Dovecot, but I figured this is the best place to ask.
Do any of the newer versions of Outlook have proper identities support like Thunderbird, mutt, Roundcube, i.e. every other mail client on Earth?
We have customers who set up ten different mailboxes for one person because otherwise Outlook won't Do the Right Thing. Is there some way to make it behave like the others?
- When sending new mail, you can choose which address to use.
- When replying to mail, it sends from the address that the message was sent to by default.
- All mail winds up in one inbox.
Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, but we shouldn't have to do that.
Control Panel / E-mail (Mail in win7) / Profiles ...
I hope this help you ....
Levi
On 04/13/12 02:22, Birta Levente wrote:
Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, but we shouldn't have to do that.
Control Panel / E-mail (Mail in win7) / Profiles ...
I hope this help you ....
This is more work than setting up multiple accounts =)
Am 13.04.2012 01:33, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
Nothing to do with Dovecot, but I figured this is the best place to ask.
Do any of the newer versions of Outlook have proper identities support like Thunderbird, mutt, Roundcube, i.e. every other mail client on Earth?
We have customers who set up ten different mailboxes for one person because otherwise Outlook won't Do the Right Thing. Is there some way to make it behave like the others?
- When sending new mail, you can choose which address to use.
- When replying to mail, it sends from the address that the message was sent to by default.
- All mail winds up in one inbox.
Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, but we shouldn't have to do that.
you can do it with exchange, no wonder outlook isnt a internet mail client in first line its the client of exchange, so people should use real internet mail clients ( TB etc ), if m$ would more be compatible, the need of exchange may more less , but this should not be , as cashmakers should live forever *g
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Sending-As.html
there are a few tricks to goal with profiles etc, but i saw nothing that was equal to thunderbird identities
but there a many lists an payed support for outlook, you may asked there i also looked in my newest outlook version and didnt found something related
i found this add on
http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/outlook/email_accounts.html
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer
Germany/Munich/Bavaria
On 04/13/12 02:35, Robert Schetterer wrote:
you can do it with exchange, no wonder outlook isnt a internet mail client in first line its the client of exchange, so people should use real internet mail clients ( TB etc ), if m$ would more be compatible, the need of exchange may more less , but this should not be , as cashmakers should live forever *g
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Sending-As.html
there are a few tricks to goal with profiles etc, but i saw nothing that was equal to thunderbird identities
Exchange... the cure is worse than the disease! This isn't looking good -- I guess I'll continue to do what I have been: telling people to switch off of Outlook if they want their mail client to not suck.
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:13:30 -0400 Michael Orlitzky articulated:
Exchange... the cure is worse than the disease! This isn't looking good -- I guess I'll continue to do what I have been: telling people to switch off of Outlook if they want their mail client to not suck.
First of all, there are no existing RFC's that require any MUA to meet the requirements that you desire. So please, stop your wining and crying. It is embarrassing.
Second, there are avenues available that can make Outlook behave in a fashion that should be acceptable to you. If you choose not to pursue them, then that is you business. I have had to endure hours of tedious nonsense to get a simple sound card to work under a *.nix environment when I could have simply plugged it into a machine running Microsoft Windows and had it working immediately. Your "the cure is worse than the disease" is just self-serving bull-shit.
Outlook + MS Exchange offers features that no other MUA presently comes close to being able to duplicate in an office environment. If these don't fit your needs, then please find an MUA that does. No one is holding a gun to your head. However, your desire to force others to abandon something that works fine for them to simple suit your narrow view of what an MUA should or should not do stinks of fascism. I use Outlook at work and claws-mail at home. Each one fits perfectly into the environment I have chosen to use it in.
By the way, after examining your original post, I cannot find a single thing that the proper use of filtering rules and plugins cannot easily accomplish. Instead of your customers using a different MUA, they should consider changing to a new service provider.
-- Jerry ♔
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Il giorno 13/apr/2012, alle ore 01.33, Michael Orlitzky ha scritto:
Nothing to do with Dovecot, but I figured this is the best place to ask.
Do any of the newer versions of Outlook have proper identities support like Thunderbird, mutt, Roundcube, i.e. every other mail client on Earth?
We have customers who set up ten different mailboxes for one person because otherwise Outlook won't Do the Right Thing. Is there some way to make it behave like the others?
- When sending new mail, you can choose which address to use.
- When replying to mail, it sends from the address that the message was sent to by default.
- All mail winds up in one inbox.
Outlook (2003, 2007) does do this if you set up different mail accounts, but we shouldn't have to do that.
If it can comfort you even Apple Mail.app ha no support for full identities like Thunderbird and every other good mail client (I think of Eudora, back to 1999, that had full identities support) have, except for some little trick that does not do “The Right Thing". We ended writing a little PyObjc application that adds support for full identities to Mail.app, but it is just a hack and dunno if it will work forever :/
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Andrea Mistrali
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Birta Levente
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Jerry
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Michael Orlitzky
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Robert Schetterer