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1. Re: OT: Problem with mail on Smartphone (K-9) (Chris)


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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:03:03 +0000
From: Chris <cshorler@googlemail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] OT: Problem with mail on Smartphone (K-9)
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On 19 February 2015 10:11:59 GMT+00:00, David Smith <David.Smith@imgtec.com> wrote:
>> From: bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk
>[mailto:bristol-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alex Butcher
>> <http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/>
>
>"Outlook-Quotefix does not (yet) work with Outlook 2007"
>
>Let alone LookOut 2010 that I have to run...
>

What's the alternative?

I'd welcome a viable alternative to Outlook email (work, not by choice). Quoting is the least of my problems when every other person in the conversation is an Outlook user. I can't imagine they've ever seen better.

Frequently paging through the conversation is wasteful when there's no good way to reduce context to concise levels for viewing. Topic folders are easier to use than categories, and categories seem not to persist through responses (despite being potentially more useful for multi topic indexing). Outlook conversation searches seem broken 50% of the time when subject matches still succeed. One key use is to search things sent years ago, really only practical with a rigid approach to organisation. Exporting mail and calendars - nothing works well for me - I've had several partial successes, nothing which would allow me to practically restore the export folders.

Never mind the idea of linked topics within categories. Not to mention ancient task management / archival, calendar archival, auto switch to rich text on receive format. Wiki export... etc.

Where's the radical new forward thinking information tool for Linux... or Windows?

Chris





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