[BLUG] Interesting article for those still tethered to Windows by one or two applications

[Joe Auty]

Could you get your admins to turn on IMAP support so you can access  
your Exchange mail via an IMAP client?


On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Simon Ruiz wrote:

> Re: OWA in Firefox. For those of you who have said that OWA works  
> in Firefox, I'm guessing you've either used an older version or  
> you've never seen it in Internet Explorer.
>
> IE uses a bunch of ActiveX stuff to give OWA a "client" type feel  
> (think Thunderbird with severely limited functionality...or, I  
> suppose, Outlook). I am allergic to Webmail type interfaces, which  
> is what OWA looks like in Firefox. Yuck.
>
> I might be totally happy with OWA in Firefox if I didn't get so  
> many e-mails. But I do, and the Firefox interface can't even handle  
> nested folders. Amazing that Microsoft would make sure it's painful  
> to use their server product with a browser that isn't theirs, huh?
>
> My ideal would be to still be able to use Thunderbird. Since that  
> won't happen, and the only way to access my e-mail is through OWA,  
> I'm not Richard Stallman enough to refuse to give up that much  
> functionality on principle.
>
> Re: Fry's, thanks for the tip! Is it really any better than getting  
> my parts off Newegg?
>
> Hope this finds you all having a great morning!
>
> Simón
>
> P.S. Is there a simple way to type "ó" in Linux on a us-EN  
> keyboard? It happens to be something I find myself needing to type  
> a lot and I'm getting sick of going to the character map to copy  
> and paste it.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: blug-admin_at_cs.indiana.edu on behalf of Michael Schultheiss
> Sent: Sat 1/20/2007 3:12 PM
> To: blug_at_cs.indiana.edu
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] Interesting article for those still tethered to  
> Windows by one or two applications
>
>
>
> Simon Ruiz wrote:
>> Yeah, I use tsclient as well, but I find it annoying and
>> grating-on-the-nerves to switch back and forth between two desktop
>> environments when all I need is that one app, like say Internet
>> Explorer because the only way to access our e-mail at work is through
>> Outlook Web Access (woohoo)...Hey, I wonder if the clipboard works
>> smoothly with this set-up...
>
> FWIW, OWA works in Firefox as well (at least it did with OWA for
> Exchange that I last used about a year ago).
>
>> <random whining>*sigh* I need a new computer...I'm getting sick of  
>> not
>> having my own. It makes all the stuff I think would be really neat
>> only really neat in a theoretical sort of way...</random whining>
>
> Make a trip up to Fishers (just NW of Indy) after you save up about  
> $300
> and you can put together a very nice system from parts at Fry's. :)
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