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Corporate Email Clients Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the to-head-off-your-whining dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some companies seem to take the easy way out by depending solely on Microsoft for their email needs. To all IT managers who want to breathe easier, however, there are about eight alternatives in the market today, including Barca, Calypso, Eudora, Lotus Notes, Pegasus, Pine, The Bat and Mozilla Thunderbird--all featured in this review."

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  1. useless article anyway... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    TBird's got potential, and I've tried switching to it a few times. But until it's a good deal more mature it's not going to rival Outlook.

  2. Calendaring? Appointments? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some companies seem to take the easy way out by depending solely on Microsoft for their email needs.

    That has alot to do with the fact that the dominant "email client" does so much more then just email, wheras most of the programs which are presented in the list are just email clients.

    I really wish there were more alternatives, or even groupware products which use more open standards which would allow alternative clients to connect to the servers.

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  3. Severely lacking in details by Wonko42 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The review doesn't provide any information that couldn't be discovered with a few simple Google searches. It's basically just a comparison of the advertised features of various mail clients with some subjective scoring based on these features. The reviewer doesn't seem to have verified that the features actually work.

    Both The Bat and PocoMail (the email component of Barca) have buggy and incomplete IMAP support, and the IMAP implementation in MS Outlook is prone to some really weird quirks that can render it unusable with certain IMAP servers. I haven't personally used Eudora or Pegasus, so I can't vouch for either of them, but Thunderbird and Pine both have excellent IMAP support.

    However, despite being an excellent IMAP client, Thunderbird still lacks support for mail redirect, a basic feature of most mail clients and one that is frequently used in corporate environments.

  4. Related links by MrWa · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I understand that /. has a serious anti-Microsoft slant, but what justification is there for leaving Outlook out of the related links section? As for the linked article: it is sorely lacking any real information and the "review" is nothing but a poorly written listing of advertised features.

    One of the main benefits to using Outlook is the groupware features. The abilty to use it as an email client is usually the second reason, behind the calendering system combined with email client reason. Comparing Outlook to Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware makes a lot more sense then Pine, The Bat! or the majority of other email clients "reviewed".

  5. Pine? by thinkliberty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    *cough* Pine is NOT a corporate email solution.