You hit the nail on the head.
Everybody I know who has tried and taken the time to learn it ends up enjoying it.
But...not everyone wants to take or thinks they should have to take the time. It's a consumer level attitude, but it's one that M$ has come closer to meeting (monopoly reasons etc. doesn't matter..) than the Linux community has. Until it's easy enough for the consumer relative to Windows, which I don't believe it is yet, things won't change.
We worked with a company in regard to a content managment system for about 6 months and then decided it wasn't appropriate for us.
It started with a on-line demo of the product. Then we had them come in-house for another day long demonstration that was divided into 2 parts, one targeted at end users and one target towards the technical staff.
So far so good, all the right answers from the sales people (of course). They convinced us that a proof of concept (on their dime, just our time and some spare hardware) would completely convince us.
They left the product with us in a test environment for 90 days. It was during this important testing phase that we got into the day-to-day grind and found the ugle details which decided us not to go with the product.
See if you can get a similar opportunity to work with it in your "real world".
Also, get an SLA (Service Level Agreement) with us much detail as you think you need.
From fastmail faq:
Port : The port the POP server lives on. Almost always 110. We currently don't support retrieving POP over SSL to FastMail. Ignore this setting for HotMail accounts. For MSN (non-HotMail) accounts use port 80.
The bold is what I'm looking for in a web based email client.
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But...not everyone wants to take or thinks they should have to take the time. It's a consumer level attitude, but it's one that M$ has come closer to meeting (monopoly reasons etc. doesn't matter..) than the Linux community has. Until it's easy enough for the consumer relative to Windows, which I don't believe it is yet, things won't change.
We worked with a company in regard to a content managment system for about 6 months and then decided it wasn't appropriate for us. It started with a on-line demo of the product. Then we had them come in-house for another day long demonstration that was divided into 2 parts, one targeted at end users and one target towards the technical staff. So far so good, all the right answers from the sales people (of course). They convinced us that a proof of concept (on their dime, just our time and some spare hardware) would completely convince us. They left the product with us in a test environment for 90 days. It was during this important testing phase that we got into the day-to-day grind and found the ugle details which decided us not to go with the product. See if you can get a similar opportunity to work with it in your "real world". Also, get an SLA (Service Level Agreement) with us much detail as you think you need.
Have you considered something like SalesForce.com
From fastmail faq: Port : The port the POP server lives on. Almost always 110. We currently don't support retrieving POP over SSL to FastMail. Ignore this setting for HotMail accounts. For MSN (non-HotMail) accounts use port 80. The bold is what I'm looking for in a web based email client.
I'm not talking about connecting to a web site with SSL, but having the web site's email system connect to my ssl enabled pop server on port 995.
Does anyone know of a web based email service (i.e yahoo) that will allow you to connect to a pop server running SSL?