{"id":29,"date":"2005-08-30T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-08-30T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T02:00:12","slug":"back-on-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2005\/08\/back-on-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I moved back to <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/FX010857931033.aspx\">Outlook 2003<\/a> after all the fuss of moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a>.&nbsp; I think I gave it a fair trial (about 6 months) but in the end it just wasn&rsquo;t up to the job in the same way Outlook was.&nbsp; What I really wanted from a mail package was the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Email via IMAP &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Outlook and Thunderbird both do a great job with this natively.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve yet to find a popular mailer that doesn&rsquo;t to be honest.&nbsp; With the IMAP server set up on my local linux server, I enjoy being able to access the same inbox from multiple machines wherever and whenever I want it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shared Address Book &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>I want to share the Address book between all the computers that access the email server.&nbsp; Neither Thunderbird or Outlook do this natively over IMAP, but I&rsquo;ll go into how I tried to fix it on both machines later.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shared Calendar &#8211; <\/strong>I don&rsquo;t want to manage different calendars all over the place.&nbsp; I want the same set of appointments and reminders all the way from my Pocket PC to my gaming machine to my work desktop.&nbsp; Again, there&rsquo;s no native support for either of these scenarios in Thunderbird or Outlook over IMAP but I had some inroads into getting around them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pocket PC Integration &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Outlook does this easily.&nbsp; Thunderbird doesn&rsquo;t.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s really that simple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Getting around the address book and calendar limitations was interesting.&nbsp; I first tried the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gargan.org\/extensions\/synckolab.html\">SyncKolab<\/a>&nbsp;plugin with the mozilla calendar add-on and it seemed to transfer my address book from one machine to another without too many problems.&nbsp; When it came to merging in changes from various places though, it just failed to work at all.&nbsp; It may have been something I did, but if I can&rsquo;t work it out then it&rsquo;s no good to me.&nbsp; Again, I tried for a few weeks to work with this but in the end it just wasn&rsquo;t happening.<\/p>\n<p>So, I moved back to Outlook (with the transfer of contacts via Outlook Express because Outlook and Thunderbird don&rsquo;t support import\/export from each other) and fired up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynari.net\/\">Bynari Insight<\/a>&nbsp;IMAP connector which makes my IMAP server appear like an Exchange Server.&nbsp; Suddenly I now have the full Outlook\/Exchange functionality and am independant of the machine I&rsquo;m working on for my Calendar and Contact lists <a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight:normal; color: #333\" href = \"http:\/\/www.tadalafilotc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.tadalafilotc.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah &ndash; I like open source and all, but it still sucks in places and I&rsquo;m not about to sacrifice my own ease of use just for someone&rsquo;s political statement on how source code &ldquo;should be free&rdquo;.&nbsp; Get a better program and I&rsquo;ll use it.&nbsp; Until then, I&rsquo;m going with the commercial stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I moved back to Outlook 2003 after all the fuss of moving to Thunderbird.&nbsp; I think I gave it a fair trial (about 6 months) but in the end it just wasn&rsquo;t up to the job in the same way Outlook was.&nbsp; What I really wanted from a mail package was the following: Email via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}