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Compatibility/Platform Support
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Support for Mac/Windows/UNIX
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Installation
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Customized installers via the admin toolkit a real plus
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Does not use user profile are for Win2K/Mac OS
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Configuration
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Generally seems unnecessarily complex, non-intuitive
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Message Creation
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Very strong (but not entirely unique) functions to (un)wrap, (un)quote
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"Paste as Quotation" (Alt-') handles quoting and wrapping
elegantly.
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Problems cutting/pasting text, including enriched and html formatted
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Receiving Mail
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Attachments
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Very powerful multipart MIME capabilities, with the ability to
rearrange parts and attachments, hierarchical parts, etc.
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Filtering
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Some report sporadic functioning
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Sending mail
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Reply options (e.g. who to send as, who to cc:, bcc: etc) are very
strong
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Use of multiple sig files is complex
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Address Books
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Can share via an IMSP or ACAP server
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Generally hard to work with
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Folders/Mail storage
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Very strong search functions; flexible and efficient
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Wealth of advanced features
for: folder management: selecting messages based on criteria, alerts,
server-side searching and sorting, good methods for checking for new
mail, and uses efficient mechanisms to reduce server and network load |
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For those with lots and lots
of mailboxes in a complex hierarchy, the "Copy/Move to Mailbox"
feature is a two-step process instead of one. |
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Doesn't support the move-to-trash
delete model (this may actually be a feature, but it's a user education
issue for those migrating from other clients that do use that model.)
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Multiple Accounts
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Identities are far more than just different return addresses –
they can be tied to particular folders, specify outgoing SMTP servers,
have different headers, etc.
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Yes, but various aspects of this overly complex
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Security
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Kerberos (GSSAPI) and SSL support for pop/imap/smtp
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Good error message when hostname
does not match certificate for SSL |
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Can be configured with a built-in
PGP plug-in. |
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Import/Export
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Good, but not so easy to use, import/export abilities
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As noted, not easy to use – no “wizards” etc
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Documentation
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Online Help weak
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User guide weak
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Web support site weak
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Other/Misc
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Well engineered for IMAP; wealth of advances features; efficient
use of resources etc
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Understands multiple password
change protocols but we may not be able to take advantage of this
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Search inside message does not wrap properly
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Spell checker sub standard in reviewed release
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Now improved?
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Weak options for viewing html mail
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