[mdlug] Need to make Thunderbird "treat" email 100% like Outlook

[Robert Adkins]

BTW,

    I did discover an extension that creates what is requested.

    -Rob

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:[mdlug] Need to make Thunderbird "treat" email 100 
47235904ke Outlook
From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 11:07:15 AM
> Thunderbird has extensions that will add calendering and it has an 
> address book that can access an LDAP system to provide an external 
> address list.
>
> If I recall correctly, one could also setup a "MS Exchange" like bit 
> using the T-Bird Calender Extension, a simple setup on a webserver 
> with MySQL as the back-end.
>
>    Regards,
>    Robert Adkins    IT Manager/Buyer
>    Impel Industries, inc.
>    586-254-5800
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:[mdlug] Need to make Thunderbird "treat" email 100 
> 58866448ke Outlook
> From: David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:37:11 AM
>> For us that dont know What are the "Outlook" like applications for 
>> windows and Linux?
>> That combines Email, Calanders/appointments, contacts ext.
>>  
>> David
>>  
>>
>>
>> */"Clinton V. Weiss" <cvweiss at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>     Go a step further in saving money and educate the boss.  I'm not
>>     saying sit down and preach to him as a teacher would to the
>>     classroom, but leave printed articles around the break room, water
>>     cooler, <insert where he tends to hang out here> and he will come
>>     across them sooner or later.
>>
>>
>>     On 7/3/07, *Robert Adkins* <radkins at impelind.com
>>     <mailto:radkins at impelind.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Outlook's default method of treating replies to email adds
>>         a lengthy
>>         spiel of information.
>>
>>             It's places a divider line between each response within
>>         the body of
>>         an email, it places bold, single line headers of the
>>         following, with
>>         standard text versions of the following:
>>
>>         <--------------Divider Line Here--------------------------->
>>             *From:* sample at sample.com <mailto:sample at sample.com>
>>             *Sent:* Monday, July 02, 2007 3:31 PM
>>             *To:* internalperson at mysite.com
>>         <mailto:internalperson at mysite.com>
>>             *Subject: *Sometime Important.
>>
>>
>>
>>             The boss believes that "EVERYONE" uses only MS Outlook 
>> and MS
>>         Technology, which is extremely far from the truth, as we
>>         receive email
>>         from a plethora of different email servers, using a variety of
>>         clients.
>>         He just wants what he wants. (I want what I want, as well as
>>         save the
>>         company money.)
>>
>>             Does anyone have or know what terms to toss into Google to
>>         locate a
>>         configuration file to create the above in Thunderbird?
>>
>>             Thanks,
>>             Rob
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>>
>>     --     Clinton V. Weiss
>>     cvweiss at gmail.com <mailto:cvweiss at gmail.com>
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