Email Clients:
There are several options for
email clients to manage users reading and sending of email.
Any or all of these can be
used by the same user at the same time.
Some options follow:
- Microsoft Outlook 2003:
- Advantages:
- This is the way most
users will be accessing their email and this is most compatible.
- This supports advanced
features like Calendars and Tasks
- This allows access to the
Global Address List
- Disadvantages:
- Seems more prone to spyware and viruses
- Available only on
Microsoft Windows Computers
- Local folders not
accessible on other computers
- Proprietary
- To field does not work
right
- Crashes a lot
- Hard to Configure
(Exchange vs. IMAP)
- Exchange Web Client: ( https://grays.cudenver.edu/exchange
)
- Advantages
- Available from any web
browser
- This supports advanced
features like Calendars and Tasks
- This allows access to the
Global Address List
- Disadvantages
- Local folders not
accessible
- To field not
displayable
- Not configurable
- Thunderbird (latest Mozilla
email client)
- Advantages
- Both Windows and Linux
versions available
- Free to download and
install
- Open source
- Stable
- Interoperable
- Fast
- Disadvantages
- May not work exactly like
Outlook
- Lacks Compatibility with
Outlook Calendar & Tasks
- Lacks access to Global Address
Book (LDAP may cure this)
- Pine
- Advantages
- Lightweight text based
- fastest on slow
connection
- Legacy
- Familiar
- Disadvantages
- Lacks Graphics support
- Fails to Display some
email formats correctly
- Cumbersome.
- Requires high level of
user understanding and expertise
- Difficult to configure
and setup correctly