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		Contents Introduction Avoiding e-mail worms Barca Calypso Eudora Lotus Notes Outlook Pegasus Pine The Bat Mozilla Thunderbird Specifications Final words Editor's choice About RMIT

Editor's choice: Thunderbird

Price is always going to sway my opinion and so I'm inclined to choose a freeware product. I rather think that Mozilla Thunderbird has a great future ahead of it. Add-on features already include a calendar and macro editor -- how long until Mozilla have a fully fledged PIM? Thunderbird is also available for a wide range of platforms (rivalled only by Pine). I think I'll keep a copy!

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Thank you for alerting us to the problem. Lotus Notes does have mailbox search functions and we have amended the review accordingly.

james171 February 21st, 2005

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So has anybody heard of GroupWise? Seems to be a glaring omission, particularly given Novell's recent Suse acquisition and release of open source software.

djarvis February 28th, 2005

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No we haven't

Being a recent Open Source product doesn't suddenly make it good. At less than 2% of the worlds email users it's real value belongs to days gone past when Novell mattered to the world.

John September 8th, 2005

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Yes, I've heard of groupwise.

It's been out now about 10/11 years (maybe longer), its novell's mail / group collaboration software, My experiences with groupwise have always been positive - its feature rich and can save you a lot of time when working with teams.

Andy T December 10th, 2005

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lahcen

ola qeu tal

lahcen May 13th, 2009

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Groupwise is Evolution

Groupwise is a co-ordinated effort to get Novell's Evolution, an Outlook competing PIM, to communicate with other software. Groupwise itself is not a PIM but Evolution is & was noted by another reader.

Rex Alfie Lee January 30th, 2009

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lahcen

ola qeu tal

lahcen May 13th, 2009

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Thunderbird is the best I think. If not in the eyes of others, then at least its the best for me. Even it supports Windows as well as Linux. Plus the more great feature of Mozilla Thunderbird is that it supports extensions and addons. One more great feature of Thunderbird is that we can now also install Calendar for Thunderbird, and also can integrate Google Calendar with Thunderbird.

For more details and links to the addons check out:
http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2010/03/mozilla-thunderbird-free-alternative-to-outlook/

webtechquery March 21st, 2010

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Daisho (http://www.daisho-blacksmith.com) is a full-blown stand-alone alternative to Outlook. Contacts with CRM features, Calendaring with time management functionality (like goals, or time budgeting), Email etc. Daisho is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

kwiedemann June 2nd, 2010

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thunderbird was my first choice until i upgraded i cant send email it recieves without a problem but i get a newsgoup something error

hindo August 26th, 2010

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