2007ClientServerEmail
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This page has been created by the Spring 2007 Client/Server Email Evaluation Team as a place to collaborate and collect documentation and resources for the team.
The 2007 Client/Server Email Evaluation Team is working together from March 22nd through mid-May (or the end of May as needed for documentation). For more information on the evaluation, please visit the 2007 Client/Server Email Evaluation Team website.
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Questions for the Team to Consider
- Overall team decisions on "Supported" and "Supported and Recommended" products
- Splitting out recommendations for POP/IMAP vs. Exchange environments
- Eudora migration documentation
- Configuration documentation for supported and supported/recommended products
Evaluation Criteria/Things to Test
- Connectivity to University's major email servers
- Does the client explicitly support authenticated SMTP?
- Does the client support authenticated IMAP/POP (SSL/TLS and/or Kerberos/GSSAPI)?
- Does the client support authenticated LDAP?
- Does the client have a built-in, trainable spam filtering tool/option compatible with the popular IMAP server on campus (University of Washington)?
- Spell-checking built-in?
- How easily can you create and then select one signature from multiple signatures created for a single identity (rate 1-5, 5=very easy)?
- Can you redirect a message?
- How easily can you create a filter (rate 1-5, 5=very easy)?
- Does it have a mechanism to import/export filters to/from other email applications?
- How easily can you import/export messages to/from other email applications (rate 1-5, 5=very easy)?
- Is subscribing to new folders automatic?
- How easily can the client be used with PGP/GPG (rate 1-5, 5=very easy)?
Products/Scenarios to Test and Results
- Testing Scenarios/Results
- Outlook 2007 against Exchange - Tomo Takebe
- Outlook 2007 against POP/IMAP - Jason Watkins, Tomo Takebe
- Outlook Mobile against Exchange - Tomo Takebe
- Outlook 2003 against Exchange - Wilson Chang
- Outlook 2003 against POP/IMAP - Bob DeSilets
- Entourage 2004 against Exchange - Bob DeSilets
- Entourage 2004 against POP/IMAP - Vern Yoneyama
- Thunderbird 2.0/2.0 RC1 against Exchange - Steve Strawser
- Thunderbird 2.0/2.0 RC1 against POP/IMAP - Chris Leary
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 against Exchange - Steve Strawser
- Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 against POP/IMAP - Jason Watkins
- Windows Mail on Vista - Larry Macy (thru Parallels)
- Apple Mail on 10.3.9 - Sherry Weller
- Apple Mail on 10.4.x - Bob DeSilets
Final Recommendations
- Supported and Recommended Products
- POP/IMAP on Windows - Thunderbird 2.x
- POP/IMAP on Mac OS - Thunderbird 2.x
- Exchange on Windows - Outlook 2007
- Exchange on Mac OS - Entourage 2004
- Supported Products
- POP/IMAP on Windows - Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003
- POP/IMAP on Mac OS - Apple Mail
- Exchange on Windows - Outlook 2003
- Exchange on Mac OS - none (strongly recommend using Entourage 2004)
Documentation
- Configuration docs for Supported and Recommended products
- Thunderbird 2.x on Windows (POP/IMAP) - Jason (IMAP)
- Thunderbird 2.x on Mac OS (POP/IMAP) - Jason (IMAP)
- Outlook 2007 on Windows (Exchange) - Jason (Exchange)
- Entourage 2004 on Mac OS (Exchange) - Bob D.
- Configuration docs for Supported products
Migration Documentation
- Eudora migration - Shahbaz, Caroline, Jason, Chris, Liam
- Eudora to Thunderbird - see link above
- Eudora to Outlook (Exchange) - see link above
- Eudora to Entourage (Exchange) - see link above
- Apple Mail to Thunderbird -
- Thunderbird 1.5 to Thunderbird 2.x - Shahbaz
- Apple Mail to Entourage (Exchange) - Bob D.
Resources
- News Article - Why Desktop Email Still Matters
