web based corporate email?

[buckesfeld]

* Neophyte42,

I don't get it. AFAIK all corporate mail systems have a web interface. Novell Groupwise, MS Outlook, IBM Domino...

Uwe

[Neophyte42]

Originally Posted by buckesfeld

* Neophyte42,

I don't get it. AFAIK all corporate mail systems have a web interface. Novell Groupwise, MS Outlook, IBM Domino...

Uwe

The outlook used at my place of employment is it's own application, distinct from the web browser.

[buckesfeld]

On 08/08/2008 Neophyte42 wrote:
> The outlook used at my place of employment is it's own application,
> distinct from the web browser.

You mean it is not Outlook Web Access?

Uwe

[Neophyte42]

Nope. It is the Outlook that is a stand-alone application - part of Office 2003.

[saahne]

If Exchange server on the back-end you can usually use either OWA (i.e. outlook web access via browser) or Outlook (client software ). OWA doesn't work very well with Firefox (go figure). I use IEtab to automatically switch to the IE rendering engine within the Firefox.

If you are off-site and using the Outlook client (rather than OWA), it should also be set up to connect to Exchange Server using RPC over HTTPS (aka Outlook Anywhere) unless your IT people have turned on SSL/TLS support for IMAP connections. You can also set up Thunderbird to connect to Exchange server using HTTPS (see MozDev Webmail but the OWA file is only available on Google Groups).

[else_where]

Originally Posted by saahne

If Exchange server on the back-end you can usually use either OWA (i.e. outlook web access via browser) or Outlook (client software ). OWA doesn't work very well with Firefox (go figure). I use IEtab to automatically switch to the IE rendering engine within the Firefox.

We have OWA enabled at work, and I have to say, I fell off my chair when I was able to access it from Konq and it worked very well. No weird rendering issues or anything like that. Clicking on attached spreadsheets to open in openOffice, or pdfs to open in oKular, etc., makes it all seem very natural.

I can't give up my corp-issued Windows laptop at this point, too much I need that is Windows only, but it's nice knowing that I can check in on my work stuff without having to wake-up my work lappie when I'm at home.

Just my 2c...

Cheers,
KV