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Old 19th July 2012 | 16:50
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Milo Minderbinder
 
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I like it
I switched to using the open source desktop client version three months ago, and it does fine
I'm using three e-mail accounts with it - BTYahoo, Google & AOL and all are running perfectly as IMAP
I've also got a diary synched to a Google diary AND a Yahoo diary and the Google diary is synched to my Android phone - all works well both ways (though setting it up was NOT per the instructions)
Only thing likely to cause a problem is Hotmail - that doesn't have proper IMAP so ca only be accessed through POP
ALso, in theory you can't access an exchange server with the open source version - though it does give me that option during account setup

Looks take some getting used to. The usual windows menu / task bar is missing. the whole thing has a completely different feel / look - more like a UNIX program

And of course if so so wish, theres an open source server which can be used in place of Exchange Server

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The only issue I had was in moving the contacts over. These had to be exported to a spreadsheet and then imported, but by default the e-mail address fields were picked up into the wrong fields. I had to manually move these

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