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Does anybody have any experience using Thunderbird with the Owl plugin |
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for connecting to Exchange OWA? |
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https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange/ |
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I've been thinking it might be a better option than hiri. |
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https://www.hiri.com/ |
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I've been using hiri for a couple years now, but development and |
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support seemed to have stopped several years ago. It still works as |
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well as it always did, but there are years-old bugs that don't look |
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like they're ever going to get fixed, and there are some rather basic |
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features that are missing or don't work. On the pro side, the calendar |
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function does sync up and work pretty well. The basic mail |
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functionality works good enough about 80% of the time. |
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But, every month or two an e-mail thread gets broken and you have to |
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delete the account and start from scratch. The editor is also lacking |
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basic operations like indent, quote, code block, font/color, insert |
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image, and a few others. Oh, and there's no "undo" in the |
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editor. About once a day, my emacs muscle memory will kick in and I'll |
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hit ctrl-a to move the beginning of the line and then start typing |
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something. Poof, the entire draft is gone with no way to recover. |
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I've found that a viable work-around for anything at all long or |
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complex is to edit the message using markdown-mode in emacs, preview |
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the message in a browser, and then cut/paste it into hiri's editor |
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window. But, the OWA web UI works just as well for that... |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! This ASEXUAL PIG |
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at really BOILS my BLOOD |
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gmail.com ... He's so ... so |
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... URGENT!! |
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