[brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"?

[Dustin Puryear]

You are right about that limit. I say "limit" rather than "limitation"
because it's artificial. Microsoft wants you to move to Exchange if you
are handling a lot of email, so PSTs can only get so large.

At least that's what I've heard. :)

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Petri Laihonen wrote:
> I would emphasize "small" single file with outlook.
> Anyone with outlook.pst file at around 1Gb is about to loose them all. 
> (E-mails, I mean....)
> I have encountered this limitation multiple times, last time was 
> actually 2 days ago. Temporary solution was to move some older mails to 
> and archive.pst, but what about when archive becomes 1Gb too?  Bye-Bye 
> all the e-mails.....
> 
> This ridiculous limitation got me out of outlook very fast several years 
> ago when I lost a chunk of mail. Currently I have about 4Gb of mails and 
> Thunderbird as Mail client. No problems there.....
> 
> Petri
> 
> 
> Joe Fruchey wrote:
>> No, I know that Outlook is a full PIM and whatnot. Thankfully, I don't
>> use it anymore (got fed up with 20MB mailbox limit at work, so Gmail
>> checks it via POP now). And I understand that the functionality it
>> offers is important in an office environment. It just seems like the
>> odd man out, and that perhaps it should be offered separately. All the
>> other PIMs I can think of are separate apps (though both users of ACT!
>> are probably still running Windows 95), and most office suites do not
>> include a PIM or email client.
>>
>> That is all.
>>
>> On 5/16/07, Karthik Poobalasubramanian <karthik at poobal.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> Don't forget the fact that Outlook stores all emails(and other junk) in a
>>> single small file. Apparently, this is the most safe and secure way to store
>>> your email.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf
>>> Of -ray
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:57 PM
>>> To: general at brlug.net
>>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"?
>>>
>>>
>>> Outlook Express just manages email.  With full Outlook, you get contacts
>>> and calendaring (and other junk), which is more fitting in an office
>>> suite..  Add the collaboration that you mention, and boom that's what
>>> users want.
>>>
>>> ray
>>>
>>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office
>>>> suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and
>>>> then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random
>>>> to me.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their
>>>>> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well.
>>>>>
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