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Re: [LUG] Firefox add-on IE Tab

 

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:41:36 +0000
Rob Beard wrote:

> On 22/01/2009 21:00, james kilty wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:13 +0000, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> >
> >
> >    
> >> IE Tab, I believe, uses IE's rendering machine so if a trojan is
> >> making use of some bug in IE, it may or may not work in IE Tab.
> >> Firefox, however, isn't bug free either, so it's essential to use
> >> some kind of security software on top of that.
> >>      
> > Thanks. Interesting that today she was warned about a Trojan as she
> > was using OWA though she cannot remember whose email she was
> > responding to. It could be from there. So the combination of the 3
> > programmes seems to be doing something good for her.
> >
> > One day she might go Linux. Here's in hope.
> >
> > Thanks - you are all so kind in supporting an not-really-Linux
> > topic.
> >
> > James
> >
> >    
> Just had a thought, Evolution supports Exchange through the Outlook
> Web Access.  I'll have a play with my Outlook account and see if it
> works. If it works using an OWA account then maybe it might be a way
> to ween her off Windows.
> 
> Rob

It does work.  I've used it before now to connect to my College
email account whilst running Linux.  It's not particularly fast, but
then it wouldn't be.

What would be nice is for Evolution to be able to talk to Exchange
directly, rather than going through OWA.

Grant.

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