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Re: [LUG] Firefox add-on IE Tab

 

On 22/01/2009 22:16, Grant Sewell wrote:
> 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.
>    
Yup.  Not tried it until now, it's not great but it seems to do the 
job.  I might actually check my Outlook account a bit more often now :-)

Rob


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