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Re: [LUG] Firefox add-on IE Tab

 

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:46:49 +0000
Rob Beard wrote:

> 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

It would be nice if the "Connector" could be used by other applications
a little easier.  I would like to be able to add my College email
account to my Claws-Mail list, alas...

Grant.

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