Exchange Outlook Client replacement
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First off please note that this is about
MS Outlook, but not in regards toemail functionality. The email function operates fine.I am looking for an MS Outlook replacement that can properly handle multiple Exchange accounts and functions of:
- Calendaring
- Task Management
- CRM not needed
- Organization with colors / flags
- Supports multiple accounts (currently at seven)
When Outlook 2016 connects to Exchange ( Office 365) to one or two accounts it operates normally. However with six and higher it becomes unstable and crashes repeatedly.
While OpenSource would be nice, it is not a high requirement. But the remaining items are, as a single person needs to access and respond as several accounts at once. Separate programs become inefficient and problematic.
Options that have been looked at already are:
- Zimbra - Not suitable as the task and calendar feature is needed.
- Mozilla - Crashes with more that two accounts, and deleting a email can seemingly take 24 hours
- Inky Pro - Possible and am researching
- Windows Mail - Lacks Calendar / Tasks
- Mailbird - Lacks Calendar / Tasks
- Opera Mail - Lacks Calendar / Tasks
- ...
Still searching and review products.. but I have not found anything as of yet that meets these requirements.
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And yes, I am aware of @scottalanmiller 's thread:
Best Open Source Email Solution but not looking to provide email it's self just the desktop client for organizing email.
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@gjacobse said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
- Zimbra - Not suitable as the task and calendar feature is needed.
What do you mean, Zimbra does that. I'm looking at it right now.
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@gjacobse said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
And yes, I am aware of @scottalanmiller 's thread:
Best Open Source Email Solution but not looking to provide email it's self just the desktop client for organizing email.
Then why mention Zimbra, that's an email server?
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There is no replacement for Outlook, really never will be. Web is what replaced it. Outlook is the lingering client/server piece of Exchange.
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@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
I will look at it more indepth then,... from my reading it appeared to be limited to email.
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@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
There is no replacement for Outlook, really never will be. Web is what replaced it. Outlook is the lingering client/server piece of Exchange.
Sadly when a single person manages email, calendar and tasks for several different people, OWA is not the answer.
What is your response time with synchronizing with O365?
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@gjacobse said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
There is no replacement for Outlook, really never will be. Web is what replaced it. Outlook is the lingering client/server piece of Exchange.
Sadly when a single person manages email, calendar and tasks for several different people, OWA is not the answer.
What is your response time with synchronizing with O365?
With OWA? Instantaneous except for the permissions aspect which takes 10-15 minutes.
Emails I understand but OWA can easily manage other users tasks and calendar events. Emails are also pretty easy to manage with OWA but not as easy as the other two apps.
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The customer has 7 exchange email accounts. That would = 7 OWA's open at the same time, 7 Calendars, 7 Tasks lists. That is 21 Open Webpages, just for email etc.! All of these are busy email accounts and schedules.
Outlook it's self is not built for this. Can't handle it.
So looking for a desktop ap to organize the craziness.
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What if you turn off Cached Mode with 7 accounts?
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@gjacobse said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
There is no replacement for Outlook, really never will be. Web is what replaced it. Outlook is the lingering client/server piece of Exchange.
Sadly when a single person manages email, calendar and tasks for several different people, OWA is not the answer.
What is your response time with synchronizing with O365?
Are all of these accounts on the same O365 account?
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@Minion-Queen said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
The customer has 7 exchange email accounts. That would = 7 OWA's open at the same time, 7 Calendars, 7 Tasks lists. That is 21 Open Webpages, just for email etc.! All of these are busy email accounts and schedules.
Outlook it's self is not built for this. Can't handle it.
So looking for a desktop ap to organize the craziness.
This doesn't seem fair - Outlook wouldn't have 7 panes open for email (I hope) nor 7 panes open for Calendars (I hope) or 7 panes open for Task lists (I hope)... because then you'd have the same 21+ windows open, just that they would all be Outlook inside of a web browser.
So sure, I can see that they might have 7 webpages open, one for each account, then you click email/calendar/Tasks inside each depending on what you want to look at at that moment.
Unless you're really telling us that they do have 21 open windows for Outlook - then I ask you, how in the world do that manage that?
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@Dashrender said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
Are all of these accounts on the same O365 account?
of course not. how can 2 accounts be on 1 account? you mean multiple users on one O365 account?
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@JaredBusch said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@Dashrender said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
Are all of these accounts on the same O365 account?
of course not. how can 2 accounts be on 1 account? you mean multiple users on one O365 account?
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Yes @JaredBusch I was asking if all of these users are on the same O365 account. If they are, then OWA can get access to them all in a single pane of glass. If they are in different O365 accounts, then you will have to use different browser tabs for each, assuming that works - I've seen cookie issues not allow things like that before.
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Think of it this way. Secretary for a sales team: 7 team members, with totally unique email accounts, but she helps answer their emails, coordinates calendars and task lists. So she needs not only to receive but to send as them as well.
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@gjacobse said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
There is no replacement for Outlook, really never will be. Web is what replaced it. Outlook is the lingering client/server piece of Exchange.
Sadly when a single person manages email, calendar and tasks for several different people, OWA is not the answer.
What is your response time with synchronizing with O365?
There is none. OWA is looking right at the server. Nothing to synchronize.
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@Dashrender said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@JaredBusch said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
@Dashrender said in Exchange Outlook Client replacement:
Are all of these accounts on the same O365 account?
of course not. how can 2 accounts be on 1 account? you mean multiple users on one O365 account?
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Yes @JaredBusch I was asking if all of these users are on the same O365 account. If they are, then OWA can get access to them all in a single pane of glass. If they are in different O365 accounts, then you will have to use different browser tabs for each, assuming that works - I've seen cookie issues not allow things like that before.
This is what you need. I use two o365 accounts ... one is @companyONE the other is @companyTWO. Sometimes I've had @companyTHREE asll well.
Never have I been able to have all three of these in one browser, so it's been ONE in Chome, TWO in Firefox and THREE in Chromium.
So, do do what is needed, is Three browsers, and three tabs per for Mail, Tasks and Calendar....
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