Comments on: Review: eMclient v2.0

By: LEHSYS Report – November 2009 | LEHSYS Blogger News

LEHSYS Report – November 2009 | LEHSYS Blogger News — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:29:14 +0000

[...] Microsoft Outlook issue is a serious point , Flash on Ubuntu is crazy stupid and the eMclient review is very popular [and rightfully [...]

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LEHSYS Report – November 2009 | LEHSYS — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:28:21 +0000

[...] Microsoft Outlook issue is a serious point , Flash on Ubuntu is crazy stupid and the eMclient review is very popular [and rightfully [...]

By: lehenryjr

lehenryjr — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:39:39 +0000

Ok, tested. Enabling the calendar is the solution to that one, but I
guess I'm showing that not everyone is going to have their calendars
open or setup.
Now, if you added some verbage to say the calendar being enabled could
be the issue.. or if you can test during setup if the calendar is live
or not- just something to give the user some direction on WHY they're
getting the error is a huge step to not getting support inquiries.

Thanks for the responses.

Thanks,
L. Henry Jr.
<http://www.lehsys.com>

By: lehenryjr

lehenryjr — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:32:35 +0000

I'll try that… and report back.

By: michaelburger

michaelburger — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:02:50 +0000

One more thing...
Errors you receive with your google accounts seems to seems to be easy to solve. It seems, that it is just matter of the fact, that you haven't activate your google calendar. Just open your google calendar once and these errors should disappear (see our FAQ). If it is not the case, please let us know on support@emclient.com

By: lehenryjr

lehenryjr — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:45:27 +0000

Sirs,

I want to make sure I clarify this; I think you've a great product and
I've been watching it for sometime now. It's been loaded on my machine-
I'm very excited about the prospects and goals you've laid out. I
migrated to Thunderbird because I couldn't stand Microsoft Outlook
anymore.

My responses:

3. Not knowing the limitations of Facebook, and
taking at face value what eMclient did; I made the assumption- for
this, I apologize.

4. for my example/testing- I was in contacts/Google [I
entered a few for testing], I chose a contact the grid listing in the
middle of the contact form; I can now see the contact information on
the right hand side w/picture of contact. It has the name and email of
the contact I'm viewing/selected. I can't copy the email address from
the preview window, I can't copy the email address from the selected
grid item- I've to open details to get to the email address. As a
suggestion, I’d think you could add options to 'copy contact info'
[name, address, phone, email...] or 'copy email address'.

5. Importing; I think this just needs a bit more wording- just
let us know where it's coming from and where it's going and I think
that will clear up some questions.

6. You mention you can interface with other transports, but I
can't get eMclient to interface with anything other than GMail
[Jabber]. It's fully possible I don't understand your logic on this
feature, but I'm looking at this with new eyes. Perhaps you could
explain more how users are supposed to interface with other transports
other than Jabber?

7. Contact sync was an expectation that was missed, but I do
realize your working on that for the future. Tasks; again could be
overly critical [as my wife says], but Google tasks has become very
popular and eMclient has a strong integration with GMail already.

I'm very impressed with your work thus far, but I just can't use it. I
can't deal with the GMail errors/notifications; from your last release
I know this was an issue then. Even while I've the program, writing
this response, I'm getting errors in a pop-up window that I find
irritating and concerning at the same time.

I'm continuing to watch for future releases and think that eMclient is
ultimately going to be an awesome product. Thanks so much for your
feedback on the review of eMclient v2.

Thanks,

L. Henry Jr.

By: michaelburger

michaelburger — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:47:20 +0000

Hello, thank for your suggestions. I got several comments to some issues mentioned in your article.
1) discussion forum – good point, we are going to put discussion forum on our web in a few days
2) google contacts import – you are correct, in one specific release, this is broken, bug is now fixed and it will be available in the next patch/release (this week)
3) facebook import and emails – there is no way how to get contact emails from facebook, this is security policy of Facebook. There is no service that enables you to import contacts with there emails from Facebook. Despite these difficulties, eM client tries to do the best with intelligent search in your current emails (searching for fitting names)
4) in which menu/control exactly do you miss copy/move contact functionality? If you miss it somewhere, we will add it immediately.
5) about import destinations – you are correct it may be a little confusing where imported data are stored. We are going to add Select destination folder option to all imports (this option is currently available for some of them).
6) other IM services implementation (and Pidgin integration) – we don't plan this because of several reasons.
a) we already support other IM services like ICQ, MSN, Facebook chat, Yahoo etc with Jabber transports (we can even recognize these with appropriate icons etc)
b) we plan to offer jabber account for our users with all these services set up
c) we don't want to implement native protocols on client side because we don't want to patch our software with every tiny change in protocol
7) full Google contact (currently we support only one-way sync) and task synchronization is on our road plan

By: lehenryjr

lehenryjr — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:29:21 +0000

I know that given some time; it'll be great. The programmers are really, honestly, pushing to do great stuff with it. Surely, it's just a matter of time and your going to have a great email client. I look forward to v3.

Thanks for your comments.

By: Kiril

Kiril — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:30:14 +0000

Under construction – there is no other way to describe it- but it does have many many features that i like too – and will be happy to see it working at 100%. Cant wait for some really stable version and the forums are must but the post in there may be pointless as it was mentioned – the inactivity or whats the reason for the lack of answers.