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About a year or so ago I took one of my clients and replaced their MS Exchange server with another running Icewarp instead of Exchange. This made things on the server side extremely easy. Icewarp does a fantastic job of handling email, Calendar and the other roles of Exchange. However, One problem has always been a pain is the lost appointments or cross posting to other Users calendar. I spent a lot of time tracking this down and finally got it tracked to Outlook. So, I worked pretty hard to clear up the issues. Unfortunately the only real cure I found was to blow away the Users profile and re create it. In time the issues would just come back. In fact, It didnt take that long.
So, Today I moved forward with a test run of the software "eM client". This is suppose to be a direct replacement of Outlook and works with Exchange or Icewarp servers among others. I set it up to trial it for about 2 weeks to a month on one User's workstation.
The install went very well. eM client found the Icewarp server and started importing calendar events and shared folders. Now, At this point I figured I could leave for at least 3 hours or more for the import of all these shared calendars. There is a lot of calendar data and has at times made Outlook just choke. I was supprised that the import of data took really about 5 minutes! What?? Ok, Lets really see what it did. So, I clicked on one of the User's shared calendars that I knew had about 19000 calendar entries. Well, In less than 2 minutes they all loaded. I have to say, I was very stunned. I continued thru the other shared calendars and the same thing - record loading time - 2 minutes or less.
To give some relevance on this, Outlook would normally take hours to get thru all the shared calendars. I could start the sync of calendar data and walk away for a few hours at least and then come back and hopefully it didnt crash.
I did notice that loading multiple calendars in separate tabs or windows is not available. So, I fired off an email to ask about it. I had an answer in about an hour.
Thank you for your email and your interest in eM Client.
Unfortunately, so far we don't have this feature in eM Client BUT it is planned for the next version of eM Client that is planned to be released during the next year.
I have to say that so far I am very impressed at the ease of installation and how fast it really works. The combination of Icewarp and eMClient might be a real winner. However, I have to be careful about getting to excited too early in testing. However, At this point it really does blow Outlook out of the water.
eMClient is available for M$ / APPLE / Linux
https://www.emclient.com/
coffee
About a year or so ago I took one of my clients and replaced their MS Exchange server with another running Icewarp instead of Exchange. This made things on the server side extremely easy. Icewarp does a fantastic job of handling email, Calendar and the other roles of Exchange. However, One problem has always been a pain is the lost appointments or cross posting to other Users calendar. I spent a lot of time tracking this down and finally got it tracked to Outlook. So, I worked pretty hard to clear up the issues. Unfortunately the only real cure I found was to blow away the Users profile and re create it. In time the issues would just come back. In fact, It didnt take that long.
So, Today I moved forward with a test run of the software "eM client". This is suppose to be a direct replacement of Outlook and works with Exchange or Icewarp servers among others. I set it up to trial it for about 2 weeks to a month on one User's workstation.
The install went very well. eM client found the Icewarp server and started importing calendar events and shared folders. Now, At this point I figured I could leave for at least 3 hours or more for the import of all these shared calendars. There is a lot of calendar data and has at times made Outlook just choke. I was supprised that the import of data took really about 5 minutes! What?? Ok, Lets really see what it did. So, I clicked on one of the User's shared calendars that I knew had about 19000 calendar entries. Well, In less than 2 minutes they all loaded. I have to say, I was very stunned. I continued thru the other shared calendars and the same thing - record loading time - 2 minutes or less.
To give some relevance on this, Outlook would normally take hours to get thru all the shared calendars. I could start the sync of calendar data and walk away for a few hours at least and then come back and hopefully it didnt crash.
I did notice that loading multiple calendars in separate tabs or windows is not available. So, I fired off an email to ask about it. I had an answer in about an hour.
Thank you for your email and your interest in eM Client.
Unfortunately, so far we don't have this feature in eM Client BUT it is planned for the next version of eM Client that is planned to be released during the next year.
I have to say that so far I am very impressed at the ease of installation and how fast it really works. The combination of Icewarp and eMClient might be a real winner. However, I have to be careful about getting to excited too early in testing. However, At this point it really does blow Outlook out of the water.
eMClient is available for M$ / APPLE / Linux
https://www.emclient.com/
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