It is a pity some the open source email projects only endorse open protocol and do not bother to implement the proprietary Microsoft email protocol MAPI.
So far, I have resorted to command email client supporting POP3/SMTP to remotely access my company emails (not IMAP support yet).
Because of the limitation of POP3/SMTP, my email access at home is not working as a sychronized copy of my company email store.
For example,
- Using POP3, I must configure the email client to "keep the emails after downloading". Otherwise, when I check in my company email again, I will find some of my emails are removed from the inbox.
- However, I cannot delete any junk email or processed emails at home and keep my company inbox growing after long out-of-office period. Worst still, my company has set up an inbox rules that limit my email activities after the inbox has reached a certain size (an unreasonably low figure)
- If I need to send emails out at home, I must "cc" myself so that my company email has a replicate copy. This even makes my company inbox bigger and bigger.
- I cannot use the other Outlook "advanced" features, like Out-of-Office assistant
To solve problem (2), I now use Magic Mail Monitor to directly remove junk or processes emails at my company inbox.
To solve problem (4), I use MFCMAPI
But since my home PC has no Outlook, I need to download "Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1" first so that MFCMAPI can allow me to create a new Exchange profile. Please refer to the thread at serverfault.com
