{"id":8367,"date":"2005-12-05T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/05\/pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later.html"},"modified":"2005-12-05T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T14:02:38","slug":"pay_me_now_or_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/pay_me_now_or_p.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay me now, or pay me later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The advantage of monitoring one&#8217;s work e-mail from home is that there is a smaller bundle of goodies to go through first thing Monday.<\/p>\n<p>God willing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually been trying an alternative for monitoring office mail.  There are four options I&#8217;ve found, though I&#8217;ve only used the first three before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Outlook Native<\/strong>:  VPN into the company and fire off Outlook.<br \/>\nPro: Full-blown mail functionality and response.<br \/>\nCon:  VPN connection is subject to glitches and has maximum-length timer.  Outlook is a resource hog.  VPN connection blocks me from my local network (for printing), not to mention CoH.<\/p>\n<p><li><strong>Outlook Web Access<\/strong>:  Micro$oft&#8217;s web viewer for Outlook, visible for our company across the Web.<br \/>\nPro:  Just a browser window (albeit IE).  Calendar access, etc.<br \/>\nCon:  Doesn&#8217;t update folder mail counts well, requiring intervention to make sure I&#8217;m seeing everything.  Kludgy web interface.  Slow to use, very difficult (slow) to view history.<\/p>\n<p><li><strong>Forward key mail to home<\/strong>:  Set up a rule to forward mail from my boss to my home account.<br \/>\nPro:  Minimum intervention on my part.  Catches things that I at least need to pay a little attention to.  Home e-mail (Thunderbird) is always up.<br \/>\nCon:  Misses anything not following the rules.  Most follow-ups require going into Options 1 or 2.<\/p>\n<p><li><strong>IMAP via Thunderbird<\/strong>:  Use Thunderbird to access our IMAP mail server.  Subscribe to the key folders I need to track.  <br \/>\nPro:  Thunderbird is always up.  Solid mail client power.  All key e-mail received.<br \/>\nCon:  Possibly miss stuff that routes to non-subscribed folders; have to update subscriptions if I modify my mail setup.  IMAP folder subscriptions do not automatically update, as far as I can tell, requiring manual intervention (click on folder), which is annoying.<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>That last bit in #4 was part of what was bugging me this weekend.  Otherwise, it worked perfect, and I was able to track some office problems near-normally with just my normal home e-mail client.  Supposedly Thunderbird should do that, though, so I need to figure out where the problem is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advantage of monitoring one&#8217;s work e-mail from home is that there is a smaller bundle of goodies to go through first thing Monday. God willing. 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