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Email and Calendar Integration

Accomplice is designed to integrate helpfully with the following email clients: Outlook 2003, Outlook XP, Outlook 2000, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora.  In addition, Accomplice integrates with these calendar clients: Outlook 2003, Outlook XP, and Outlook 2000. 

Depending on which email client you choose to use with Accomplice, the email features available to you will differ. Below is a list of the features and limitations for each email client. 

Outlook 2003, Outlook XP, and Outlook 2000
  • All email folders are fully viewable in Accomplice through the email viewlet and panel. 
  • The viewlet updates in real-time to show you emails as soon as they arrive in your inbox.
  • Emails can be sorted by date, sender, addressee, flag, subject, or importance. 
  • Emails can be opened directly in Accomplice.
  • Emails can be easily turned into Accomplice activities. 
  • New emails can be composed directly in Accomplice. 
  • Emails can be deleted directly in Accomplice
  • Emails can be marked as read or unread directly in Accomplice.
  • Your Outlook Calendar is viewable and editable in the calendar viewlet and panel.
  • Outlook Tasks can be synchronized with Accomplice Activities. 
  • Outlook Contacts can be synchronized with Accomplice Contacts. 
  • Tooltips containing the body of the email appear when you hold your mouse over an email in the Accomplice viewlet. 
  • Emails can be attached to notes and activities




    Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora
  • Your Inbox is fully viewable in Accomplice through the email viewlet and panel. Due to certain limitations, other email folders are not.
  • The viewlet automatically updates every 2 minutes to display your new emails. You can also click on the "refresh" button to manually refresh your email viewlet and see new mail.
  • Emails can be sorted by date, sender, addressee, flag, subject, or importance.
  • Emails can be easily turned into Accomplice activities.
  • New emails can be composed directly in Accomplice.
  • Emails can be deleted directly in Accomplice. 
  • Tooltips containing the body of the email appear when you hold your mouse over an email in the Accomplice viewlet. 
  • Emails cannot be opened directly in Accomplice
  • Due to Thunderbird's time format (they use a 12 hour, rather than a 24 hour clock), emails may be incorrectly displayed with "AM" times. 




    How do I integrate with Thunderbird on U3?

    At this time, Accomplice is not able to integrate with the Thunderbird client running on your U3 stick, though we are taking steps to research this with the hope that in future versions of Accomplice you will be able to use the two together "on the go."

    The issue is that Accomplice is designed to talk to your system registry to determine which email client to integrate with. But when you run Thunderbird from your U3 drive, your registry does not indicate this, so Accomplice doesn't see anything there.

    Other U3 applications run into similar problems: for example, if you have Firefox on your U3 drive, and Internet Explorer on your actual computer, then when you click on a url link in your U3 version of Thunderbird, the website will open in Internet Explorer, not Firefox.

    Regardless, we are working to understand the obstacles currently in place, and hope to find a solution in a future version of Accomplice. 



    To choose the email and calendar client to integrate with your Accomplice, open your preferences to the Email and Calendar folder, and configure your settings however you'd like. 






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