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Chaos Software’s Intellect - Why I Like it
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Posted by Arnold
Mar 7, 2014 at 05:40 PM
Chaos Intellect has rather poor IMAP support, very basic and broken (do not try to use more than one account i.e. Google mail and Fastmail).
If you really wish to use Intellect with POP3, you can setup your own mail server that can pull all external accounts to this local server. Then rules are setup to archive all emails (in/out). Yes a bit of a pain to setup initially, will need a normal WinXP -Win7 desktop (250gb hd, for mailstore and 2-4gb of ram if under 50 users). Mercury Mail is free, easy to setup/admin, good docs and works well.
Found the basic Time and Chaos for PIM, basic CRM with Pegasus/Sypheed as the mail client. Played a bit
askSam is a great application, once the forms and reports are generated of course. Support is now suspect from what can be seen of the website and/or calls. Have been using the application from DOS days (version 3 of askSam) up to the latest Pro version. Have just over 18gb of data across approx 15 databases. When it works it works great. Investigating move to another database, but have not had much luck finding something even close to the features without spending many weeks in the design.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 8, 2014 at 08:46 AM
Terry wrote:
>I was very drawn to Intellect’s ability
>to link emails to contacts but have decided against using it because (in
>POP3 mode) it automatically deletes emails on the server after a number
>of days not exceeding 180.
I think you should not worry about it if you use Gmail as intermediary, i.e. Gmail fetches the mail from your original POP addresses, and then you use POP to get the messages from Gmail to Chaos Intellect.
According to https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665119,1665162
Unless you’re using recent mode to download mail to multiple clients, make sure you’ve opted not to leave messages on the server. Your POP settings in Gmail settings are what determines whether or not messages stay on the server, so this setting in your client won’t affect how Gmail handles your mail.
Posted by Steve
Mar 8, 2014 at 12:47 PM
I have Intellect grabbing mail from 4 IMAP (one is Gmail) and 2 POP3 accounts.
Steve
Arnold wrote:
Chaos Intellect has rather poor IMAP support, very basic and broken (do
>not try to use more than one account i.e. Google mail and Fastmail).
>
Posted by Steve
Mar 8, 2014 at 12:51 PM
I thought I had problems finding a replacement… You win!
Steve
Arnold wrote:
>askSam is a great application, once the forms and reports are generated
>of course. Support is now suspect from what can be seen of the website
>and/or calls. Have been using the application from DOS days (version 3
>of askSam) up to the latest Pro version. Have just over 18gb of data
>across approx 15 databases. When it works it works great. Investigating
>move to another database, but have not had much luck finding something
>even close to the features without spending many weeks in the design.
Posted by Steve
Mar 17, 2014 at 03:11 PM
I mentioned earlier that one of the challenges of testing software or just using it for that matter is there may/are features you didn’t know about. Over the weekend I discovered one if Intellect.
A task can be created from an Email by drag-and-drop onto the Task button. The email is linked to that task. Other emails can be added to that task as reference material or for conversation threads. Not a unique thing I think. This weekend I opened up a task with an attached email. I replied to that email plus forwarded that message to someone else. Both messages were added to the linked emails section of the task. I never knew / thought about doing that.
Kind of nice to keep threads in one place.
Steve