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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] Hexorg 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There’s a hacky effort to make this easier https://github.com/virtuald/ews-proxy

This connects to REST endpoints that Outlook web interface uses and translates it to EWS… which can be translated to IMAP

[–] HrBingR 1 points 1 year ago

That’s quite roundabout. My question is whether or not I’d have the same feature set as I currently do with BlueMail. I’ll do a bit more research, thank you!