Xobni Alternative For Mac4/20/2021
It simply does not work for an Outlook user at the level where I use Outlook (hundreds of emails a day, hundreds of thousands of emails in the archives).This machine is tightly controlled, monitored and locked-down.
Xobni Alternative Install Anything WithinI cant reconfigure or install anything within this Outlook instance at all.I also have my work Calendar, Tasks and Notes available in the same instance. I have my Personal Calendar (in its own.pst file) overlaid on top of my work Calendar, so I can see my appointments in aggregate for both personal events as well as work meetings. I dont use those additional features of Xobni, and while connected to the VPN, they would simply fail anyway. Xobni doesnt allow me to set a proxy server anywhere, and it cant use the default one as configured in MSIE or the environment. When Xobni hangs Outlook, I have to hard power-off the VM and reboot. I cant shut Outlook, and I cant shut down the VM cleanly, because whatever Xobni does, hangs the entire machine itself. I suspect (and this is just a theory), that Xobni is trying to get outside to the live Internet, and blocks, hanging Xobni, which hangs Outlook, which hangs the underlying VPN, which hangs the network interface, which hangs Windows. I cant kill Outlook.EXE via Task Manager (Task Manager hangs too, and running any other Windows application also hangs, including Start - Run - CMD.EXE and opening Windows Explorer). When I uninstall Xobni using Totall Uninstaller (great tool, highly recommended), and run Outlook in normal mode, all works fine and dandy. I just visited their support forum, and noticed that its been revamped with a whole new interface, and a whole new hosting provider (Get Satisfaction, an ironic name considering Xobni does nothing of the sort for their users). So now my posts are gone, as well as my account, account history and any threads or comments Ive created or responded to. Nowhere on the Xobni blog do they mention revamping their community site nor do they mention any sort of migration path from the old community site to the new one. ![]() Their product is buggy, hangs, crashes and corrupts Outlook and its data. Avoid it and look for other Outlook search solutions ( X1 seems to be gaining in popularity these days). Its a tool that docks on your desktop, and can ferret through all of your email, looking for actionable emails. It then uses something called Task Sense to determine the priority of those actionable items, and sorts them accordingly. I just looked at ClearContexts website and watched the demo video, and it does look impressive. Thats VERY steep. ![]() ![]()
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