Sending e-mail to the outside world is present in ADempiere and works great for the e-mail notification, alerts, and reminders. We already made use of it in our previous chapter to send mail to the users. However, many a time, it is very convenient to use the full-fledged mail clients like, Mozilla Thunderbird, MS Outlook, Evolution, and so on for two different reasons:
1. More people use these mail clients than ADempiere and there is almost certain probability that an ADempiere user might already be using (and still using) a mail client before and after he/she became an ADempiere user, as well.
2. They are more complex and more complete than ADempiere's Send Mail capability.
The bottom line is that we use them and it would be good if we can have a two-way integration with ADempiere so that things like outbound and inbound messages, tasks, and events can be in sync between both. This gives the user the access to the same data from two different places, depending upon which software...