Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > TekBudda wrote: > >> I will likely post some stuff with regards getting something like >> thunderbird or evolution working with exchang...possibly >> blackberries...not sure at this point, but any insights would be welcome. >> > I connect to one of my client's exchange servers with Thunderbird. > There is an option in Exchange to provide a vanilla IMAP access, which > is how Thunderbird sees it. The addressbook gets pulled in via LDAP > (the Thunderbird addressbook supports LDAP lookups).
I have seen some of the stuff on this, but just haven't been able to play with it much lately. I would love to get exchange on my home server just as a test bed...but so far no dice. I to have a time limited demo, but the way things are right now I am betting the demo would expire. There is something called GCalDaemon as well that I have played a little bit with but not recently, so this could be a solution as well. > For Blackberry's I use the Google plugin on my Blackberry to sync > calender data with my FLOSS software and exchange. Sunbird is set to > store my calender in google's calender. This works really well, as long > as you don't mind your calender being stored at Google. I don't think this would work for our situation, both from a knowledge accessibility and a functionality perspective. But I do personal accee GCal via IMAP for my own stuff and have no problem. Now I don't have a CrackBerry so that part doesn't apply. > Of course, Kontact and Evolution both support native Exchange > communication and should do all these things as well. I was not able to > get either of them to work well with Exchange 2007, but I did not spend > a lot of time on this. I have been trying to play with Evolution a bit, but i don't seem to have the options the instructions are looking for. I could be using an older version as well...hopefully going to get some time to do this. I have really worked much with Kontact, but I will look into that as well. I think the Exchange demo I have is Exchange is 2007...so this could be an interesting test. Hmm...maybe there is a prezzy in this somewhere? > If you have Exchange I strongly recommend the BES server. It is not > FLOSS but it does work really well with Blackberrys. We have been discussing this, but because the CrackBerries haven't been very widely deplayed, there hasn't been the necessity for it at this time...but this may be a good opprtunity to start mushing things together as I beleive you can download BES & you get one license for free and additional licenses are around $99. I appreciate the inisights Gustin...any tips on how I should be documenting this kind of stuff in case I want to morph it into a prezzy? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
