Moritz Duge wrote: > Hey I'm Moritz and I use OpenOffice.org since a long time and I'm > always trying to tell more people about it. I always welcome it if > you add new great fetures like the Base-Modul which became very > useful to me. So in last time I heard about the Mail-Client of > Mozilla should be integrated into OpenOffice.org. I think that's a > great idea, because it makes one easy usable and hopefully completely > integrated package for the users. > > But there is one problem about the Mozilla-Mail-Client I have: It > doesn't support the MS-Exchange-Server or one of it's OpenSource > alternatives. But this is a very important feature of Outlook > specially in companies, also the one I work at. As long as you can't > use an Exchange-Server or something equal with Mozilla it won't be > realistic for many companies to use Mozilla. So I'm asking why the > Mozilla-Mail-Client? Why don't you try to integrate Evolution? It's > It has all the Groupware features to use the MS-Exchange-Server! A > Windows port has already been started and at Linux it's already a > well usable program.
Most OOo users are Windows users and the Evolution port on Windows is nearly unusable (and nobody believes that will change anytime soon). And Evolution on a MAC? The brave OOo MAC porters will be very thankful if they don't need to do another Aqua port. ;-) But the good news for you is that we will have connectors to backends (including Exchange) for Lightning also. As the Sun engineers are doing the main work here we started with our own calendar backend (Sun calendar) so that we can use it internally for extensive testing. It works great! I have no doubt that it will work great also with the future Exchange backend. We see a brighter future for Thunderbird and Lightning as a cross-platform PIM than we do for Evolution. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
