On 1/24/01 12:11 PM, "Jim Colgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> From: Omar Shahine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:43:49 -0800
>> Subject: Re: Possible tip for travelers
>>
>> On 1/22/01 8:02 PM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>>> A recurring question around here is how to keep Entourage data files
>>>>> synched
>>>>> between desktop Macs and PowerBooks/iBooks. It's been suggested that you
>>>>> use
>>>>> removable media for this. Here's another alternative that I think will
>>>>> work:
>>>>
>>>> Better option: set up file sharing on your desktop Mac, enable sharing over
>>>> IP. Then any time you're connected to the Net, you just connect to your
>>>> Mac
>>>> and grab a copy of your data file. (You could also use the aliasing to use
>>>> it live, but God help you with that on a slow connection.)
>>>
>>> I find it much easier to just use IMAP as my main mail store and E'rage as
>>> simply a client to access that remote mail store.
>>>
>>> Thus I have the same mail available from wherever I happen to be connecting.
>>>
>>> And I get to use UNIX's procmail to filter my email before I ever see
>>> it...this is a godsend when I'm traveling.
>>>
>>>
>>> I am bummed about not having a way to easily share calendar events,
>>> contacts, filters, and schedules between machines. Or between platforms.
>>
>> If there were only standards *and* servers for such things <g>.
>>
>> I think SIEVE is the only thing for rules right now. ACAP and the other pref
>> sharing protocol are a nightmare to deal with. Again, this is all about the
>> Chicken and Egg problem.
>>
>> -Omar
>> --
>> Omar Shahine - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.shahine.com/omar
>> Program Manager - Entourage:mac - Macintosh Business Unit
>>
>> "
> I thought there was an iCal "standard" for calendar events. At least when I
> invite others to a meeting and they happen to be PC users using Outlook with
> an Exchange server, they get an attachment. However experience so far has
> shown that the attachment is completely unusable on the PCs. It cannot be
> opened, and drag and drop to the Outlook calendar fails.
iCal is a standard for describing calendar events just like RFC 822 is a
standard for describing mail messages. iCal is not an over the wire protocol
that sits on top of TCP/IP like POP/IMAP etc. However, iCal events can be
attached to RFC 822 messages as MIME parts which is what is happening above.
-Omar
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Omar Shahine - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.shahine.com/omar
Program Manager - Entourage:mac - Macintosh Business Unit
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