... my apologies that I don't have any special difficulties or complaints with Evo 1.4.5 and my Gnome 2.2.
During the weekend I had to try to emulate what I do with Evo, with Mozilla Messenger 1.4.1/1.5, SquirrelMail 1.4.2, Opera 7.3, and Kmail 1.5.3. It was a really horrible weekend, and I'm glad to be back with my Evo. The underlying infrastructure is Postfix 2.0.18 snapshot, Courier IMAP 2.2.2/maildrop 1.6.3 and Openldap 2.2.5 (the latter is not yet ripe for production - use 2.1.25/26 with double-patched BDB 4.2.52 for that). The reason for the emulation-attempt was for documentation that has to be written for "people" at a renowned Dutch high school, who are now to get e-mail. They should get as great freedom as possible to use e-mail from anywhere in the world, whilst at the same time being bound hand and foot as far as spamming and otherwise cheating are concerned (no oxymoron, given the latest snapshot Postfix's possibilities, paired with Courier's maildrop and Openldap 2.2/2.1). IMAP4 is IMAP4 and ensures tremendous redundancy and virtual data security across clients. Marc Crispin, its inventor, deserves the Nobel Prize for something. Probably not chemistry or literature, certainly not the peace prize, since his UW-IMAP, Cyrus and Courier versions are constantly at daggers drawn; hate and despise each other. Norwegian nynorsk poetry fans will recognize Jacob Sande's "I can stand it best, no, *I* can stand it best" in their harangues. What I was looking especially at was ease of client implementation, LDAP/contact/mail quota integration, ease of making and using mail filters, shared directories, speed, offline directory synchronization (where applicable), work satisfaction and general client possibilities such as sending and receiving attachments, spelling checkers, user prefs, fonts, and message format. What I wasn't looking at were calendar, tasks, palm sync and other e-mail peripherals. The result still has to be written up. But an o.k. pr�cis would necessarily be that the competition has far fewer possibilities and ease of use than Evo. With one exception: Evo 1.4.5 doesn't support Courier IMAP's shared directories. Ximian reports that this /might/ be supported for some future release, if someone's feeling like programming it at the time. Pity. What I still have to do - anybody who can comment here? - is to look at the Windows IMAP clients with the above setup. Since those are what most of the high school's clients will be using - unless the people are surfing from some Internet cafe. --Tonni -- mail: billy - at - billy.demon.nl http://www.billy.demon.nl _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
