Dear Evolution developers, First of all I would like to congratulate you on bringing a great product to life. On my end I have been working hard in promoting Linux on the desktop at my customers replacing slowly but surely MS Windows. One of the biggest complaints I always get is not being able to provide a good replacement for MS Outlook. I have used Evolution for many months now and I am looking forward to 1.0. I would like to replace Netscape messenger, which my users are currently using, by Evolution as soon as it is out of beta.
While recently doing some testing on how to convert them, I found out that while there is a messenger importer, I couldn't start it from the command prompt. Actually I had to first set Evolution using the setup assistant before being presented with the importer. What do you suggested is the best way to convert my users ? They are not sophisticated enough to go through the steps required to set their e-mail accounts and I sure don't want to have to go to each desktops even when using VNC to update each account. This is Unix anyway. One should always be able to go to a shell and run a quick command or perl script to automate stuff. One thing I always disliked about Windows and co was that you couldn't automate things. Always all those darn windows to go through. I hope you guys are not forgetting us, System administrators and solution providers. We want to push Linux on the desktop but we don't want to have the same nightmare than when supporting Windows. Please don't take that message as flame. It is not my intention. I just want to make sure that we are not forgetting what makes Unix superior to Windows is that you can centralize data, automate tasks and remotely maintain systems easily and efficiently. Regards, Pascal _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
