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Marc J. DeFalco Vice President BNA Computing Inc. Phone: 508-776-8460 Office: 508-842-0844 Ext. 126 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.BNAComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "LHA MIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Q: Alternative solution for Calendar/Scheduler sharing? > We just purchased IMail server v8.0 (after a month of testing) and I am > quite pleased with it (switching from the ancient Qualcomm's Worldmail > server with no support and upgrades) > > Out of 80 users 60 of them are on Netscape/Mozilla email client and 20 of > them are using Eudora Pro 5.2 (I am phasing out Netscape and Mozilla and > switching to Eudora). > > The most important advantage of Eudora for us is that > > a) the received file attachments get separated in a physical folder on your > drive c: (configurable location) therefore even if a user never deletes any > messages for 10 years, the size of his/her email folder will be still way > below 50MB (without the folder of attachments) > > b) > It is NOT Outlook or Outlook Express that 98% of viruses and spywares are > written for all over the world, therefore the chances for a major disaster > LAN-wise are significantly less. > > There are other advantages too, but I don't want to list them all here. > > BUT, some of our employees are missing the calendar, tasks and scheduling > capabilities of Outlook when it's used with MS Exchange server. (They just > simply can not comprehend that Outlook without Exchange server would not > give them what they wish for.) > > According to our budget, we don't have the resources for the hardware and > software that MS Exchange would require for close to 100 users with IMAP4 > (this is why I picked IMail server from several other alternatives.) > > But our employees do really need a solution, that would provide them with > shareable calendar (even better: shareable task with timelines), that would > allow them to setup meetings by simply choosing a time window where > everybody is free (without asking for this info in person or through email. > > Does someone know of such solution for a reasonable cost? (the cost of an > Exchange server that I consider unreasonable for our firm.:) > > Geza > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
