Hi, I am new to this group, so pardon my ignorance and not following protocol of the group.
I have been using TB and I think, it's just fine. I have seen people swearing by Outlook's calender. Sharing, public entry, private entry -- is it possible in any open source mail client? thanks, Shraddha Sharninder wrote: >> so if they are not a replacement for MS Outlook, then which open >> source clients are a good replacement for MS Outlook? >> >> > > That depends on what you want out of MS Outlook and how many of those > enterprises features do you really use. > > If you only want email and are happy accessing them over imap/pop3, > any of the open source clients will do the job. If you want to access > email over MAPI, which is the protocol MS Outlook uses, evolution has > a MAPI plugin, which is quite new and still a little buggy, but it > works. Evolution also nicely integrates with the gnome desktop and has > a decent calender application. > > If you want features of outlook like delegation and other advanced > features, IMO, there is nothing like that which is open source. I > might be wrong, though. > > The thing with Outlook is that it integrates tightly with Exchange > server and uses proprietary protocols to do so, which the open source > world doesn't have access to. If you remove Exchange server from the > picture and use something like zimbra, instead, you'd have similar > functionality in the open source world too. > > -- > Sharninder > http://geekyninja.com > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
