On Monday, May 19, 2014, Kirk Cerny wrote: > I am using thunderbird with a Exquilla plugin for an exchange email client
Does that handle schedule/appointments too? Or just the exchange mail protocol? Can it display a calendar to someone when viewing their or someone else's schedule like outlook does? Thanks for the tip! --- Dan On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote: > on Monday, May 19, 2014, Brian J. Rogers wrote: > > > I've used Evolution mail client to connect to Exchange on a number of > > > occasions. I believe the evolution-mapi package should have what you > need, > > > but if it doesn't there is always > > > evolution-ews<http://git.gnome.org/evolution-ews>. > > > I had to compile that once bit it did the trick. > > > > Ok, that's two mentions of outlook style clients. Great. Now, unless I'm > misunderstanding things, evolution-mapi is a client, so I still need to > find an OS replacement for exchange itself. I don't care if it's merely a > separate package to my imap server or if it contains the imap > implementations too. But it needs to handle the scheduling functions like > exchange would. So that if person X sends me a schedule request and I > accept it, then person Y can look over my calendar to see what's up on my > schedule. > > > Anyone got a good recommendation for an exchange SERVER replacement? :) > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Lonnie Olson <li...@kittypee.com> wrote: > >> >> On May 19, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Dan Egli <ddavide...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Someone was asking me today if there were any open source projects that >> > were compatible with Exchange/Outlook (not outlook.com). I had to >> admit I >> > wasn't aware of any off my head, but was sure there were some. Does >> anyone >> > know of one or more? To maintain maximum compatibility, the programs >> should >> > support not only email and news/nntp (client only on that part, I'm >> sure), >> > but should also support scheduling/appointments ala outlook on an >> exchange >> > server, and it would be nice if I could tell this guy that it even >> supports >> > looking at someone's calendar like outlook does. >> >> Exchange supports (and has supported for many years) standard SMTP and >> IMAP. It’s even been enabled by default for many years. >> So nearly any Email client will work fine out of the box. >> >> If the user is looking for the Outlook type experience specifically, I >> would suggest Thunderbird + the Lightning add-on. Or possibly Evolution, >> though it’s shows it’s age pretty badly. >> >> —lonnie >> >> /* >> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >> Don't fear the penguin. >> */ >> > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
