Have a look at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tradeclient
This looks a nice mix of bloatish client but still using standards (LDAP
IMAP)
They have a replacement for Outlook (Linux version)
MS Outlook can use the tradeserver.
I use imap to get to my mail as I find once you use ANY program that sucks
your mail into some local/closed format you are in trouble.
This discounts POP as a viable access method. Even the "leave messages on
server" seems to be horrible work around.
I access my mail from a server using winblows/express, linux/netscape and
remotely using an apache/webviewer. Accessing the SAME inbox and
subfolders.
The frustrating thing is that Exchange will do all these things (giving both
the proprietary outlook type access + imap access + web access) but I
absolutely refuse to run it.
Trade Server looks interesting because whilst you give up the mail to some
monolithic application with it's own database format, you can access the
mail using a variety of protocols. I am a little more relaxed about how the
server holds the mail after I setup a SCO UNIX box with IMAP for about 15
people. If the mail is held in the old fashioned mailbox format, IMAP
absolutley flogs the disk/io system trying to keep the folders synched
hence a little more respect from me as to why exchange kills an NT system).
The tradeclient setup for outlook is to set it up in the light weight
internet only engine configuration.
Calendars don;t seem to be shared though as they use the "publish free/busy
time" method. Looks like it syncs with icalendar on the Linux box, which
makes me hopefull that some other calendar programs will be able to share
the data.
SO perhaps I can get close to the holy grail, dual boot winblows/Linux
access mail *AND* calendar + sync with my palm and my new ericcson R320S
Ian. (more toys, more toys......)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Biddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2000 9:11 PM
Subject: [SLUG] HP OpenMail
> Any of you guys played around with OpenMail yet ?
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
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>
> Jon
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