On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Harris, Anthony J <[email protected]> wrote: > Outlook is the biggest integration headache for the Linux user, frankly. > I use Linux for my primary desktop, but have had to use the Windows > machine in my office for email because there just isn't a good Linux > option for connecting to an Exchange server. > > I can fake it using an open source product called Mulberry Mail, which > supports NTLM authentication to an IMAPS server even under Linux (which > I've never gotten Thunderbird to do under Linux), but Mulberry is a bit > old, and it still leaves me without calendar access.
My office has been using Exchange Server for the past 3.5 years. I've found fetchmail's IMAP/S support to work brilliantly with it, and I use postfix's SASL support to relay SMTP to the server so I can send mail. This allows me to use the mail client of my choice (mutt), and keep a local archive of all mail. Calendar support, however, is ridiculous. I actually have ended up _not_ using the company calendar, and take the calendar invites and import them into *redacted calendar program*, managing my calendar myself. This makes planning a bit harder for some folks -- they can't introspect my calendar, and don't get "accepted" notifications. However, I aid this process by being communicative about what my schedule is or what meetings I've accepted. I would love to be able to pipe those Exchange iCal invites to a local calendar, and auto-accept them somehow. > > I've tried Evolution several times, but I find it slower than death and > extremely crash-prone, at least the distro repository versions. And > it's a bear to build it yourself from the latest sources, and still > doesn't seem to work any better. > > If the Mozilla project could include Exchange connectivity somehow, in > such a way that it could also link with a provider for Lightening, that > would be a huge leap forward for Linux desktop use in the office. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rubin Bennett >> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:42 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: OpenOffice =~ s/Open/Libre/, and s/Oracle// >> >> I've used it on commercial sites several times, and everyone has been >> perfectly satisfied with it. The companies who have switched away > were >> all wooed away by the charms of Outlook, which brings in the rest of >> it's friends. Outlook is a little like the gateway drug of the >> Microsoft office suite ;) >> >> R >> >> Rubin Bennett >> rbTechnologies, LLC >> 1970 VT Route 14 South >> East Montpelier, VT 05651 >> >> (802)223-4448 >> http://thatitguy.com >> >> "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so > too." >> Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance >> French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Flint [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:12 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: OpenOffice =~ s/Open/Libre/, and s/Oracle// >> >> Dear Josh, >> >> Nice editing. >> >> I do not believe "Oracle" is a regular expression. >> >> Try "Anucle"... >> >> :^) >> >> Regards, >> >> Flint >> >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Josh Sled wrote: >> >> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:24:46 -0400 >> > From: Josh Sled <[email protected]> >> > Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts > <[email protected]> >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: OpenOffice =~ s/Open/Libre/, and s/Oracle// >> > >> > http://www.metafilter.com/96121/OpenOffice-ousts-Oracle >> > >> > Is anyone "deploying" OpenOffice in a government or >> commercial/support >> > setting? >> > >> > -- >> > ...jsled >> > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo >> $...@${b} >> > >> >> Kindest Regards, >> >> >> >> Paul Flint >> (802) 479-2360 >> >> >> /************************************ >> Based upon email reliability concerns, >> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. >> >> Paul Flint >> Barre Open Systems Institute >> 17 Averill Street >> Barre, VT >> 05641 >> >> http://www.bosivt.org >> http://www.flint.com/home >> skype: flintinfotech >> Work: (202) 537-0480 >> >> Consilium _ >> gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) >> valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X >> quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ >> numerantur ^^-^^ > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [email protected] http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
