Yeah, I can make the IMAP thing work with Exchange, although it is
periodically a battle to convince people that we really have to have the
IMAP support turned on at all. But Mulberry is very happy with it. It's
really the calendar that's the major problem. I have to use it out of
self-defence so people don't just overwhelm me with simultaneous meetings.
Which means periodically I have to spin up a Windows machine (or RDP to a
terminal server, or spin up a Windows VM on my Linux box), run Outlook, and
make sure the calendar stays up to date.
The address book is also a challenge. I keep meaning to write something
that'll extract all the addresses out of the Active Directory and put them
into a Mulberry address book (which is a plain text format, so not that
hard), but haven't gotten around to it.
--On Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:26:40 PM -0400 Matthew Weier O'Phinney
<[email protected]> wrote:
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
>>
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