[Gllug] Perhaps Newham needs a decent Linux consultant?

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Sat Jan 10 15:49:29 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:33:23PM +0000, Adrian wrote:
> On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:39, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
> > This is still an area that really needs to be properly addressed by a Free
> > Software solution.
> >
> Absolutely.
> 
> >From the client side perspective I have to say relying on IMAP just isn't good 
> enough! Sure you can read the email and - so long as you can connect to an 
> SMTP server - you can send mail too, but you cannot do much else. I was 
> recently in this position and it stretched my support for free software to 
> the limit (have since recovered, pleased to say).

Is it so essential that your calendar be stored in your mail client?
There are plenty of open source calendar/todo-list/workgroup solutions
that can send e-mail notifications etc.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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