[Glastonbury] Calendar manager and Outlook

[Microbitz Service Centre]

thanks for your help

it looks like possible e-smith/debian to do pop3 and samba
thunderbird calendar shared via samba

openexchange is way too expensive seeing as the windows server+exchange
is only a few hundred


ta

Alistair





-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew M.A. Cater [mailto:amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk]
Sent: 22 June 2004 20:31
To: glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Glastonbury] Calendar manager and Outlook



Don't use Outlook, don't let your friends use Outlook and don't get
suckered into supporting Outlook calendar management.

There are (possibly) only three solutions:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (and a good Windows admin)

SuSE/Novell OpenExchange - the Exchange server bit to which Evolution
would normally connect.

This (was) about $1500 for five licences or some such.

NEC OpenMail - bought from Hewlett Packard.
Also very expensive.

Alternatives:

Lotus Groupware/Notes from IBM - $$$$.

Novell/Ximian Evolution - free and an Outlook clone. Calendar should
work fine.

Mozilla Thunderbird - which has popup blockers/spam blockers and has an
extension to support the old Netscape iCal format. If you give them
Thunderbird, move them from IE to Firefox.

Evolution/Thunderbird/Firefox are all multi-platform i.e.
Mac/Windows/Linux.

HTH,

Andy


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