[Gllug] Linux MAPI client

[Russell Howe]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:27:54PM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> So it looks as though Wine/Crossover support for Outlook 2003 is not
> that far off. That might speed the reverse engineering of the wire
> protocol for Exchange. There seem to be a lot of organisations out there
> with Exchange and no IMAP access, so it would be a very good thing for
> free software on the desktop if clients like Thunderbird could get mail
> from an Exchange server natively, IMO.

Thunderbird would still need TNEF support though, to decode Outlook's
somewhat esoteric attachment format...

I think some kind of Exchange<-->IMAP proxy server might not be a bad
idea (you could always run it locally, if it wasn't provided by the
organisation you worked for)

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