[Gllug] Outlook exchange alternatives

[Jan Henkins]

  Hello all,

OK, this is becoming a bit OT now, this thread is for Exchange 
alternatives, and here I am waxing lyrical about plugging in Thunderbird 
3.1.3 with Exchange 2007... :-) I accept that this is not ideal, but 
DavMail is really cool. I can see how it will be able to help a company 
first of all break their dependency on Oulook even before they get rid 
of their Exchange server. Since DavMail works as a proxy, you can 
basically plug anything with an IMAP or POP3 backend into your Exchange, 
which makes for a nice change. Choice is good.

A quickie on how I've been getting on with DavMail the past hour or so:

* Receiving and syncing mail (in my case more than 6000 messages) - 
slowish but perfect
* Sending mail via OWA- perfect
* Calendaring - good (adding/deleting/sending invites all OK, delegation 
still unknown)
* Address lookup via LDAP - perfect
* Address book - works for Thunderbird 2, not yet for 3.

Impressive, well worth a look if you are Exchange-afflicted.

On 08/09/10 21:16, Jan Henkins wrote:
>    I feel your pain...
>
> I'm caught into the Exchange 2007 thing, and cannot do much about it.
> Currently I have to use the OWA frontend, which is only slightly less
> painful than Outlook itself. After the demise of Exchange 2003,
> Evolution Exchange support (as a result), the dissappearance of the
> Brutus plugin (does somebody know what happened to the Brutus
> framework?? From where I'm sitting, it seems like they were abducted by
> aliens...), I did not have much hope.
>
> However, while I was trawling forums, my eye caught a posting mentioning
> Davmail:
>
> http://davmail.sourceforge.net
>
> It's a Java-based system, and one of it's modes includes a local
> standalone proxy. It connects to Exchange via the SSL OWA frontend. So
> far I can read and send email without problems, still setting up
> Lightning for calendar support.
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Jan Henkins

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