[Sussex] MS Exchange replacements?

[Gareth Ablett]

> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:11, Tony Austin wrote:
> > > Tony,
> > >
> > > That's what I'd feared. Thanks for confirming.
> > >
> > > I don't object to web-based calendars, BTW, it's just that some
clients
> > > are
> > > keen to hang onto Outlook, which at the moment means ($$$) MAPI
:-(
> >
> > Some of my users insist on using OL and OL Exp, both will work as
IMAP
> > clients.
> 
> FWIW, I use Evolution by Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) and it's
almost
> identical to outlook in the way it looks and feels.  The main reason I
> use it is to show that Linux isn't that different from Windows (at
least
> from a visuals point), thereby encouraging others to use it because it
> looks like what they're used to.

Tbh I think that Ximian evolution is probably the best email client I've
come across and way better and easier to use then the likes of O and
defiantly OE.

> Ximian also do a ximian-connector, enabling Evolution to connect to M$
> Exchange Servers, but this is not open source AFAIK.

Ximian-Connector is defiantly not open source and is defiantly not free
either but will do the job if you want to pay.



Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
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