Phil Brutsche wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > hi > > > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in getting HP's OpenMail > > working on a Debian box? > > I've had a little. > > > One of the features of OpenMail is that it can serve as an alternative > > to M$oft's Exchange Server software, and allows calendar sharing etc. > > between employees in an enterprise. > > It has most of the functionality.
We started to play with OpenMail here; I never could get it to work on Debian, so a co-worker with RedHat tried. After some difficulty, he called an OpenMail rep (I don't have details), who informed my co-worker that the shared calendering doesn't yet work. That's the only reason we were interested, so we gave up on it. This rep said that MS has been less than forthright in providing the information to HP necessary to get calendaring to work. Now mind you, this info is second hand. On a related note, several co-workers came back from a Win2000 week-long class last week, taught by a 3rd-party (e.g. non-Microsoft) organization; the instructor basically said that Outlook (or maybe just calendaring; I don't remember) on Macintosh connecting to an Exchange server tends to cause a lot of problems, which then locks the Windows users out of their calendars until the Exchange server is rebooted. He said the problem was in the Macintosh Exchange client, and that the Exchange programmers at MS don't seem to get along with the Macintosh programmers at MS, which is a large part of the problem. I would not expect HPOpenMail to be any better. Of course, this info is third hand, and my not be applicable if you're not interested in cross-platform solutions with the big three (Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux). -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]