On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:28 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Moritz Duge wrote: > > > Hey I'm Moritz and I use OpenOffice.org since a long time and I'm > > always trying to tell more people about it. I always welcome it if > > you add new great fetures like the Base-Modul which became very > > useful to me. So in last time I heard about the Mail-Client of > > Mozilla should be integrated into OpenOffice.org. I think that's a > > great idea, because it makes one easy usable and hopefully completely > > integrated package for the users. > > > > But there is one problem about the Mozilla-Mail-Client I have: It > > doesn't support the MS-Exchange-Server or one of it's OpenSource > > alternatives. But this is a very important feature of Outlook > > specially in companies, also the one I work at. As long as you can't > > use an Exchange-Server or something equal with Mozilla it won't be > > realistic for many companies to use Mozilla. So I'm asking why the > > Mozilla-Mail-Client? Why don't you try to integrate Evolution? It's > > It has all the Groupware features to use the MS-Exchange-Server! A > > Windows port has already been started and at Linux it's already a > > well usable program. > > Most OOo users are Windows users and the Evolution port on Windows is > nearly unusable (and nobody believes that will change anytime soon). > And Evolution on a MAC? The brave OOo MAC porters will be very thankful > if they don't need to do another Aqua port. ;-) > > But the good news for you is that we will have connectors to backends > (including Exchange) for Lightning also. As the Sun engineers are doing > the main work here we started with our own calendar backend (Sun > calendar) so that we can use it internally for extensive testing. It > works great! I have no doubt that it will work great also with the > future Exchange backend. > > We see a brighter future for Thunderbird and Lightning as a > cross-platform PIM than we do for Evolution. > > Ciao, > Mathias >
It is nice to hear that the evolution port to Windows is almost useless because the Linux version that I am using is almost useless as well. I for one will be happy the day that I can get back to Thunderbird. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
