Petr, We handle IT for many small businesses and have found that changing habits, especially around email, is a very tough thing to do. We have some companies where we have switched them from Outlook checking a POP mailbox to Outlook checking an Exchange mailbox.
The change involved the same email client, extremely similar layout, huge benefits in the safety of their email and yet there was still big pushback and complaints because now they had a 1GB limit on their mailbox when before their limit was only how much drive space they have on their machine or when Outlook began to corrupt the data storage files. Both of the previous two problems were seen by the end users as 'IT Department Problems' while keeping their mailboxes below 1GB was seen as 'a new burden on them'. While I don't want to sound like I am discouraging anyone from using Chandler, I just wanted to give a real world view on everyday business people and how difficult it is to change their working habits. One day we will all be freed from proprietary storage formats and be able to use whichever client we like (and hopefully with a large number of web clients for the same data) - but until then the incompatibilities between mail systems are huge. The Outlook/Exchange marriage is one maintained by a company who focuses intensely on the interaction between their own solutions (Microsoft), while this will change as competitive pressures force more openness and collaboration in business - for the time being getting Exchange to play nicely with any other client is a very difficult task. I only know of one company that has accomplished the opposite task - getting Outlook to play nice with something other than Exchange - http://www.postpath.com/ [I am dying to see a grid based hosted provider of postpath] Hope that is helpful, | Larry Velez | www.sinu.com | -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petr Prikryl Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [General] Just met with Chandler -- questions to clarify... Hi, I have just found the Chandler project and I am reading the various documentation. I am very interested in it. I like the intention and also the used technology. If possible, I would like to use it in my environment. For that, I need some clarification. I am working in a small software company and the working environment is based on MS Windows Small Bussiness Server 2003 with MS Exchange and Windows XP workstations with MS Outlook. I cannot change it. My first question is: Is this the correct mailing list to ask the following questions? 2) Is it possible to use Chandler as is instead of MS Outlook? I am using Outlook 2003 only in very simplistic way -- sending and receiving mail, using the default spam filter and the rules to move the incoming mail into folders on my local disk. (Moreover, the rules magically stopped to be launched automatically.) So, the core of the question is if Chandler can replace the Outlook and communicate with MS Exchange. 3) Is there a migration tool from MS Outlook to Chandler? (Moving stored posts from Outlook's repository, accessing the address book, etc.) Just now, I am the first here to use the Chandler. I need to use individually first and to decide, whether others may benefit from its usage. If it proves to be useful replacement as a mail client, I will try to penetrate it to the rest of the company. I have some plans and vision with Chandler. The ideal would be if they fit with the company interests. Thanks for your time and experience, Petr Prikryl (pepr) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "General" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/general _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "General" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/general
