Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-19 Thread amos
Matthew Palmer wrote: And therein lies the rub -- no connectors. Which means no outlook See for instance the last message on the page at: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/78 Indeed free connector for LookOut to let it work with non-exchange servers are lacking, but we are getting there.

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-18 Thread Alexander Samad
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:49:03PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Has any one got any comments on communigate ? I saw it mentioned earlier but no comments First of all congrats. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:08:46PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:49:03PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Has any one got any comments on communigate ? I saw it mentioned earlier but no comments It has a decent web interface. That's about the only good thing to be said

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alexander Samad Has any one got any comments on communigate ? I saw it mentioned earlier but no comments Run away! Run away! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australiahttp://linux.conf.au/ And up in the corporate box there's a group of pleasant

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: It grabs me that the biggest problem free software has in this sphere is that Microsoft have set the bar too high. Everyone assumes that all organisations need all the features Exchange provides. In my experience, LDAP, IMAP and some kind of

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:42, DaZZa wrote: I would dearly _love_ to pitch exchange from the highest roof I can find, but I can't - because the PTB's want their shared calendaring, and they 'aint gonna give it up for anyone. What would PA's do then? If I could find a reliable open source

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread Graham Smith
Another project tied to KDE is Kolab. The majority of which appers to be heavily under development. Information can be found here http://kolab.org/ http://dot.kde.org/1092468813/ -- Regards, Graham Smith - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:41:34AM +1000, Graham Smith wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:42, DaZZa wrote: I would dearly _love_ to pitch exchange from the highest roof I can find, but I can't - because the PTB's want their shared calendaring, and they 'aint gonna give it up for anyone. What

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread O Plameras
Graham Smith wrote: Another project tied to KDE is Kolab. The majority of which appers to be heavily under development. Information can be found here http://kolab.org/ http://dot.kde.org/1092468813/ Horde has KOLAB. It is one of the backend choices. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread Kevin Saenz
I am currently playing with Kolab. I can't get kmail to read or grab my emails. but thunderbird works a treat. I am also trailing a outlook plugin called toltec connector it's US$13 a pop. The only problem that I have so far is that you have to create mail folders under the inbox rather than

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Rundle
Kevin Saenz wrote: [snip] The only problem that I have so far is that you have to create mail folders under the inbox rather than your account, to me that looks messy. I complained about this once with the courier imap server and was told that's the RFC standard. Seems to me that the standard

[SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread pesoy misak
Dear all Well I just got a little story behind this question. I just succeed convince my customerthat trying to do web design using ASP.net to use Linux using PHP yeaaahhh Linux Rulez. now seems I got a bit problem trying to convince this administrator to change all the system using linux. he is

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:49:34AM -0700, pesoy misak wrote: Dear all Well I just got a little story behind this question. I just succeed convince my customer that trying to do web design using ASP.net to use Linux using PHP yeaaahhh Linux Rulez. now seems I got a bit problem trying to

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
most people dont even need all features of exchange. most people (even just for internal mail) will do quite happily with nothing more than a pop3 mail server. even my work, which has pisses hundreds of thousands into exchange and hardware blah blah blah, could easily just use pop3 (even with

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: most people dont even need all features of exchange. most people (even just for internal mail) will do quite happily with nothing more than a pop3 mail server. even my work, which has pisses hundreds of thousands into exchange and hardware

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread O Plameras
pesoy misak wrote: Dear all Well I just got a little story behind this question. I just succeed convince my customer that trying to do web design using ASP.net to use Linux using PHP yeaaahhh Linux Rulez. now seems I got a bit problem trying to convince this administrator to change all the

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Saenz
First of all congrats. Second this rule applies to all systems. Do not convert wholly to one one environment. Honestly Exchange is a good product, the only product that would give it a run for it money would be groupwise from Novell. Also a side note zenworks is more sturdy than microsoft's

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Dean Hamstead
go get the calendar plugin for firefox/thunderbird/mozilla or get it as the stand alone app 'sunbird'. personally ive found sunbird to be good on its own (in windows) its based on the nice open standadrd apple made with ical. ical is a cool calendaring app thats for sure, i love it. use it on my

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: go get the calendar plugin for firefox/thunderbird/mozilla or get it as the stand alone app 'sunbird'. personally ive found sunbird to be good on its own (in windows) Hmmm. This is looking a _little_ more polished than last time I tried it.

Re: [SLUG] exchange server 2003 linux replacement

2004-08-16 Thread Kevin Saenz
And for the people who suggest Novell Groupwise: I presume you're not the same people who bleat about Exchange HTML and RTF emails, because Groupwise produces some truly hideous emails. Hmmm I haven't seen that, I guess it's a config issue. Might be like Domino mail servers. -- SLUG -