Yeah, I was hoping that evolution would bring out the best in email systems
around. POP3/IMAP etc only go so far and that's why I like the way exchange
works.
Someone can send an email and by the time the use releases the enter key to
send, the receiver receives it straight away. This is great as it creates
little traffic and quick response compared to POP3 every 10 minutes just to
see if you got any new mail and even then there may not be any.
I was monitoring the syslogs from another site on the net and boy did I make
a mistake. As the users first started getting on the new email system, the
first thing most of them did was change the check interval from 10-15 to 1
minute.
Multiply that by 40 or so people and watch you 64kb ISDN start to light up.
I killed that for a joke.
The other beauty about exchange is how all mail sits on the server and I can
login from anywhere and I mean anywhere and check my mail without POPing and
making copies etc.. It is live and that's it.. I can delete an email on my
laptop and that email on my desktop client will suddenly disappear. Keeping
everything in sync.
I can set up Offline folders and send emails, delete others, move things
around and when I syncronise at work the server adjusts to all the changes..
I really hope that Evolution does alot of these things coz' people like
myself will also liek to put linux my the laptop but have all the good
features too.
Sorry if I caused any flaming and the OT exchange business but just to let
you know what evolution is up against if they really really want to get it
right.
George.
-----Original Message-----
From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:41 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: 'John Wiltshire'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra
Hrrrm,
Apparrently Evolution's Exchange support is getting there,
slowly - they aim, AFAIK, to have it in the 1.0 release, so we
may finally be able to stay with linux and still have all the
lovely groupware crud that Marketing Slime love so much.
just my £^H$0.02 <g>
thom
At some point around Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:54:36PM +1000, George Vieira
spaketh thusly:
> I'm the same.. I started with W98 here at work and then went to W2K and
was
> fine for a while and then the usual happened.... M$ products didn't work
> with M$ products.
>
> So I tossed the whole thing and went to NT 4 WKS as I run it at home and
> it's quite sweet. It's only because I need Outlook for Exchange server as
I
> haven't seen any Exchange Server support under Linux otherwise I would
have
> fully moved over.
>
> Oh, of course I have a 10GB linux partition when I have one of those days.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wiltshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra
>
>
> From: Jobst Schmalenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >Points (proven):
> >
> > * I have yet to hear ONE SysAdmin who *LIKES* NT
>
> I'm an SysAdmin and I like NT. I also like and use Linux.
>
> Some of my frien^H^H^H^H^H associates think I'm strange...
>
> ;-)
>
> John Wiltshire
>
>
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