Pine/Mutt and exchange can play well with each other, if you don't mind not
getting those stupid pop-ups.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 11:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] My company screwed my hopes for Win4Lin
>
>
> On 05 Aug 2001 11:38:10 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:
> > In the depths of that dark day Sun Aug 05, the words of
> Michael Leone were the beacon:
> > > On 05 Aug 2001 15:59:46 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 10:46:21PM -0700, TheDarb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:14 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:22:45AM -0700, TheDarb wrote:
> > > > > > > now. That'd be fine and all, but they are moving
> all of our windows
> > > > > > > accounts to new Win2k domains that require Win2k
> to allow login.
> > > > > > You can do the Win2k logins with Samba TNG (or
> Samba 2.2.x). you don't
> > > > > > need win4lin or VMware for accessing directories on
> the server IIRC.
> > > > > I only need it for Outlook 2k. Hence Samba won't do
> me a bit of good.
> > > >
> > > > Right.... I don't know about the login stuff you
> mentioned above (Samba
> > > > would probably be the way to go there) but if Outlook
> is the problem, can't
> > > > you check out your Outlook mail via POP3/IMAP?
> > >
> > > But you can't get meeting notifications, public folders,
> etc - all the
> > > OTHER, collaborative things that Outlook can do - that
> way. It's not
> > > just a mail client, you know.
> > >
> >
> > The public folders you can access through IMAP.
>
> Not the shared folders of other users.
>
> > Meeting notifications are received as standard emails, but
> you don't get pop-up reminders.
>
> And you can't send acceptances/rejections, nor can you check free time
> statuses of other employees.
>
> > OWA gives you access to your calendar and contacts, although it
> > doesn't have all of the features of the Outlook client
> (including the
> > sending-email-to-100-of-your-contacts-without-asking feature).
>
> Nor does it show any mail folders, except for those under the
> inbox. At
> least not for OWA on Exchange 5.5.
>
> > You can search the address book with an LDAP client, and
> the contacts and
> > calendar are viewable via IMAP, although they just look like emails.
>
> Assuming you can convince the mail admins to activate that feature for
> you. Not all like to activate all those features, just because one or
> two employees want them.
>
> > All this assumes that the Exchange administrators know what they're
> > doing and have configured the servers correctly. If you've got a
> > bunch of paper MCSEs they probably haven't.
>
>
> --
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone
> PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF
>
> Taking a mental stroll through the psychic park of pleasure.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Win4Lin-users mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
>
_______________________________________________
Win4Lin-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
