-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:33 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: "exchange server" for Linux
At this point in time, no workgroup software, open
source or proprietary
has all of the bases covered.
If you are going to do calendar/scheduling at all, you need to make the changes happen quickly and automatically. The reason it's difficult/impossible for standards-based stuff is that the RFC's only cover wire-level transmission format, not how things are stored or how they interact with each other. So, there are some standards for how a calendar event would be transmitted, and there are standards for how things like that are attached to email messages, but there aren't any for how a mail server or agent interacts with a calendar or notification service. _______________________________________
When I asked about 'exchange' type services for Linux as I had just set up a couple of clients on PCs and Macs (via Entourage) with some hosted exchange servers. The features are definitely nice. I think, however, since it's MS--it means a lot of hassles and unforeseen difficulties as patches arise from patches. In essence, Exchange has "all the bases covered" as you say. What I'm really anxiously awaiting, however, is the Mozilla Sunbird project. When that starts out with some real usable betas and an eventual release, I'll be in calendar/contact heaven!
Thanks for the help all! Corey
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:37 -0700, Corey Head wrote:
When I asked about 'exchange' type services for Linux as I had just set up a couple of clients on PCs and Macs (via Entourage) with some hosted exchange servers. The features are definitely nice. I think, however, since it's MS--it means a lot of hassles and unforeseen difficulties as patches arise from patches. In essence, Exchange has "all the bases covered" as you say. What I'm really anxiously awaiting, however, is the Mozilla Sunbird project. When that starts out with some real usable betas and an eventual release, I'll be in calendar/contact heaven!
Thanks for the help all!
---- I think the point is that no groupware product has all the bases covered - not even Exchange. Exchange has a very desirable feature set but it is a client lock-in product. Outlook is the client. When you use other clients such as Entourage or Evolution, you get limited functionality. When you use other clients, you probably get no functionality beyond IMAP or POP3 (if that is enabled).
Craig