8:59 p.m.
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
9:13 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
Ximian's Exchange Connector let's you use Evolution to connect:
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/
There is a FAQ here:
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/faq.html
AFAICR, there is a per seat/connection fee.
HTH,
Marc
9:20 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
You can get Ximian Connector from
http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/ which plugs into Ximian
Evolution. It is not free as in beer or speech and cost about $60 or
so. However, it works very well for me at work.
Read the specs on the product since there are some requirements such as
is needs MS Exchange 2000 or newer and it also needs Outlook Web Access
to be turned on since it uses WebDav.
It will allow you to get your mail, calendar, contacts, etc.
Jim Drabb
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9:52 p.m.
Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
Hopefully it won't be long before Kontact has server support enabled.
Kontact is quite impressive.
http://www.kontact.org/groupwareservers.php
John
12:02 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
If you work in a company where Exchange 5.5 is still in use (my
situation), you can't use Ximian Connector (Connector only works with
Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003).
I've been using Crossover Office:
http://www.codeweavers.com
everyday ever since it's first release, and I'm very pleased. It runs
Office 97 and Outlook 2000 solidly, with only some minor cosmetic
flaws. Agreed, you could just use run Outlook on regular ol' Wine for
free, but I pay the folks at Codeweavers for their Crossover Office,
basically for their installer and for their support should I ever need
it (I haven't). I believe it's about he same price as Ximian Connector,
and it lets you run the complete MS Office suite if you should need to.
Not a prefect FOSS solution, but a workable one for now.
--
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The little pieces of my life I give to you, with love, to make a quilt
to keep away the cold.
10:21 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
Hello all,
As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
Ron
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily
basis to connect to an exchange server.
--
George Farris farrisg(a)mala.bc.ca
Malaspina University-College - Cowichan Campus
10:44 a.m.
George Farris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
>As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
>exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
>download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a
daily
basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also
have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML
interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup
reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested
in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but
haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
10:48 a.m.
Yup post it.
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
George Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
>
>>As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
>>exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
>>download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
> If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily
> basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also
have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML
interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup
reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested
in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but
haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
--
George Farris farrisg(a)mala.bc.ca
Malaspina University-College - Cowichan Campus
12:38 p.m.
George Farris wrote:
Yup post it.
Sorry it took so long, I tried to get a sourceforge project for this but
I was rejected.
Anyway, Lookout is a simple python script that provides pop-up and email
notifications for meetings scheduled in Outlook. Its main requirements
are that you have the Outlook web interface available. It also requires
wget and xmessage, which ought to be there already.
http://people.atg.com/~petere/lookout/lookout-0.3.tgz
Peter
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
>George Farris wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
>>>exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
>>>download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
>
>>If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily
>>basis to connect to an exchange server.
>
>Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also
>have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
>
>I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML
>interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup
>reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested
>in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but
>haven't gottten around to it yet.
>
>I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
>
>Peter
11:05 a.m.
Doesn't Ximian also make a connector (that you can buy) that will plugin
all the more advanced Exchange functionality into Evolution?
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:44, Peter Eddy wrote:
George Farris wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:59, Ron Henderson wrote:
>
>>As much as I hate it, I must run outlook at work to connect to the
>>exchange server. Does anyone know of a client for exchange I can
>>download? It must support, mail, calendar, & tasks
> If it's just email then use Evolution with IMAP. I use it on a daily
> basis to connect to an exchange server.
Or any other IMAP client, really. I use Mozilla Thunderbird. We also
have the outlook web interface installed, so I use that for meetings.
I've written a python utility to screen scrape, from the Outlook HTML
interface, meeting information which is then used to display popup
reminders and to send email reminders. Let me know if you're interested
in this, I've been meaning to make it available somewhere publicly, but
haven't gottten around to it yet.
I know know anything about tasks, though. We don't use them.
Peter
--
Adam Voigt
adam(a)kotisprop.com
11:26 a.m.
Adam Voigt wrote:
Doesn't Ximian also make a connector (that you can buy) that will
plugin
all the more advanced Exchange functionality into Evolution?
Yes, I think so, but I haven't tried it because I don't particularly
like using Evolution and I don't want to pay for software that my
employer should really be providing.
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to
re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I
probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already
discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
Peter
11:31 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to
re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I
probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already
discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
I must say I've used Evolution for years and have never experienced
anything like that. In my experience Evolution just keeps getting
better and better.
--
George Farris farrisg(a)mala.bc.ca
Malaspina University-College - Cowichan Campus
11:42 a.m.
George Farris wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
>Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to
>re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I
>probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already
>discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
>
I must say I've used Evolution for years and have never experienced
anything like that. In my experience Evolution just keeps getting
better and better.
I'm glad to hear that. Still, once bitten...
In any case, I'm happy with Thunderbird, which also works well for me on
my OSX machine. It's nice to have the same mail reader everywhere I
read mail.
Peter
9:31 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:26, Peter Eddy wrote:
Actually, I did really like Evolution until one day it decided to
re-send about 100 or so emails I'd sent about three months prior. I
probably spent an entire day answering puzzled, "didn't we already
discuss this?" emails. I stopped using Evolution after that.
That is pretty funny : )
I use Evolution and Ximian Connector at work. This is at a fortune 500,
and while we have Linux servers, I am one of the few who use Linux for
my Dev workstation. The Oracle DBAs have been coming to me about
setting up some Linux desktops (we have Oracle DB and J2EE on Linux
now). Most likely because of Oracle's big Linux push. Anyway, the DBA
manager came and I set up FC1 for him with Evolution and Ximian
Connector. It worked great...until he looked at his calendar. Ximian
Connector went and popped up a reminder window for each _past_ meeting
for the whole year. More then 400 windows came up. He went back to MS
Windows XP because of that : )
It does work very well for me. However, I have logged a few bug
requests about a persistent crash. _Every_ time I close Evolution, it
crashes under FC1 when I am using Ximian Connector. It is a little
annoying, though not a show stopper for me.
Peter
Jim Drabb
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So, I installed LINUX!
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Davenport, FL USA
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