On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Ben Rosenberg wrote: br> Yep, I would go with imap and I would setup an internal irc server br> that people could connect to. Windows people could use mIRC and br> Linux people could use everything from xchat to ircII..this would be br> the best solution because AIM and ICQ are HUGE security risks...the br> packets are easy to sniff and going through external servers is just br> silly. :) br> Thought as much with the imap. Didn't think of IRC, but I'm not sure that's what I'm looking for, multiple users would have to be logged on to benefit from it and that would probably interfere with work. Whereas with a local ICQ or AIM setup on the server computer (strictly internal, outside communication wouldn't occur) this would allow a user to send a quick message to another saying, "Have you put that drawing in drawings for review yet?", Have you filled out your progress report?", etc.. without haveing to pickup the phone or write an email to that person. I was looking at jabber, but as near as I can tell, it's clients are linux only, though I kinda get the impression it would support using the AIM or ICQ program to connect to it, but it doesn't actually say I can. If that's the case then that might be exactly what I'm looking for. br> --> The first is, what in your opinions is the best way to make a linux box br> -->running pine and a windows box running whatever to share the same mail br> -->folders for particular users? My guess would be imap, but I'm wondering br> -->what others may think. br> --> The second is, I'm wondering if theres a reliable aim or icq server br> -->type program available to install on a box so that I might allow users in br> -->the department to use to communicate with each other. I don't want it to br> -->be internet dependent as there are only 3 users in the department that br> -->have internet access. Any thoughts on this? br> br> -- br> Cheers, br> br> Ben Rosenberg br> mailto:ben@whack.org br> ------------------------- br> Warning to the Human Race: br> Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear. br> br> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.4+ - Kernel 2.2.16 "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq