On 8/19/05, Kevanf1
On 19/08/05, Anders Johansson
wrote: On Friday 19 August 2005 12:53, Kevanf1 wrote:
Hmm, very strange. I worked at a local university until the end of 2000. They too were totally M$ centric including Exchange server etc. I used to use Pegasus Mail (free but not sure if it's open source, doubt it) and it worked a treat. So, surely there must be a Linux OS alternative.
Did you have outlook installed at all?
I think MAPI is actually built into windows proper if outlook installed, so any windows program can use it. The libs are there to be used
There are a few linux alternatives. Ximian Connector for Evolution seems to be working well
It was a few years ago but no, I seem to recall that I did not have Outlook installed at all. I think it was Exchange 5.5 they were running.
-- Take care. Kevan Farmer
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If you can get to OWA form your desktop then you can use Evolution with Ximian Connector to get your email. If the mail admin only allows OWA from outside and requires MAPI inside (the mail admins do it where I work. Why???) then you're probably stuck with using Outlook under wine or from a MS Term Server/Citrix. Someone mentioned i.Scribe and InScribe, I think I'll try those out next week because I really hate Outlook. The interface is the pits and spam filters - ha! I had to install SpamBayes to get real filtering. If your mail admin uses other protocols like IMAP and POP, then you can use probably whatever client you like. John