Toby DiPasquale on Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:15:31 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Re: GUI Mail? In UNIX?!?


How about a Ximian Connecter in reverse? Is there something like that out
there?

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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, W. Chris Shank wrote:

> so bynari doesn't support any of outlooks groupware functions?
> damn. without that there is little chance of replacing a windows server with 
> linux.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 05:59 pm, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0400, Time wrote:
> > > Call me crazy, but why can't you use mutt for all your mail and have all
> > > the mail centralized in one ssh'able location? 8)
> >
> > I can't because of corporate policy.
> >
> > ("No, you may not forward mail from the Exchange server.")
> >
> > ... and I'm not about to pass my password in clear text in order to
> > use IMAP or POP3 even on the internal network, thanks.
> >
> > > If its because you can't get pics/docs/html encoded mail and that's
> > > absolutly necessary for survival that's a good answer. Although I
> > > usually save those attachments to a htaccess'd directory where I can
> > > then view those attachments from a web browser.
> >
> > Another thing mutt can't do is use any of Outlook's groupware
> > functions. I was led to believe that Bynari Insight
> > (http://www.bynari.com/) could, but it was a lie. (It's actually
> > just a POP3/IMAP client that looks a little like Outlook.) A pretty
> > high percentage of the traffic that goes to my work mailbox (which
> > PLUG doesn't, btw; nor does it for Mike, he just likes using a GUI
> > MUA on whatever workstation he's using at the time to read his mail,
> > which is certainly his perogative)... anyway, much of that mail is
> > meeting requests or the like that Outlook handles automatically by
> > updating my Calender.
> >
> > Say what you will about Outlook's security, it's only running
> > competitor in the groupware market was Novell, and that's basically
> > dead. Exchange does what it does pretty well, from a user point of
> > view.
> 
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