[TriLUG] Mail client

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Soo....on topic shameless plug time... 

If you have SOME control over your environment...we 
(http://buni.org/mediawiki/index.php/Meldware_Communications_Suite) now 
support WCAP which is a calendaring protocol that does what CALDAV* is 
SUPPOSED to do but actually works.  It even does "Freebusy" and our 
server sends invite emails.

In this event that you can use the Lightning_WCAP plugin for TBird with 
our server built from the HEAD.  This will give you full IMAP and the 
same level of calendaring functionality that the Outlook/Exchange duo 
give you.  Granted...if you wait for the next milestone release (1.0M8) 
then it will even do so stably. 

There are also WCAP plugins for Evolution and *cough* Outlook.  We just 
are working the most with TBird/Lightning because Evolution is getting a 
bit dusty.  Not a whole lot of activity there...  And it's IMAP support 
is sucky at best.

I just gave a talk about it to DCLUG (dclug.tux.org).  I'll forward the 
slides/audio when they show up.  One of the other developers (Aron) will 
also be giving a chat on this at SVLUG (not on the schedule yet: 
http://www.buni.org/mediawiki/index.php/LUG_TOUR_2007) and I'm hoping to 
get that on google video...  U/F our server kicked a drive the day 
before I left so the site is a bit messy and 404ish ATM.   
(http://buni.org).   I'm the only one who seems to be motivated to deal 
with: infrastructure and documentation... everyone else went back to 
coding the moment CVS got back up ;-)

Thanks,

-Andy

PS.  You can't WINE outlook because the MSRPC stuff isn't in WINE so 
they can't natively support MS-Exchange protocol.

* CALDAV is the ultimate proof that implementation must precede 
standardization

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> Evolution is buggy as everyone knows.  I was using dumped it for
> thunderbird, which works infinitely better if you don't need the
> exchange calander crap and all you need is email.  Saddly I went back to
> evolution so I could sync my palm easier.   If you go the evolution
> route be prepared for some pain every once and a while.
>
> Matt
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>   


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