[ale] linux email solution that supports exchange calendar access

[ale at cogginsnet.com (Robert Coggins)]

Geoffrey,

This may not be going in the direction you want to go if you want pure
OSS, but it works well for me at my office.

I am running crossover office with MS OUtlook.  The install was very
easy and outlook performs better on linux inside of cxoffice than it did
when I had windows on the same machine.

I did this so that I can have the calendaring in line with everyone
else.  I even get the little popups when time for a meeting.  It also
runs much like it is a native app in linux, it doesn't have the vm feel
to it while running.  The closest I get to it is when I save a file and
I have to parse through the windows to linux filesystem mapping.

Rob

Geoffrey wrote:
> I've got a client who is primarily a Linux shop.  They were recently 
> purchased by a company where the IT folks continue to refer to 
> themselves as 'a windows shop.'  The bottom line is, they want all the 
> folks at the client location to run citrix/outlook to access their 
> email.  What we want to do is find a Linux mail/calendaring solution 
> that we can have in place that will be able to share calendars between 
> the Exchange server and itself.
> 
> Anyone know of such a solution.  We were planning on using Scalix, but 
> have since found out that in order for the free/busy calendar sharing to 
> work, you have to set up an ftp server and point the Outlook clients on 
> the Exchange server end to the ftp server to view the free/busy info.
> 
> The bottom line is, we need this to work without requiring any work on 
> the Outlook client at the Exchange server end.  It's a political thing, 
> so the smaller the amount of work required on the Exchange end, the better.
>