Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

Matt Navarre mnavarre at cox.net
Mon Jul 26 20:04:41 PDT 2004


On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:42, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > As mentioned before, FreeBSD is NOT Linux. Keep that in mind.
> >
> > > I've flipped through your FAQ's and over forums but result in no
> > > answer for Active Directory 2K3 and Exchange 2K3 server client
> > > connectivity, integration and functionality? Note that we have not
> > > moved to these product versions yet. Hence this email.
> >
> > KDE's Kmail can connect to Exchange servers, I believe. As for
> > logging into active directory ... That doesn't exist AFAIK. Perhaps
> > there are programs that allow such things, but I wouldn't count on
> > that. Windows is an excellent OS for integration with Active
> > Directory.
>
> AFAIK sylpheed-claws can too... IIRC Exchange is imap... or
> something...

Ximian just open-sourced their Connector plug-in for Evolution. Works great 
for email at least, I never really needed any of the other bells, whistles, 
chrome or gewgaws that MS put in Outlook, so I don't know how well it handles 
things like calendars and whatnot. But it's a place to start.

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 and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind
 of thing doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould


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