[Tfug] Exchange Mail

[Mike Morrell]

  When I priced them there was almost no difference between CodeWeaver's
CrossOver Office and Ximian Connector, both where around $50.  I really
liked Evolution (use at home) but the problem was that Optical Sciences
did not run MS webdav service that Ximian needed for interacting with
Exchange.  Without it Connector is worthless.  Of course CrossOver does
need you to have a copy of Outlook but thats not hard to come by.  I
have been really impressed with CrossOver and it lets me run a few MS
apps I still need to use (Microcal's Origin for example).
  Both softwares will give you a trial license.  Give Evolution +
Connector a go first and see if it works.  If not Crossover is really a
good 2nd place.


Mike


On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 16:39, Jeremy Rogers wrote:
> Hmmm...  I think I mistakenly said crossover when I meant to say connector.  
> 
> After looking into this, crossover office is a comercial product by codeweavers that allows you to install msoffice (including outlook) and some other windows apps under linux:
> http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/
> You still need to buy or own the app.
> 
> Connector is a product from ximian tha is an extention to evolution (also by ximian, but evol. is gnu) that allows for connecting to exchange as an exchange client (i.e. not pop or imap).  
> http://www.ximian.com/products/connector/
> This enables calandering and all that stuff in addition to email. Ximian Connector is not GNU and requires a licensing fee. I have not yet tried any of the above, so please correct or eleborate if I am wrong.
> 
> Cheers,
> JDR
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	tfug-bounces at tfug.org on behalf of David Spitzer
> Sent:	Fri 12/12/2003 3:35 PM
> To:	'Tucson Free Unix Group'
> Cc:	
> Subject:	RE: [Tfug] Exchange Mail
> What is crossover office
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Morrell [mailto:mike at themorrells.org] 
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:54 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] Exchange Mail
> 
>   Actually Outlook 2000 runs nearly perfect with CrossoverOffice.  I have
> had no problems at all with it.
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> >
> > I haven't used evolution yet, but I thought it could deal with exchange
> > just fine without paying for crossover. Am I wrong?
> >
> > Also, you may want to check if the exchange server is running pop3 which
> > would allow you to just fetchmail and use whatever on your local
> > machine. (This is what I have to do.)
> >
> > -JDR
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:23:11AM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
> >> Evolution with the commercial connector for exchange (iirc it's about
> >> $50/seat).  www.ximian.org
> >>
> >> 			Harry
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:25, David Spitzer wrote:
> >> > What are those choices for (if any) for a client that will connect to
> >> a MS
> >> > exchange server -- I don't want to have to run vmware just for outlook
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