Replacing Microsoft Exchange

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 15:39, Craig White wrote:
>> Outlook LDAP integration is
>> deliberately crippled on non ADS setups. Outlook IMAP support is
>> deliberately crippled. So the insistence on using Outlook as the client
>> application and getting open source to remedy deliberately crippled
>> features on a program whose API's are deliberately not made available
>> seems to ignore the reality of the marketplace.
>
> What versions of outlook have problems with LDAP and IMAP?  I've
> used it installed for internet mode don't remember problems
> with outlook2000 with sp1 or newer.  The personal calendar
> even works with emailed meeting requests.  The big missing part
> is support for shared calendars and being able to see other's
> free/busy times.
>

All of them!! Even when it works the UI changes enough for use with imap
that most users will complain about it, at least initally. Users will
complain because their imap mail is in a different tree than their 
pop3 mail was. Outlook's imap client has numerous bugs that cause
problems with a lot of imap servers. Just look at the courier imap
or other imap server mailing list archives for examples.

Outlook has a lot of bugs in it, that AFAIK M$ has no interest in fixing.
Unfortunately it is also the crack most people were sold first, so they
do not know any better and are reluctant to change.

Regards,

Tom
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