Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Our IT staff are being told by someone new to the organization that it 
>>> is exchange and only exchange.  No forwarding or anything else.  They 
>>> even toasted our mail lists and supports mail lists for a few months.
>>>
>>> No Imap, No pop.  This even upsets our local IT staff.
>> Use the situation to demand a laptop just for the purpose of running 
>> outlook.  Park it next to your real desktop and run synergy so you can 
>> share a keyboard and cut/paste between systems most of the time. It will 
>> solve your problem and the person in charge obviously doesn't care about 
>> costs.
> 
> Sounds like when I was at 3COM and we did basically the same. We had a
> Linux Network for real work with CVS, and a corporate compliant pile of
> crap which was theoretically a ton more powerful so that random US
> offices could inflict lotus notes on us and tell us in the UK that Maria
> in the west california office had brought donuts.
> 
> At that point I left, and shortly afterwards economics caught up with the
> rest of the inefficiencies and market forces did the rest.

If you are just doing email it doesn't make much sense to be locked in 
to a proprietary server.  Unfortunately there hasn't been any real 
alternative to exchange or notes if you need calendar/scheduling tied to 
email.  Our company has widely distributed offices and depends heavily 
on conference calls with everyone calling a bridge number at the same 
time.  I'd never remember the times if outlook or my phone (treo 
w/outlook sync) didn't beep at me - and they change all the time as 
people have to reschedule.  Even if an alternative to exchange existed, 
it would be pretty hard to change all the infrastructure at this point.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com