On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 10:40 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > > I didn't see the entire post so my apologies if I'm off-track here. Have > > you > > looked at Kolab ? > > > > http://www.kolab.org/ > > I hadn't seen that, thanks. It looks good but again you're required to > use a pay plugin for Outlook. :-( > > I wonder how much work there would be in creating a client similar to > Outlook which would use regular old IMAP and LDAP for the same features > that Outlook + Exchange have? Maybe porting Evolution to Win32? ---- perhaps you need to adjust the thought pattern a bit here. Maybe it's justifiable to have to pay for the right to integrate a proprietary product (Outlook) into an open system. After all, Outlook really exists to sell their Exchange server and it is a really poorly behaved beast on IMAP. The thing that seems to be the seducer is that it integrates a PIM and exhanges with handhelds as opposed to separately endowed applications which are often better and more flexible solutions. The Toltec connector (as recommended by Kolab) is cheaper than the OXLook connector on openXchange. IMAP and LDAP aren't really the big issues - the issues seem to more like the interconnects for various handheld devices and variety of protocols for the various daemons such as WebDAV as you have not only the IMAP & LDAP server but you have data storage for tasks/calendar/memo objects. One of the more interesting aspects of openXchange is that it supports open standards and thus allows you to use various calendar programs, etc. Craig
