Re: Having an Evolution and Mail notification Problem?

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Robin Laing wrote:

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.


You are so correct. I have never used any other feature than email. Any calender function was working well with iCal. Even my boss wants to go back to Mozilla as Outlook has lowered his productivity.

The calendar feature really is valuable if (and only if...) everyone who works together uses it to schedule calls, meetings, etc. This will only happen if the boss uses it. When I was running evolution against exchange/owa it seemed to get the calendar right and even tied the alarms into the gnome toolbar clock. But then it broke for a long time and I switched to imap access.

His comment was about the Calender feature that only a few people actually use is the reason by this forced shift. An IT person told me it was a make work project for a particular person.

Besides the usual calls/meetings/appointments that land in individual calendars of everyone involved, we have a 'scheduled maintenance' public calendar where all approved changes to our production networks and equipment are scheduled. That's managed by a group that tries to minimize conflicts and do everything after normal business hours but if anything breaks you can look there and easily see what has changed recently. It wouldn't absolutely have to be in exchange but it is nice that it works exactly the same as individual scheduling and adjusts automatically in response to emailed updates even if you haven't opened them. But again, things like that don't work unless the boss enforces it - and for a small group in one place it might be overkill. We usually have 15-25 changes every evening.

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  Les Mikesell
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