bottom line ! can i have shared calender, resources etc ... without an exchange server ?
using evolution, i do not seem to even be able to save the calander on an imap server. Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 16:21, levo wrote: > > >>>Get Evolution by Ximian. Not only does it offer a good group schedule it >>>is even compatible with Outlook (mail based schedule) and with Exchange >>>(if you buy the propritery connector). >>> >>> >> I have a lot of windows machines, I need some web scheduluer server. >>To my knowliedge, Evolution is front-end , i.e. it is Client >>Do you mean that Evolution may be used instead of Exchange ? >> > > OK, crash course in scheduling techniques (no not *THAT* kind of > schdule() ;-) ... > > You can work with PIM in two ways: client/server and peer to peer. > > For example, one can use Outlook for schedilng by having all the clients > connect to a server (Exchange) or one can use Outlook in a peer to peer > mode and have each one manage his own or her schedule but be able to > send/recieve apointments via mail. Outlook also has a feature to share > busy/free time via http/ftp/smb. if you use the peer to peer mode, you > don't need Exchange, just a working mail server and a shared file server > somwhere (this can be as simple as a windows share somewhere). > > Evoulition follows a similar path - in peer to peer mode you work in a > similar way to Outlook. > > Now, the really cool part is that Evolution and Outlook share calnders > in peer to peer mode in a mostly compatiable way - they both use a > standart format of vCal. > > So... you can have your windows users use Outlook, have your Linux users > use Evolution and be happy. > > There are some small details to make all this work seamlessly. For > exmaple Evolution for some stupid reason can't save the free/busy times > to a file just send them to an email, but a Perl script to get the email > and save them toa file like Outlook is trivial to write. > > Also, if for some strange reason you want to use Exchange (altough I > would highly recommend aginst it) you can buy from Ximian, makers of > Evolutuion, (evolution is free in both beer and speech sense) a > connector that let's Evolution be used in client/server mode with > Exchange. > > Other solutions also exists (from Bynari systems and HP OpemMail) but > IMHO the method described above is the best. > > If you're interested in what happened in one company that tried to > implment this, the quote on my homepage might be... interesting :-) > > Gilad. > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
