Hi AVI thanks for you feed back ill have a word with them and see what they can 
do many thanks Gary

> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:23:36 +0100
> From: li...@avi.co
> To: peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Hi Everyone
> 
> gary smith wrote:
> > I am trying to get the school to change over to  Edubuntu but they
> > want to send e-mail by outlook as they are used to it outlook we use
> > for  our school e-mail  but apparently  its accessed by Mapi client
> 
> MAPI is Microsoft's protocol for talking to Exchange servers - it's a
> proprietary protocol and as such isn't particularly well supported by
> things that don't have the permission of Microsoft.
> 
> Evolution tries to support it, but last time I used it (a couple of
> years ago) the exchange translator bit of it crashed incredibly
> frequently (of the order of every few hours). It might be better now. 
> 
> Exchange servers can talk IMAP or POP3 though. Your life will be much
> easier if you can persuade whoever looks after the server to turn IMAP
> on.
> 
> -- 
> Avi
> 
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