Zachariah Mully <zmully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:10 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: >> Ian G Batten <ian.batten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > However, people don't want calendaring, they want Outlook. >> >> >> This describes exactly the point of view of administrative staff. They >> live in Microsoft Office, and they need a server to support it. That is >> the assignment given. >> >> I was looking at Open-Xchange on the web <http://www.open-xchange.com/>. >> The server provides webmail and MAPI interfaces. The "Hosting Edition" >> (and maybe the others, it is not clear) can talk to Cyrus and includes >> ACL support. >> >> (We're still running both Exchange for admin staff and Cyrus for the >> much larger university community of faculty and students.) >> >> Joseph Brennan >> Lead Email Systems Engineer >> Columbia University Information Technology >> > > Perhaps things have improved since my last foray into this area, but > I've yet to find an "outlook connector" that was stable and didn't > corrupt the hell out of the users PST. And at least with the Kolab > groupware product when I reviewed it, they made several architecture > decisions that completely killed performance and then they went on to > trivialize my concerns. Storing calendar objects as binary attachments > in an IMAP store, effectively making them unsearchable, meant that every > calendar access had to pull the entire store down, process it and > display it. Not cool. I don't know of ANY Kolab compatible client that would do that. Which client are you referring to? Cheers, Gunnar > > Z > > > -- > Zachariah Mully > Director, Systems and Networks > SmartBrief, Inc. > zmully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > p: 202-737-5500 x226 > c: 202-422-8780 > f: 202-737-7577 > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
