Re: [Evolution] Openmail?

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:09, Mark Neill wrote:
> On 6 Dec 2001, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > Isnt openmail a drop in replacement for exchange, by drop in I mean
> > outlook just works with it?  If so then surely the connector ximian are
> > building will also just work.
>
> Openmail's selling point was that it was drop-in compatible with Exchange.  
> We considered suggesting a migration to it at one company I worked for.
>
> If Evo can talk to Exchange, it should be able to talk to Openmail.

My understanding is that it is "drop-in compatible" in a marketing
sense, not a technical sense. I don't remember the details. (Someone
else suggested you needed an Outlook plugin on each client, and that
might be it.)

-- Dan