Re: [Evolution] Openmail?

[Mark Neill <mark thisismyown com>]

On 5 Dec 2001, Dan Winship wrote:
> 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.)

That's odd, because the scenario we were presented with while talking to
the salespeople (ok, they were salespeople, not tech people), was setting
up an Openmail server in the domain, letting it replicate from the
Exchange servers, then making DNS/WINS changes to point the old Exchange
addresses at the new Openmail box.  Something that would be difficult to
do transparently if we have to push out an Outlook client to every user in
what was a 7000 person company.

Not to say either of us is wrong, just my understanding when we were
reviewing the software :)