[Evolution] Preparing for 1.0 release



Dear Evolution developers,

First of all I would like to congratulate you on bringing a great
product to life. On my end I have been working hard in promoting Linux
on the desktop at my customers replacing slowly but surely MS Windows.
One of the biggest complaints I always get is not being able to provide
a good replacement for MS Outlook. I have used Evolution for many months
now and I am looking forward to 1.0. I would like to replace Netscape
messenger, which my users are currently using, by Evolution as soon as
it is out of beta. 

While recently doing some testing on how to convert them, I found out
that while there is a messenger importer, I couldn't start it from the
command prompt. Actually I had to first set Evolution using the setup
assistant before being presented with the importer. What do you
suggested is the best way to convert my users ? They are not
sophisticated enough to go through the steps required to set their
e-mail accounts and I sure don't want to have to go to each desktops
even when using VNC to update each account. 

This is Unix anyway. One should always be able to go to a shell and run
a quick command or perl script to automate stuff. One thing I always
disliked about Windows and co was that you couldn't automate things.
Always all those darn windows to go through. I hope you guys are not
forgetting us, System administrators and solution providers. We want to
push Linux on the desktop but we don't want to have the same nightmare
than when supporting Windows.

Please don't take that message as flame. It is not my intention. I just
want to make sure that we are not forgetting what makes Unix superior to
Windows is that you can centralize data, automate tasks and remotely
maintain systems easily and efficiently.

Regards,

Pascal








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