[rescue] (Offtopic) X-Message-Flag fun for Outlook users

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:18, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Err, maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing, but it seems to me that the
> > minimal charge if you want something more than the trial edition is
> > almost $10k plus $2k a year after that.  Yowch.
> 
> http://www.sun.com/software/products/messaging_srvr/index.xml

> Yes, if you need support, it costs.  I think it runs $50 - $150 per user
> per year, depending on which applications you'd like Sun to support.
> However, if you're willing to support yourself (which you'd do anyway
> with most of the open source offerings), it's cheap-cheap.
> 
> As far as actually using it, I haven't used Sun's messaging stuff since
> the SIMS and iPlanet days, but it was Really Good Stuff back then.  I
> will most-likely be rolling out a smallish deployment (30 or so users)
> of the messaging and calendar stuff in the next few weeks and will
> definitely be switching to Sun's LDAP server Really Soon Now.

I have seen this and I think, even downloaded all the pieces.  However,
it appears, that on top of a bare Solaris installation you need to
configure about 6 different pieces of it, and those pieces depend on
each other.  

I looked around but could not seem to find out exactly what the steps
were and which piece should be installed first.  Then I gave up.

However, it does have shared calendaring and even an OutHouse connector,
which would pretty groovy to have working.

--Patrick