[Sunhelp] Netscape Mail Svr on Solaris vs MS Exchange on Intel

[ds]

Grab a copy of Netscape Communicator  4.6 or 4.7 and nab a PalmPilot and
get busy.  If you can get the two working well, then management will
probably get off the Microsoft bandwagon.  We are currently running a
Exchange on NT shop and this is something that you won't like if you are
coming from a Sun/Netscape solution.  *ANYTHING* you do with the
Exchange/NT server involves rebooting and thus, bringing down everyone's
mail.  I don't know about you, but for us, that is 4,400 email accounts
down.  Please don't mis-understand, Exchange generally does a good job,
but after using a Sun/Netscape solution, you will find some of the
Exchange/NT nuances aggravating.

Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> 
> I'm thinking Netscape Mail (the Communicator component) has some palm
> stuff for the windows port.  But I also seem to recall something about
> the palm devices being supported by Sun's StarOffice.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Jonathan
> 
> Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tom Jones [mailto:tjones at statesman.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:18 PM
> > > To: Sunhelp; NES Managers
> > > Subject: [Sunhelp] Netscape Mail Svr on Solaris vs MS
> > > Exchange on Intel
> > >
> > >
> > > Help!
> > >
> > > We have Netscape Mail, Calendar, and LDAP running on an
> > > Ultra1 with Solaris2.6.  Upper level management
> > > is being told they should consider MS Exchange on NT, due to
> > > some executives complaining about PalmPilot
> > > connectivity/syncing (not sure here).
> >
> > It doesn't have much to do with the server, but the integration with the
> > mail client.  The palm software works REALLY well with Outlook 98 and 2000.
> > The reason that it works so well is because of the mapping between
> > applications on the palm pilot and the folders in outlook work well.   The
> > only reason that Exchange matters is that it's designed with Outlook as a
> > client, and thus keeps all of it's information on the server.  I would think
> > that you could achieve similar things with the Netscape solution, with a
> > little bit of research.  This isn't totally clear, sorry, the boss is trying
> > to talk to me...  Let me know if I can provide more details or clarify this.
> >         Greg
> >
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