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

[Jonathan Eisch]

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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