[ale] Using Linux in the not-so-friendly world...

[Justin Haygood]

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If the new online mail system is Exchange-based, you can use Evolution,
it supports Exchange natively through their webmail protocol. I use it
for work (Microsoft based network, though there's a single Linux server
run by me for Subversion, Trac, Apache, and CUPS print server), works great.

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> Justin Haygood wrote:
>> They probably do not apply, however you can state that since you do not
>> wish, and cannot afford to run Microsoft software, that they should
>> accomodate you.
>>
>> However, most email systems still have bridges to standards-based
>> systems. My school's webmail system (webmail.spsu.edu) for instance,
>> allows access from POP3  and IMAP, even though they highly prefer you to
>> use Webmail, and doesn't officially support IMAP at all (They have
>> passing support of POP3, meaning they tell you about it)/
>>
> 
> I am hoping that they keep the mail going; next Monday, though, I will
> find out exactly what it is all about for sure.  That is when they
> "migrate" everything over.  And the classrooms, which are all NNTP based
> right now (even though they are running on Exchange servers, blah), are
> supposedly going to this new "forum" format to "make things even better!"
> 
> Heh.
> 
> But the point, anyway, being that right now, I can use regular software;
> I am not sure if I am going to be able to do so come next Monday.  :-(
> 
> They already know that I use Linux, and Thunderbird, and all of that,
> but they have said that they will only support MS products in the new
> config.  I hope that is just "tech support won't handle Linux but the
> software will," but I won't know about that until it actually happens.  :-/
> 
> 	- Mike
> 
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