[plug] Outlook

[Michael Hunt]

Or

Get a grunty workstation with at least 96 meg of RAM and an fast Celery or
PII processor and get a license for VMWare. You can then run Outlook on its
own windows drive/OS

Or try wine !!!! (Never looked at the feasibility of doing this having had a
VMWare license).

Michael Hunt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Matt Bruce
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: 'plug at linux.org.au'
> Subject: RE: [plug] Outlook
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Unfortunately there's no "Outlook for Linux", which is a pain for your
> situation, but there are a few options open to you:
>
> 1. You could get your company to install/configure Outlook Web Access,
>    which will enable users to go to a specified URL, say
>    http://www.power.net.au/olwa/, enter in the relevant information
>    in the resulting username and password prompt, then be presented
>    with a HTML/Java version of the Outlook client via your web
>    browser -- complete with Inbox, Folders, Tasks, Calendar, etc.
>
> 2. Forget about non-email stuff, and just use an IMAP-aware mail
>    client (such as Pine or Balsa, I believe).
>
> 3. Again, forget about non-email stuff, get your company sysadmin
>    to install the POP3 support into Exchange, and use a POP3-aware
>    mail client (just about any mail client ever made).
>
> 4. Get your company to spend umpteen thousands on a Citrix MetaFrame
>    solution and a VPN and/or RAS solution, install the ICA Client on
>    your PC and connect to the MetaFrame server and have complete
>    network access and remote display/control.
>
> 5. Install VNC on your work PC or an Internet-live server in your
>    network, and connect to it with the VNC Client. There are SSH-
>    and SSL-aware versions of VNC available. I use it under certain
>    (secure) situations, and it serves its purpose perfectly.
>
> 6. Drop a server-based Rules Wizard/Inbox Assistant entry in your
>    Outlook client to send a copy of any incoming email to another
>    email address (private ISP, Hotmail, whatever), then you can
>    retrieve your email that way.
>
> 7. Drive to work or wait until work on Monday and save everybody a
>    lot of hassle. ;)
>
> Bear in mind the above points don't consider security, firewalling or
> masquerading/NAT issues. As I've no idea of your network
> topology, the above
> is just a bunch of ideas that may or may not apply (or be
> advisable) in your
> situation. I access mine using one or more of the above, depending on whom
> I'm dialled into.
>
> HTH, :)
>
> --
> Matt Bruce  <matt.bruce at alphawest.com.au>
> Internet & Security Engineer
> AlphaWest - http://www.alphawest.com.au/
> --
> "Alwiyht...rho sritched mg kegtops awound??"
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christopher Darby [mailto:chrisd at power.net.au]
> >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:46 PM
> >
> >does anyone know of anything on linux that will allow me to
> >connect to a microsoft exchange server (calender and mail) as i
> >would like to switch my system to linux but the company uses
> >outlook so i am currently stuck......any suggestions
>
>