wine and outlook

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Mike Shaw wrote:
> Already done - but they are not the answer.  None work talking
> directly to an Exchange 2007 server and work with the M$ Outlook
> calender, specifically the shared calendar.  If I'm wrong I'll be
> happy to get the correction, but from what I've seen I'm not.
> 
> The problem is not alternatives, but alternatives that talk to
> Exchange(2007), which there are not any that are free at the moment
> that talk natively to Exchange(not OWA).
> OpenChange(http://www.openchange.org/) may be an alternative but I'm
> not sure if it covers the client side.  The quick skimming I've done -
> it looks like a server solution which doesn't help me since I don't
> control the server side.

I did a quick search that came out with this result, which seems a bit 
old but gives another idea: run a VirtualBox with windows and outlook 
and maybe use any of the remote tricks on that virtual machine? It owrks 
better than Wine but you need the OS.
HTH,
I.

> 
> l8r,
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Geoffrey Bays <charioteer7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike:
>>
>> You want to check out Kontact for Kubuntu/KDE or Evolution for Ubuntu/Gnome.
>> These are both full-featured suites with mail, calendar, address books and more.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Geoffrey Bays
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Matthew Flaschen
>>> <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>>>> O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>> Has anyone tried using Outlook under Wine?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why am I asking - a person has a huge outlook.pst file and we are trying
>>>>> to move her to Kubuntu Kmail. Instead of setting up a new account in
>>>>> Thunderbird (windows) as she is already using that too and then import
>>>>> from Outlook and then move to Kubuntu and import to Kmail...
>>>> Why not just use Thunderbird under Kubuntu?  Then, only one import.
>>>>
>>> I'm looking for the same solution and I can tell you one reason
>>> Thunderbird won't work - calendar.  If your company uses calendaring
>>> extensively and has Exchange then Thunderbird won't work.
>>>
>>> l8r,
>>>
>>> Mike
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