wine and outlook

[Mike Shaw]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ignazio Palmisano <ignazio_io at yahoo.it> wrote:
> 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.

Yep - done that but you hit the nail on the head.  If Desktop "owns"
the OS then you don't have access.

l8r,

Mike