Ubuntu for Small Business
Russ
drunkontheamtrak at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 14:04:26 UTC 2005
On 9/12/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > So the problem with e-mail isn't that it is slow (which it sure as heck
> > ain't),
>
> Mostly - my major client's Exchange server has been known to take hours to
> deliver internal mail. A colleague claims to have just received a mail
> after some months - but I don't know if it was either true or, if so, the
> fault of the Exchange server. And to be OS-neutral, another client's linux
> servers can take hours to deliver external mail.
>
> > but that it lacks a reliable method of presence notification?
>
> The Outlook 2003 client (sorry to keep mentioning what is otherwise a POS!)
> has a beautiful notification facility. It pops up a window in the bottom
> right corner that shows title and first couple of lines of message, and
> buttons to delete or open the message. If you don't respond in about 5
> seconds, it fades out. I'd love to see that in KMail (with position and
> duration, configurable, of course - I don't know if they are in Outlook).
> --
> derek
>
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You will probably be able to do this with evolution or thunderbird.
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