Ubuntu for Small Business

[Russ]

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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