Ubuntu for Small Business

[Matthew Palmer]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:06:48AM -0300, Derek Broughton 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.

That a particular implementation is broken does not mean the general
principle is invalid.  I'm sure I can run an IM server poorly enough for
messages to take hours to get to the recipient, too.  <grin>

> > 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.

That's not presence.  "Presence" is the ability to have some means of
determining whether the recipient of a message may be able to respond
immediately, such as "I am away", "I am here but busy", "I am here".

- Matt