[WinMac] RE: email and calendars

Harris Meyers(HarrisM[at]npcconsult.com)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:50:10 -0700

Peter,

Since you are already running Netscape servers, I
would recommend Netscape's Calendar server.
Netscape's calendar server work with the calendar
program in Communicator. I use Netscape messenger
as an IMAP mail client and, of course, tie the
whole thing together with LDAP.

                Harris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Darby [mailto:pdarby@chinooksedge.ab.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 1:26 PM
> Subject: email and calendars
>
>
> I enjoy all the questions and comments. Time for me to stop lurking.
>
> We are a school district and have recently converted our entire
> administration from Mac to Windows. We currently use a POP3
> email (Netscape Message server), and have Office 97 on all our desks.
> 1. What is the best way for us to do group calendaring (for about
> 12 people in one site)? Exchange looks like an obvious solution,
> but is this the best and simplest to administer?
> 2. We are trying to maintain our crossplatform access to email as
> 2/3 of our district desktops are Mac, is there a good web based
> email program out there? It would be nice for teachers and
> others to be able to go to any machine and log on without dealing
> with configuration issues (we had this in our old First Class days.
> 3. Is there a bug in Outlook 97 for Windows when accessing email?
> A couple of our office clients who have Compaq laptops
> occasionally get messages about being out of memory and basically
> lock up and won't access the mail. We solve this now by
> accessing the mail once with any other email client and then
> return to using Outlook, which performs fine for a few weeks. Is
> Outlook 98 for Windows much of an improvement over Outlook 97?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Peter
>
>
> Peter Darby
> Associate Superintendent (Technology)
> Chinook's Edge School Division
> Innisfail, Alberta, Canada
>
>

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