Boss wants Windoze, we need mail...
 

The boss in the office where I am the sysadmin insists on sticking to windows, and I need to find an email client.

What I want is a good, open-source, no-frills, POP3/SMTP multi-user windows-based client that gives me control over where data for each user is stored (so I can put it on the server instead of it being stored on the workstations that users are so adept at breaking).

IceMail looks tempting, but I want some input from others.

Then again, I also want a Linux distro that plays well with my RAID card out of the box (Slackware and Gentoo have already failed that test).

TIA

J

try this
 

hello, try Mozilla Thunderbird. Is thre best! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ You can also share email folder for windows and linux ( if you have a fat32 partition how store data ). Have fun!

fransemail:

let me get this right. With TB (which I have also half-heartedly already looked at) I can use the same folders in a dual-boot machine? Thus I can use it both in Win and Linux as long as they both have access to the partition where the data is stored?

Not bad!

witeshark:

Thanks for the suggestion, but bossman whined about the ads and the nags is Eudora, so it had to go.

phooey.

Thunderbird really looked great for a few minutes...

I can't control where the user data goes, only the local folders. Any other suggestions?

tell boss man you hired him to run the network and computers.. tell him you are doing your job and he will either like it.. or fire you.

give him linux and evolution :)

Ehm.....maybe you don't want to use it but with outlook express/outlook and windows you can change the location of where the files are stored using the control panel mail thingy. As long as the user has access to the network folder they can store there stuff there. But of course.... you may be trying to get away from outlook.

trey:
I would try that but he might take me up and fire me. I don't know what the market is like in Ft. Worth, but here in Conroe the pickings are slim! I spent 14 months out of work recently!

lost:
Outlook does that, yes, but OE doesn't, or else I would be using that. There is a lot to dislike about OE, but it is very simple for the end user.

What about the Ximian (Novell) Exchange program?

You need to enable the web access on your Exchange server, but you can then use Evolution (very Outlook-like, without the crashes and viruses) and keep the mail server for which you've paid out a fortune in licenses.

If you put a lump of coal into my boss's wallet, you would have a diamond overnight.

We haven't paid out a fortune for anything but workstations and a fileserver. We farm our hosting out.

Keep em' coming. I love the input.

You can change the store location but I don't think threre is a user interface as yet - you will need to edit the preferences file manually.

I understang what you are saying.. I was a Network Admin for a small company, I was told when hired as long as I could assure that everything would run and I could fix it.. To do it . I was in the proccess of starting to plan out a linux migration there. Sometimes you have to tell a boss like that, that he needs to let you make the decisions...

However.. keeping your job is more of a priority.

*BUMP*

There is also the issue of software compatibility. We are an architecture firm and use AutoCAD, a program that is written strictly for Windows and will not, no matter how hard I try, run under WINE.

Still happy with the input and still looking for suggestions, guys.

J

Just buy one Windows 200 terminal server with RDP or Citrix and run thin clients on the linux workstations.

ooo I like that!

Now talk my boss into it for me. Do you have any idea how big an architect's ego is? You can't tell them anything. With any luck you can persuade them to do something your way.