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Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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You'll need to clarify the question. Do you want:
a) Be able to access your work e-mail and calendar for home?
b) Be able to access home e-mail from work?
c) Be able to mix your work and home e-mail and calendar together some how?
a) Is possible, but not cheap
b) Is completely possible
c) Probably doesn't exist
If it was all MS Outlook and I had roaming profiles, I could access the same inbox/outbox etc regardless if I was at home or at work. The complication is that I have Ximian at home on Linux (which I prefer to use!)
So what do I need on the Linux box to collect the mail from my various ISP's POPS, and make it available to both Outlook and Ximian? Clearly I know enough about this to get myself into trouble :-) so what about imap. Does that make a common interface that either mail client can use?
Is this what Qmail can do?
It would be nice if the task list and calendar was available to both as well.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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I'm pretty sure your employer wouldn't want you storing work e-mail on a server at home, so that's probably not a good idea. You can just setup multiple accounts in each mail client so that they remotely access all your different accounts and display them in the same client. You would need to use IMAP access for that. Also, that will not synchronize your calendar and to-do list.
You could pay for the commercial version of Ximian Evolution, which would include MAPI connectivity and that would allow you to access calendar from home. The data would stay on the server at work, but you could view it from home.
>I'm pretty sure your employer wouldn't want you storing work e-mail on a server at home, so that's probably not a good >idea.
I'm self employed, so it'll be OK :-) The home server is the best place because that is where my DSL connection is. Work connects via the wireless link.
>You can just setup multiple accounts in each mail client so that they remotely access all your different accounts and >display them in the same client.
Yes, that's what I do now. The home computer pulls the emails from the POP but leaves them there. The work machine reads the same POPS but deletes from the ISP server.
>You would need to use IMAP access for that.
???
>Also, that will not synchronize your calendar and to-do list.
Yes, neither does it allow me to see mail sent on the other computer and I gotta delete the spam twice as well!
>You could pay for the commercial version of Ximian Evolution, which would include MAPI connectivity and that would >allow you to access calendar from home. The data would stay on the server at work, but you could view it from home.
So what do I run on the Linux server to allow the MAPI connectivity?
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