The problem with this is that I do not control the corporate email standard. Not to put too fine an edge on it, but I would not have chosen MS Exchange for email servers in large part because they have historically been so unfriendly to any desktop other than MS Windows. From my point of view, infrastructure should always be inclusive rather than exclusive.

In fact, back in the early days of my talking about these topics at places like Linuxworld, I used to carry around a Notes server and an Exchange server in VM's, and set up folks with both in a 3 hour lab so that they could see how the two worked from Linux. Also set up a pure web based server called Citadel for comparison as well.

Since I do not control the infrastructure, part of this Blog has always been about coping with the reality of what is. Not what I would like it to be.