Comments on: Improvements ahead for Entourage users. Too late for many? http://www.mytechnicallife.com/2009/01/31/improvements-ahead-for-entourage-users-too-late-for-many/ Another Outlet for the Challenges of a Church IT Consultant Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Elliot Wilen http://www.mytechnicallife.com/2009/01/31/improvements-ahead-for-entourage-users-too-late-for-many/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Elliot Wilen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:54:03 +0000 http://www.mytechnicallife.com/?p=34#comment-83 Careful about reporting that Exchange alternatives work with Entourage. Yes, Entourage can connect to POP/IMAP mail servers, but if you want to do calendaring, AFAIK only Exchange and Kerio will work. And that will not change with Entourage for EWS. On the other hand, if your clients are happy with Macs and not wedded to Entourage per se, Zimbra works well with Mac Mail and iCal--or via the excellent Ajax web interface. And while the paid version of Zimbra has several attractive features and options (including Outlook integration), the free/open source version has a quite robust feature set. Careful about reporting that Exchange alternatives work with Entourage. Yes, Entourage can connect to POP/IMAP mail servers, but if you want to do calendaring, AFAIK only Exchange and Kerio will work. And that will not change with Entourage for EWS.

On the other hand, if your clients are happy with Macs and not wedded to Entourage per se, Zimbra works well with Mac Mail and iCal–or via the excellent Ajax web interface. And while the paid version of Zimbra has several attractive features and options (including Outlook integration), the free/open source version has a quite robust feature set.

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