--- Forwarded Message from "Mary Ball" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:26:09 -0700 >From: "Mary Ball" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Groupwise and Macs Dear wise ones This is a non language question but one with which some of you may have experience. Are any of you Mac users also users of Novell Groupwise? Our campus recently adopted Novell Groupwise 6.0.1 as THE e-mail (and calendaring, document sharing) software for all (6.0.2 for the web version). While PC users are just generally grumbling at something new, the minority of Mac users are finding that Groupwise is really very inconvenient. For example, to the best knowledge of our IT staff, the Mac version of Groupwise does not, as a default, save Sent Mail in a Sent Mail folder. A Mac user can enable this function.......by logging in on a PC and selecting some settings available on the PC client but not the Mac client. It is also true that our IT staff know less about Mac than PC and that they understood from Novell that the Mac client would be better than it is. The Macheads say that some other functions are not possible at all, though it's hard to extract from sputtering angry people the exact details of their troubles. The Mac users claim they could formerly do all sorts of things with Netscape Messenger, or Pine or Outlook, that are simply not possible with Groupwise. True? I don't know why nobody uses Eudora here. Though I do know that we formerly used Pine, and predominantly Messenger because they are free, and the Unix Sendmail server software was also free or extremely cheap. Question: Are there happy Mac / Groupwise users out there? Are you, in fact, able to do all the mail functions you want? And if so, can I refer unhappy Mac users to some good FAQ site or even human person? Yours, Mary Ball Instructor, French/Director, Language Lab Ashland Univesity Ashland, OH 44805 (tel) 419 289-5945 (fax) 419 289-5791 [log in to unmask]