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8.0 E-Mailing and Calendering
For reading and managing your mails and events, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop offers you Evolution™, a highly evolved
groupware program, and the GroupWise® Client, a
cross-platform, corporate e-mail system that provides secure
messaging, calendaring, scheduling, and instant messaging.
8.1 Starting Evolution for the First Time
Novell® Evolution seamlessly combines e-mail, a
calendar, an address book, and a task list in one easy-to-use
application. With its extensive support for communications and data
interchange standards, Evolution can work with existing corporate
networks and applications, including Microsoft™
Exchange.
To start Evolution, click .
The first time you start it, Evolution prompts you with a few
questions as it sets up a mail account and helps you import mail
from your old mail client. Then it shows you how many new messages
you have and lists upcoming appointments and tasks, as well as the
current weather and news from news feeds. The calendar, address
book, and mail tools are available in the shortcut bar on the
left.
8.2 Using the GroupWise Client
GroupWise is a robust, dependable messaging and collaboration
system that connects you to your universal mailbox anytime and
anywhere. SLED 10 includes the GroupWise 7 Cross-Platform Client
for Linux.
To open the GroupWise Client, click .
Your main work area in GroupWise is called the Main Window.
From the Main Window of GroupWise, you can read your messages,
schedule appointments, view your Calendar, manage contacts, change
the mode of GroupWise you are running in, open folders,
open documents, and much more.
For more information on using GroupWise, click in the GroupWise Client.
8.3 Instant Messaging with Gaim
Gaim is a multiprotocol instant messaging (IM) client for
Linux, BSD, Mac* OS X, and Windows. It is compatible with
GroupWise Messenger, AOL* Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ,
Yahoo!*, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr*
networks.
To configure Gaim:
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Click .
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Click .
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Select the protocol you want, then type your screen name,
password, and alias in the appropriate fields.
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Select any desired user options, then click .
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Type your server address in the field.
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Type your server port (if different from the default) in
the field.
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Select your proxy type, if needed.
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Click , then click
in the Accounts window.
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Select the account you just created in the
window.
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Type your password in the
field.
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Click .
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