And another one.... Indeed, support for pre-2003 Outlook is a major issue for us as well. In addressing the needs of the SMB/SME market, the cost of upgrades is a major issue (and being called a dinosaur by Microsoft for not upgrading doesn't help, either.....)
Scalix does seem the most cost-effective solution. Bynari is spiked by its per-user charge if you go for for the AJAX client, and non-free-as-in-beer server if you only want IMAP/POP3. Scalix's pricing if you don't want Outlook access is very attractive.
The remaining issue it has is unencrypted data transfer (although the signin credentials are encrypted, and this does appear soluble with some messy stunnel work. |