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Transfer contacts from GroupWise into Address Book Apps
I work in mainly a PC enviroment, and at my work we run Novell. So GroupWise is our email client and address book. I recently was getting tired of GroupWise' poor performance on the Mac side, and I wanted to use Mail.app on my Macs and GroupWise on my PCs. I also wanted to use the Mac's Address Book for contact info.
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This is very simple. Just open up GroupWise, then open up the address book. Choose to export the address book as a vcard. Transfer the vcard file to your Mac, and then import it through Apple's Address book. Voila, you now have all of your contacts in address book that you had in GroupWise.
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Groupwise -> Mail?
Authored by: friedmaj on Oct 04, '06 08:01:25AM

Sounds good, but how do you access your Groupwise mail via Apple's Mail? Has your IT dept. set up a POP or IMAP server for the Groupwise mail?

I'm in a similar situation, and I currently have all my Groupwise mail forwarded to gmail. That works well, except that the Sender is always me instead of the original sender.



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Groupwise -> Mail?
Authored by: escowles on Oct 04, '06 08:21:10AM

This won't help you for gmail, but if you have a Unix shell account you can forward your mail to, you can use procmail and formail to remove the GroupWise forwarding header. My IT dept has enabled IMAP, but it mangles all addresses with spaces, so I forward all my GW email to a Linux machine (which has an IMAP server) that I check with Mail.app. This is the procmail recipe I use:

:0fw: formail.lock
* ^From:.*YOUR_GW_EMAIL_HERE
| formail +1 -ds

-Esme

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LDAP
Authored by: britrock on Oct 04, '06 10:33:50AM
I'm in a similar situation. My company allows IMAP, SMTP and LDAP access to the groupwise system from within the company network. Sadly though I don't work in the head office.

So I use ssh tunnels to allow secure access to IMAP, SMTP and LDAP. The groupwise LDAP service has been working very well. I am able to get all addresses very easily, and people leaving the company, or new hires are all handled automatically.

SHAMELESS PLUG:
My company actually makes addon-products for groupwise. One of them allows you to export your groupwise calendar as an ICS file, which you can subscribe to with ical. I use this, and then setup an auto-accept rule in groupwise and haven't needed to touch a groupwise client since.

http://messagingarchitects.com/products.cfm?doc_id=1168&p=9&CFID=1594743&CFTOKEN=32054698


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