[KLUG Members] IMAP Aggregator? (Did Nortel do something that made sense?)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

I've been researching groupware for the office at work, and one of the criteria
is "Unified Messaging" with out Nortel BCM VOIP boxes.  These theoretically let
you browse your e-mail, faxes, voice mail, etc... all at the same time.

Now I'm thinking propietary hell....  so I'm port scanning / packet tracing to
get an idea how it actually works.... Nortel CallPilot is an IMAP server!  Yep,
voice mail, etc... is just a bunch of boring mail objects.

The "swanky" I-crash-all-the-bloody-time client pluging (Win32 only of course)
is just a *REALLY* crumby IMAP client.  It works in Netscape Mail, Eudora,
Groupwise, Notes, and of course M$-Owwwlooooook.

But I'm curious if there is some kind of shim application I can put between the
real IMAP client (IMP, Evolution, Eudora, etc...) and the real IMAP server
(Cyrus) that will "aggregate" these two store and accomplish the same thing on
the backend as their stupid plugin does from the client side.

Configure is ONE place, thats what I like.

Not to mention I discovered that the phone system makes available the extension
setup, etc... as - LDAP!  So the company phone directory some trolls are so busy
keeping up to date, it's already there saying "Use me, please".

These boxes still SUCK,  but these where rather pleasent discoveries.

Adam Tauno Williams
Network & Systems Administrator
Morrison Industries
Grand Rapids, Mi. USA