Our group switched from Deskmail to UW Exchange last week. I won’t address the politics of the switch, but I thought it would be good to write a bit on how things are going for me.

First of all, many of us technically didn’t “switch to Exchange”, rather “Exchange was enabled”. In other words, mail which is sent from within Exchange goes to the Exchange inbox, but all other mail goes to the Deskmail inbox. Why keep two inboxes? I’ll try to explain why I’m keeping both, but first a description of how I’m got my mail client set up. I won’t touch on calendaring, since I’m still trying to work that out.

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