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Client/Server Email Evaluation - 2004March 9, 2004 Agenda/Meeting MinutesAgenda:-- Discuss team's charge -- Products up for consideration -- Evaluation criteria -- Discuss Test Script Editing -- Propose a timeline -- Determine who wants to examine which product -- Other ideas, questions from the team Meeting Minutes: 1. Charge: http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2004/csemail No changes were made to the charge. 2. Products/Platforms Apple Mail 1.3.x Eudora 6.x Mozilla 1.6 Netscape 7.1 Outlook Professional 2003 - It was suggested that we may have to evaluate the beta version of Eudora 6.1 as it's not ready now but should be by the time our evaluation is over. - We added the following products to the list -Outlook XP, Outlook Express, and Entourage Platforms – http://www.upenn.edu/computing/eval/2004/supported04-testplatforms.html No changes were made to the Platforms. 3. 2003 Team's Criteria Add to This… Spam filtering Microsoft-Apple clients compatibility with various University's mail servers Compliance with the critical host policy using Penn Supported email clients We discussed the Criteria and agreed to edit it at next week's meeting. Mark Sirota agreed to edit last year's Eval Group's Criteria which we will discuss next week. Proposed 2004 Criteria 4. Discuss Test Script Editing We agreed that the 2003 test script could be pared down quite a bit and that the best means to edit the script was to have each member of the team read the script before the next meeting. Each team member is asked to bring with them any suggested script edits to the our next meeting. It was decided we will edit the script during the next meeting. 5. Proposed Timeline We did not have time to do this and will discuss this in the upcoming meeting. March 9-16 ------------- Eval Test Script Analysis March 16-23 ----------- Eval Test Script Editing March 23-April 20 ----Product Evaluation and Documentation April 20 ----------------- Eval Conclusions April 20-27 ------------- Putting final report together April 27 ----------------- Final Meeting 6. Product Selection We did not have time to do this and will discuss this in the upcoming meeting. 7. Questions/Additional Concerns -- Discuss with browser team any products they're looking at that have bundled e-mail clients -- Ask Mulhern whether we need to care about Palm support |
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