imap?
Lets hope it has imap support or at least pop3
Microsoft is claiming victory in its increasingly personal battle with Google to deliver web mail and collaboration. The software giant has named the Portland Public Schools system, home to 46,000 students across 85 schools, as planning a move to its Live@edu online collaboration suite. The hipster-heavy city's school system …
Long answer:
I think they responded about this once - they prefer ActiveSync and are sticking to that because of "all the other stuff it comes with". IMAP does exist, but only for mobile devices. So you'll need an email client with ActiveSync.
They've also added security so that you can browse your emails over HTTPS (not just the login page) but if you enable that, it will break your mobile device email setup.
Short answer:
NO.
LotusLive is competing hard in the cloud.
Interesting work coming out with Symphony:
http://www.cloudave.com/10117/ibm-lotuslive-symphony-google-needs-to-watch-out/
Pick your mobile with Traveller:
https://www.lotuslive.com/en/catalog/index.php?id=mobile&tab=mobile_overview
I wonder if Portland evaluated this offering?
the local excuse for a college here 'outsourced' student email to?
And which promptly locked out my sister for a month or so from her email account after the first day for reasons that even the college IT support couldn't get out of Microsoft...
(Irony is, for the period she had to use her hotmail account for college related stuff, and that caused issues with all the 'management' crap side of the package)
Ok Portland, so good luck with that then..