[H-GEN] Exchange replacement.

[Nikolai Lusan]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:28, Brenton Bills wrote:
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> Hi Guys,
> 
> [ A Brads suggestion, I am now posting to general ]
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> I am looking for an exchange replacement that can be run under linux on the server
> and the clients can use outlook as normal. I have briefly looked at Bynari but
> it looks like that needs an additional Windows machine to run the connector
> software. I also tinkered with the idea that we could use kroupware from KDE,
> but most of the users are using Windows and installing KDE and X would be
> more trouble than its worth, esp if I have to install it on 30 or so machines.
> 
> BTW, its really only POP3 & Calander/Scheduler that they want to share. But
> I have no idea how outlook does this. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
Exchange4linux is still the way to go, check it out at sourceforge. 

BTW the exchange handles email is closer to IMAP than pop3, and the
calender/scheduler is done via the MAPI protocol. It is possible to use
POP3 (internet email mode to outlook) and MAPI at the same time. I
recommend reading the docs on the exchange4linux website, they go a long
way to explaining these things.


Nikolai


P.S. Can we please have the reply-to's back this is getting annoying :)