Seems like I'm a bit behind on my reading (as this reply
is quite late), but anyhow:
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
>
> OE>> Actually, Exchange interacts quite well with other OSes or
> OE>> mail systems. It supports X400/SMTP for mail delivery,
> OE>> and POP3/LDAP/IMAP in general (and MAPI, of course).
>
> I talked about possibility to implement Exchange functions in other
> program (like, working with Outlook, etc.), not possibility to send mail
> to Exchange server. It's clear that Microsoft can't use it's own variant
> of SMTP - Exchange would be useless as a mail agent if they did. But is
> there something you can put in place of Exchange and Outlook will work? Is
> there open descriptions of protocols and private extensions that Microsoft
> uses there?
You can write your own MAPI services provider, Outlook can use
it to interact with whatever server you want. That's what HP
did with OpenMail (you need to install their Outlook OM MAPI
services to use it with OpenMail, other then that nothing special).
Of course, you'll probably need a mail server with some extra
functionality besides delivering mail (MIME conversions, lots
of server-side processing, scheduling - but that's easy,
Exchange saves that inside a special public folder).
>
> OE>> I hate to say it, but it's a good product (even when
> OE>> not compared to normal MS standards).
>
> Well, I'd hate to say "good" when you have to cash out thousands of
> bucks just to share your fax in local network...
Never used any fax software with Exchange, but all things
considered, it's still a good product. It's commercial, these
things cost money. Check out the price tag on Lotus Domino(/notes) or
Netscape Enterprise Server. Silly quirks aside.
>
> BTW, does anyone knows good working solution that allows to:
>
> 1. Recevie faxes and lately retrieve and print them on NT (better if
> there was also some dating, etc. on them) and also print them
> automatically on arrival.
> 2. Share the fax as Windows printer and allow to print there remotely.
>
> THis could be NT or Linux based, and shouldn't cost thousands of bucks -
> it's just too much for such a simple thing.
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