Adam Flinton wrote: > > I would say most. The friend of mine who suggested it has at present Win2K + > Exchange + Windows desktop users. > > He (& the company he works for) would like to move to LDAP for the address > book etc + Postfix + IMAP. What is stopping this is the inability of the > Windows mail clients to filter IMAP messages.
Well, that's the problem with the clients. Outlook and Outlook express should be dumped anyway. LDAP support in Outlook and Outlook express isn't very good (say compared to mozilla or even better, evolution). Please, have him giv mozilla a shot. It rocks for IMAP. Don't shoot down a linux-based setup because MS clients suck at anything the don't sell the only servers for. > > It won't happen without it & as such he is looking to have to write some > sort of web (possibly PHP) based thing to allow this using Procmail. He (as > a windows admin) is amazed that he can't find anything like this already in > existence. > > I don't think he is alone in this i.e. wanting a Linux mail / internet > services server but keeping the Windows clients at least so that any move is > a steady migration. Quite simply given the volume of cr*p that comes into > many people's inboxes the inability to to this in an easy GUI/Web way is a > major negative factor against the move. Well, have him install some server-side spam traps. -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
