> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Benecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 2:26 PM
> To: Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
> Cc: Denis Havlik; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] I'll be back
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:02:32PM -0400, Zaleski, Matthew
> (M.E.) wrote:
>
> > > :~>My understanding is that IMAP4 is a DL ownly protocol.
> I need SMTP
> > > :~>available if I want to send out from that Exchange
> server. Is that
> > > correct?
> > >
> > > Yes. But, how on earth are these look-out clients sending their
> > > messages if no SMTP server is around? (i know nothing
> about windoze
> > > world, sorry)
> > >
> > I wish I knew less about the Windoze world. It appears,
> although I have
> > not done any indepth research yet, that when Outlook is
> configured to
> > talk to an Exchange server, they use a private protocol
> that is not SMTP,
> > POP3 or IMAP4. Exchange IS capable of all of those protocols, but
> > appears to support another proprietary one for an
> intergrated solution.
>
> What do you expect, this is Microsoft! It's nothing new that no MS
> application exposes it's complete functionality without the
> rest of the
> computer also being MS-only.
>
> There is no technical problem, it's simply politics.
> Microsoft wants to
> kill Sendmail & Co. They do this by putting extra features
> into Outlook
> that you can only use if you are using Exchange as well. And
> because they
> want you to use Outlook as well, they make Exchange talk a
> proprietary,
> secret protocol.
Of course that's assuming I'm right that MS uses a proprietary protocol with
Outlook/Exchange.
>
> > The way our Outlook clients are configured, I can do calendar type
> > activities, like schedule meetings and meeting rooms and
> know immediately
> > the availability of people and resources. It works
> reasonably well. I
> > just wish it would work directly from Linux so that I
> didn't need to run
> > VMWare or Win4Lin.
>
> you can always use the web frontend of Exchange. It actually
> works with
> Netscape. <g>
>
Well, my only concern is ease of getting my meeting appts put into the
calendar. If I use IMAP4 or POP3 to bring my mail local under Linux, I
don't think I can auto-add meetings as they arrive in my mail package.
>
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