On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:15, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Has anyone used the ximian connector for exchange? > > If so how was it?
I bought it and then realized that the Exchange server I was planning to talk to is 5.5, not 2000, so it won't work. Want mine? :-) > > At the office I am so close to switching over to Linux, but the connection > to exchange is the last thing stopping me. I would prefer not to buy a > connector license. > > Does anyone know of another solution? Here's what I've done: On the internal LAN, IMAP access to Exchange is enabled. I found an old PII laptop no one was using and put it on my desk, threw ML9 on it, and set up Postfix and fetchmail. Fetchmail uses IMAP to pull the mail from Exchange every ten minutes and deliver it to my mail account on my server at home. This transfer is TLS encrypted. I then use Evolution to S-POP the mail to my laptop. To send mail, I use SASL to authenticate myself to my home server, which then lets me relay to wherever I want. I would still prefer to get Ximian working because I have to manually deal with calendaring, but this is an acceptable stopgap. Using fetchmail doesn't bork the message headers or lose dsitribution-list email either, like an server-side auto-redirect rule in Exchange will. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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