Okay, we had a discussion in the past about how it would be nice if we 
could move away from Exchange as a groupware platform. Well, this seems to 
be a damn good start. Not free though or open source though!


>From: Colm Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: [SAGE] Getting rid of Exchange - for real!
>Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:42:42 +0100
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>Hi, folks -
>
>I'm sure there are others like me who are labouring under the curse of
>Microsft Exchange and are seeking ways of getting rid of it without
>losing the client functionality like shared calendars and all that
>nonsense which users get so easily addicted to.
>
>Anyway, I *think* that Bynari have come up with the perfect solution,
>an extension to Outlook which maps all the Exchangey objects into the
>IMAP namespace.  They can supply a suitable IMAP/LDAP server, or you
>can use cyrus and openldap...  it's not totally free software, but you
>don't have to use anything proprietary at the protocol or server end,
>which IMO is a Big Win.
>
>This was sufficiently exciting that I thought I'd tell y'all.
>Exchange is lurking in the server room like some hideous black clot of
>shadow, and I'm really looking forward to digging it out with the Nice
>Clean Power of Unix (well, okay, Linux in this case, but you know what
>I mean).
>
>      http://www.bynari.net/bynari/insightcon.html
>
>Enjoy.
>
>           Colm
>
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