On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > Friends. > > Need your suggestions on setup a mail server. > > It should include pop/imap/web interface > shared calender, tasks, reminders etc. > > Want to migrate a company from MS exchange. > The users use MS outlook and they should feel comfortable with the > new mail server. > > Zimbra and openexchange are too costly for these outlook compatibility. > > Is there any free alternate to exchange/outlook pair? >
Openchange http://www.openchange.org It will have complete calendering and tasks,notes integration very soon. You can use it as Exchange replacement on the server by integrating it with an MTA like postfix or so. People can use MS Outlook on their desktops and the server can be linux running OpenChange. The only company to reverse engineer the MAPI protocol successfully is Postpath which got acquired by Cisco for a whopping 215 million $. But that is not open source. Nobody else has done it so far. Though the entire MAPI standards are open. Microsoft does encryption of its packets and also compression but then it is all open now. No one can say that Microsoft is playing foul. It is our job to sit and reverse engineer. I think it can be done. With proper focus and effort. Solutions like Zimbra and Scalix involve installing MAPI connectors on the Outlook side. People don't like that solution. It is not MAPI on the wire. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
