On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:06:00AM -0700, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> i am looking into an exchange replacement, im looking to have use of
> calender appointments, tasks and mail all through a central server,
> also i have multiple windows based mobile devices syncing with this
> server, i wasnt able to find anything that looked like a exchange
> replacement in ports or pkgs
>
> this is on 4.1 release
>
> was hoping someone here had experience with such and could give
> suggestions on some i might look into
If you want Exchange, with all the Microsoft-integration that it can
provide, just run Exchange. Just don't ask me to admin it, put a sane
MTA in front, and make sure not to misconfigure it too badly.
Yes, as Karsten pointed out, there is quite a bit of open source
groupware available, and quite a few of those are in ports (and porting
the rest is not necessarily difficult). And there are plenty of MTAs
that are much less brain-damaged than Exchange; OpenBSD's default
Sendmail is a lot better. And something like Postfix is even sane ;-).
However, integrating all that with a completely Microsoft-centric
environment takes an unfun amount of work.
In short, what do you really want to achieve? OSS offers plenty of
groupware and some very good MTAs, but no real drop-in replacement for
Exchange.
Joachim
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