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From: "Bernhard L�der" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SLUG user group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Exchange server replacement.
> Hi,
>
> I wonder, if anyone can recommend a replacement for MS Exchange server.
>
> The challenge is:
> Win98 network with Office 2000 (Outlook2000)
> NT server (holds documents, runs document management system server)
> Linux Internet Gateway (for user smb authentication, firewall, mail,
proxy,
> http....)
>
>
> The users want to have:
> An office wide address book viewable within Outlook.
> Share their calendars from within Outlook.
> Share other folders from within Outlook.
> No extra of different client programs.
>
>
> Linux based solutions I have so far:
> - HP Openmail (not GPL, seems complicated to set up and maintain)
OpenMail is what we use at work. Its moderately solid [it doesn't explode
too frequently], and it works. Our office's standard access client is
Outlook 2000 via the MAPI plugin - and all the colaberation features work...
The main catch22 is that its a X400 system, so lots of messy message
translation, and other things occur to mail thats entered the system.
As for administration, I wasn't around for its installation... but
maintenance is not so bad from what I've experienced so far. Under linux,
you have the CLI tools to admister things [omaddu, ommodu, omaddbb, omstat,
etc]. However, there is a Windows administration client [which is what I've
started using recently now that I have to touch it more frequently], which
takes a lot of the hard work out of maintaining the system [the hard work
being guessing which program you need to do something without the manuals].
Fortuantely, OpenMail appears to be well documented, if you have to time to
sit down and read the manuals.
Cute Features? It has its own Webmail interface. IMAP/POP3 gateways for
other mail readers. An LDAP gateway. A native GUI linux mailreader [which
isn't exactly brilliant, but it works].
To date, my only peave to date is that you can't change user passwords if
they have a client still conected.... oh, and Text Files in bulletin boards
aren't visible in Outlook. [or "Public Folders" as it calls them]... and
Distribution Lists don't show up in the Web Client's address book.
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