Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:43:00 +0100 From: "Christoph Prevezanos" <Christoph.Prevezanos@post.uni-bielefeld.de> To: craig@hotmix.com.au, jhorn@daytona.pi-inc.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Migrating from NT/Exchange/Outlook to Freebsd alternative Message-ID: <199901241543000560.000D71B3@Postfach.Uni-Bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <01C7F728BCABD211860B00C0261004192C4D@ABERDEEN> References: <01C7F728BCABD211860B00C0261004192C4D@ABERDEEN>
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Hello! >I'm interested in hearing if anyone has taken a similar setup to what I >currently use and migrated over to something that runs on freebsd. I have >a NT 4 box running exchange 4 that supports about 150 users. It runs >great, but from a cost standpoint I would love to get something that is >based on freebsd. What packages should I look into? Main needs are... > >1. Email (of course) >2. Group scheduling (sharing calendars and etc) >3. Public discussion folders That should be no problem. We also changed all our NT-Servers to BSD some time ago and everything works fine. For email there is sendmaill as the MTA and many ports to make POP3 and IMAP work. That is very basic and should work almost out of the box. No more expensive license for every single user as with NT! For public discussions we installed a news-server (INN), so anyone with a newsreader can join the discussions. Group scheduling is not that easy because (as I know) there are no free products. One of the best ist the Netscape sheduler. The Client (Netscape Comm.) is free but you have to pay for the server. But it is not that expensive and really worth the investment. If you install "samba" you can also share the files on the BSD-Box with all Win-Workstations. And of course you can put the User-Profiles from Windows on the server, so that the Win-Box is loading it from the net and not the local HD as usual. Greetings, Christoph Prevezanos (Germany) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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