Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:29:50 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacing MS Exchange? Message-ID: <20020523102950.GB40494@juno.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <200205230710.AAA26600@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> References: <200205230710.AAA26600@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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On 2002-05-23 09:10:48, Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> wrote: Hi - > I'm looking to replace an MS Exchange server for a small company. Good plan! > It only does internal mail and the mail client is MS Outlook 97. I want to, > more or less, transparently to the end user, rip out the MS Exchange server > and drop in a FreeBSD IMAP and LDAP server. This needs to support the usual > shared task lists, shared folders and shared contact lists along with email > address books. That would be the way to do it. I've set up numerous solutions like that. I use Cyrus IMAP, OpenLDAP and Postfix. My users generally use Evolution as their mail-clients. That will sort you out on the mail and the address lists. As far as task lists go: I usually work for companies where those things are written in-house. I'm sure you could use a database though, and somehow convince it to talk to the users. Migrating might be a bit of a pain in the neck, especially if you want to do it 'transparently' as you say. Exchange stores data in two *huge* files, of which I still haven't figured out the format. I suggest you configure your clients such, that they store the mail locally while you migrate. Or, you set up an Exchange IMAP server, and 'replicate' the mailboxes on a real IMAP server. > Yes, I've been searching already but most of the info I've found has been > either so generic as to be useless or religous wars. Indeed. - Philip -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.paeps.cx/ +32 486 114 720 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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