Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:29:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: paksao <paksao@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook alternative for freeBSD ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908210827001.50480-100000@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <37BEA75F.5875AB0C@home.com>
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The email part is easy enough. BSD on a pentium would easily support smtp and pop3/imap for that many users. Like the other answer said, just have the users point their mail client at the new bsd server. Brian On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, paksao wrote: > I've been playing with freeBsd for a while now at work and I like it and > I'm just starting to get to the point where I understand how it works > but I am facing a crisis and I don't have time to search out the > solution from the man pages and my friends who use BSD don't know the > answer. > > A new manager has come in and he likes MS outlook he thinks it is the > way the company should go with email and inter-office communications and > email. he also likes NT( He never administered it but he considers > himself an expert). After using it as a (fileserver/PDC for 3 yrs I > don't though it may be a function of my not having configured it > correctly. My heart hasn't been in it though I have done a lot of > reading and brought a lot of books.) I have plans to switch over to a > freeBSD 3.2 server, with Samba as a PDC and Run our main database on a > Linux box using Oracle 8. > > But In order to keep from being saddled with another NT server( when I > want to get rid of the one I have now.) I need to provide an alternative > to the Outlook proposal and hopefully a cost effective one. > > I think I have enough pull to get a freebsd proposal accepted but I need > some help figuring out how to implement it or even if it is possible > within a reasonable timeframe. > > additional background > -company has 35 employees will expand to 65 in the next year. > - I am the IS department > - my users don't know Unix,bsd and are only reasonable competent in > windows. > -for email we use Eudora 3.0 and Netscape 4.5 on the workstations but > if the have to learn outlook they can learn to use something else > though they are going to need to have a GUI > -office 97 is the current office suite mostly word, exceland access > - I've done 3 installs ( 2 2.2.8 with xwindows,KDE,samba and 1 3.2 that > is as yet unconfigured) > -the users are using windows NT ws,windows 95 and windows 98 > -workstations are shared forthe most part and the user should be able > to access their files email and hte internet from any work station > > So my questions are: > > Has anybody done this? (Used freebsd to provide an effective alternative > to NT/Outlook.) > > How would you suggest I go about it? The field is preetty much wide open > since I would be starting from scratch ( I would need to buy hardware > and software.) > > Is there commercial or opensource workgroup software for freebsd? > > I probably left some important details out so feel free to contact me > for clarifiction. > > TIA > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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