From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 21 19:42:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D8437B424; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA04981; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:42:27 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAkma4Nj; Mon May 21 19:42:17 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19765; Mon, 21 May 2001 19:45:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200105220245.TAA19765@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Exchange substitute To: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 02:45:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar (Fernando P . Schapachnik), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG (please don't continue on) In-Reply-To: from "Jeremy C. Reed" at May 18, 2001 12:32:59 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Sendmail + Cyrus IMAP from ports will do the job. > > This will do the shared/group calendaring? It will transport Microsoft TNEF files as MIME attachments, which lets you calendar between OutLook users. > > Are you using any esorteric features of Excahnge that we > > should know about? You may also need to add OpenLDAP 2.0 > > or other software, if you are. > > I also am curious about this. On Tuesday, I gave a presentation about BSD, > open source, and Linux; and some of the audience asked me about > alternatives for MS Exchange/Outlook -- in particular they were interested > in providing shared calendars. (I guess this is called "groupware".) > I have only heard about evolution, so it was my only answer. See: http://www.imc.org/pdi/pdiprodslist.html You are looking for the "vCalendar Products" table. > Fernando, the "unix-based MS Exchange substitute" may really involve two > parts: the server and the clients that work with it. You may want to see > if the clients you are using support iCalendar or Open Mail. OutLook supports RFC 2447 (iMIP) for interoperability, I think. You may also want to check out "Meeting Maker" from OnTrack; it has Mac and UNIX clients, and the server generally runs on UNIX boxes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message