From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 1:51: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C7F37B418 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 01:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 163aDT-0004TI-00; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:50:51 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 163aCs-000MVG-00; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:50:14 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:50:14 +0000 From: setantae To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: Fernando Gleiser , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <20011113095014.GA86200@rhadamanth> References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <86bsi77fon.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86bsi77fon.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:06:00PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Fernando Gleiser writes: > > > A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$ Exchange > > to BSD runing Sendmail or Postfix and IMAP. > > Just a word of warning here. If all they are using Exchange for is > mail, then no problems. Something like exim or postfix with an LDAP > server for the address book should sort everything out. > > If however, they are using it for shared calendaring or the calendar > and mail client integration, be careful. I don't know of any > applications on Unix platforms that provide this kind of 'groupware'. > > If anyone has any information to contradict this, I'd be interested to > hear it. I'd love to be able to punt a decent alternative to Exchange. Despite not being able to find it, I am _sure_ that I say a posting on the exim-users list sometime in the past that suggested that all of that functionality was implemented client-side in Outlook, and that an Exchange server was actually surplus to requirements. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message