Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:54:08 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: Scott Gregory <bsdbox@citizen.infi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAPI compliant Mail Server Message-ID: <200001140254.VAA03932@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:22:53 EST." <387E887D.F12CFD84@citizen.infi.net>
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Just as a side note, although MAPI does specify the server object interfaces for service providers, what most Windows users really care about is client side MAPI. By using Microsoft's client side service providers, a FreeBSD system with a POP or IMAP server can seamlessly transport MAPI-structured email. At one time the scheduling software didn't need server support but instead relied on specially formatted email messages. All of the MAPI forms worked this way too. (In the three years I've been boycotting Microsoft this might have changed) MAPI is defined in terms of OLE object interfaces, on both the server and client sides. Internally, Exchange Server is (was?) an X.400 mail engine using OLE Structured Storage for its data repositories. From my experience it was all pretty fragile and didn't scale nearly as well as Microsoft claimed. Thankfully, there isn't an OLE implementation for FreeBSD. :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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