From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 6 4:38: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tethys.valhalla.net (tethys.valhalla.net [195.26.32.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6075A37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 04:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@tethys.valhalla.net) Received: by tethys.valhalla.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C65EC3379E; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:37:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:37:56 +0100 From: Mark Drayton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Exchange Message-ID: <20010706123756.A35166@tethys.valhalla.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F794C@NETIVITY-FS> <20010706122628.A8858@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010706122628.A8858@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:26:29PM +0300 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 Giorgos Keramidas (keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) wrote: > Another feature that does not work with some MTA other than Exchange > is the shared `group folders' that Outlook can read from an Exchange > server. This is very similar to USENET newsgroups in functionality, > and I usually prefer to install a local News server instead of > depending on Exchange to do that work for me. You can implement shared folder/bulletin boards/whatever you call them with the cyrus imapd (ports/mail/cyrus-imapd). These folders have to be setup by the administrator (unless the users want to get personal with 'man cryadm') although it would be quite trivial to make a web based configuration utility for the users to do it themselves. The access control is very granular -- you could allow users B and C to read one of user A's mailboxes but only B to post to that box. Cyrus has a fairly steep learning curve (I'm learning now) but all reports say it's worth the initial headache. It's very scalable and flexible enough for almost every situation. Hope this helps, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message