From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 20 3:37:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uranus.interscope.ro (ns.interscope.ro [193.226.188.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F38037BE25 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 03:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from KoronkaS@interscope.ro) Received: by URANUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:34:21 +0300 Message-ID: From: Stefan KORONKA To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: "'Vadim Yu. Vaganov'" Subject: RE: Moving to FreeBSD (Advise needed) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:34:20 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Vadim Yu. Vaganov [mailto:bond@sttec.yar.ru] > > We are planning to move to FreeBSD from MS Windows 2K, but have some > problems. > At this time we are using MS Exchange Server 5.5 as mail server and MS > Outlook 97/98/2K > as mail clients at workstations. This combination supports > IMAP protocol > with users task requesting, > common folders support (made by Visual Basic). > Is were any appropriate alternative of this Windows solution > on FreeBSD > systems? > If no, then what painless solution can you offer? > At this moment this incompatibility is the last obstacle on our way to > FreeBSD. > There are IMAP clients available - eg, Netscape Communicator. I tested this combination (bsd+netscape imap/ ms exchage). All folders (including public folders) are visible, as standard messages folders. So, the mails are available 100%, but from folders containing shit like "contacts", "journal" etc you won't get big deal. Btw, if you are planning to move to FreeBSD, why don't you move you mail server too ? Hmm .. as far as I remember, there is an webmail service built into exchange. Did you think about this possibility ? Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message