From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 18:46:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6618E16A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:46:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D900E43D31 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:46:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@myunix.net) Received: from [212.227.126.206] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DD5R2-0000oS-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:46:00 +0100 Received: from [84.151.205.159] (helo=[192.168.123.5]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1DD5R1-0006st-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:46:00 +0100 Message-ID: <423DC4E2.4080601@myunix.net> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:45:54 +0100 From: Christian Tischler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <423DB62A.8030807@myunix.net> <101669762.20050320193027@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <101669762.20050320193027@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:f535121c9cfa857f5d09ee37b87180a6 Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:46:01 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Christian Tischler writes: > > > >>The server side should be managed by BSD, but the client side is most >>surely an heterogeneous group. >> >> > >The server side of what? It all depends on the complete architecture of >your IT infrastructure. For some situations, sendmail and qpopper are >all you'll ever need. For other situations, you'll end up buying racks >of servers running Exchange. > >However, from what you've said thus far, it doesn't sound like Exchange >would be the right choice. > > > >>So a solution to somehow emulate/simulate an exchange server on an box >>(or cluster of sql horde what ever servers), and import this e.g. >>calendar data into a BSD solution. As I understand the so far mentioned >>products, these are quite capable of doing so. Then there would be an >>easy solution to different likes in clients. >> >> > >Do they really need a calendar function? > >Remember, once you start building this sort of stuff, it rapidly gets >more and more complicated. You might end up at some point realizing >that it would have all been easier with Exchange. > >If you _must_ have functionality equivalent to Exchange, then run >Exchange. But if you don't need that functionality, run something >simpler. > >For what it's worth, even fancy Outlook clients can access standard >SMTP/POP servers. You can build a backend using only simple software, >and then consider something more complex only if and when users >absolutely demand it. If you are forced into implementing a very >complex solution, consider going to Exchange rather than trying to >cobble something together, or you might spend the next ten years trying >to get it all to work. > > > Just to point out what I need, and then you probably will understand why I started this in the first place. I need to synchronize peoples (in the beginning only a few) calenders. As they all use Outlook I wanted to keep things easy on them. As I really fancy FreeBSD, I started to look for a way to combine both "worlds"... Christian