From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 20 11: 9:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1698837B536 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA18B1; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:11:09 -0700 Message-ID: <394FB2D9.67100BB0@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:07:21 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Vadim Yu. Vaganov" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to FreeBSD (Advise needed) References: <20000620100010.A81445@sttec.yar.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Vadim Yu. Vaganov" wrote: . > 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? I am by no means a mail server expert, but I do know that there are a few available that handle IMAP. As for clients, Netscape handles it, as well as other Open Source mail clients. Fetchmail *does* handle IMAP, so you can use just about anything for the client end. Being Open Source software, FreeBSD is ideal for deployment testing. Install it on one machine (printer or file server) to get familiar with it. Then try out different mail servers and clients, as well as other software you may be interested in. If you make a mistake, your users will complain much less if it is the printer server that crashes instead of the firewall or mail server. David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message