From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 23:41:22 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 439A916A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:41:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E9843D46 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:41:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j2KNfSb23826; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:41:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Christian Tischler" , Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:41:18 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <423DC4E2.4080601@myunix.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal 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 23:41:22 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > 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"... > There is actually another way you can do this without Exchange or any other heavy product. If you have a small number of Outlook users, you can go to your server and create a MSMail post office. Windows 95 and several other Windows versions (I forget which ones) came with that ability. Then you map a drive letter to the share that the postoffice is on, and set the Outlook clients to use the msmail (not exchange) connector, and point the connector to the post office on that shared drive letter. This will let the calendars exchange data. The Outlook clients must be true Outlook, not Outlook Express, and they must be in Workgroup mode. Also, it has been a long time since I've done that trick and your going to have to experiment and dig around with the various pieces of software, I may not be accurate here in relating how it's done. Also as I recall the post office creator in Windows 95 only let you do a total of 10 mailboxes per post office. Ted