Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:46:53 -0500 From: Scott Gregory <bsdbox@citizen.infi.net> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAPI compliant Mail Server Message-ID: <387E9C2D.47929BC5@citizen.infi.net> References: <200001140254.VAA03932@mindspring.com>
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I asked the question because we have a software product from Microstrategy called Broadcaster which requires a MAPI complient mail server to send mail to users. The documentation specifies a few servers (MS Exchange and a few others I can't remember now), but I was hoping to get away from installing a MS Exchange server for this particular product. I think I will have to test Broadcaster with one of the mail servers in the ports collections. Thanks for your assistance! Scott W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Just as a side note, although MAPI does specify the server object interfaces > for service providers, what most Windows users really care about is client > side MAPI. > > By using Microsoft's client side service providers, a FreeBSD system with > a POP or IMAP server can seamlessly transport MAPI-structured email. At > one time the scheduling software didn't need server support but instead > relied on specially formatted email messages. All of the MAPI forms worked > this way too. (In the three years I've been boycotting Microsoft this might > have changed) > > MAPI is defined in terms of OLE object interfaces, on both the server and > client sides. Internally, Exchange Server is (was?) an X.400 mail engine > using OLE Structured Storage for its data repositories. From my experience > it was all pretty fragile and didn't scale nearly as well as Microsoft claimed. > > Thankfully, there isn't an OLE implementation for FreeBSD. :-) > > Cheers, > > Jerry Hicks > jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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