Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:41:18 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Christian Tischler" <mail@myunix.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCENIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <423DC4E2.4080601@myunix.net>
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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
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