Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:50:14 +0000 From: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> Cc: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <20011113095014.GA86200@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <86bsi77fon.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <86bsi77fon.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:06:00PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> writes: > > > A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$ Exchange > > to BSD runing Sendmail or Postfix and IMAP. > > Just a word of warning here. If all they are using Exchange for is > mail, then no problems. Something like exim or postfix with an LDAP > server for the address book should sort everything out. > > If however, they are using it for shared calendaring or the calendar > and mail client integration, be careful. I don't know of any > applications on Unix platforms that provide this kind of 'groupware'. > > If anyone has any information to contradict this, I'd be interested to > hear it. I'd love to be able to punt a decent alternative to Exchange. Despite not being able to find it, I am _sure_ that I say a posting on the exim-users list sometime in the past that suggested that all of that functionality was implemented client-side in Outlook, and that an Exchange server was actually surplus to requirements. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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