On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Padraic Renaghan wrote:
> I have never heard of a MAPI client for Linux and my guess is that you
> will not find one. I think they what you want to do here is use the SMTP
> features of MS Exchange (I believe it can act like a standard SMTP
> server?). Once you have have it talking SMTP, any mail client, including
> Outlook can interface with it. Of course, if you run Exchange in purely
> SMTP mode you don't get to use the "features" of Exchange, and you might
> as well switch to sendmail/exim/... if you are doing pure SMTP. MS
> Outlook can speak SMTP no problem.
You are mistaking. SMTP is a mail-relaying protocol where as MS Exchange
in the context represented within is an e-mail storing protocol. If you
want to support reading MS Exchange e-mails with Linux, you will need to
have support for LDAP or whatever MS Exchange is using.
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Samuli Kaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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