hi padaric,
thanks for your response. i too suspect i will not find a mapi client
for linux. we actually do use both the smtp and pop features of
our exchange server, however i find exchange very limiting
and would love to get rif of it. of course that would still leave me
with the problem of replacing the exchange calendar functionality,
which is the only other feature of exchange that we actually we use.
regarding outlook's ability to speak smtp, i believe this is only done
through the mapi protocol, thus my query regarding mapi software
for linux....
thanks again,
//daryl
Padraic Renaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Daryl Williams wrote:
> DW> does anyone know if there exists such a thing as a mapi client
> DW> for linux? our user community uses outlook as their email
> DW> front end. because of this we have been stuck supporting
> DW> an exchange server, which we would dearly love to put
> DW> in the trash. my understanding is that with a mapi client
> DW> running interferance for an smtp server our outlook clients
> DW> would sbe able to talk to the smtp server. any information,
> DW> rtfms, etc, are welcomed.
>
> 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.
>
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