darryl,
well i have finished my little project...
imap is nice and works nicely with communicator. there are some catches
however.
you can see all the public folders and so forth, no problems. contacts,
calendar, journal ... no problems, but it's a rather cumbersome interface you
have to deal with and you don't get the benefits of exchange for that. imap4 is
basically a nicely spruced up pop3 way of accessing folders. there are a lot
advantages but not that way to go in your case.
the ocw (outlook web client) is kewl. it's basically is the outlook interface
using IIS' active server pages, you need to have at least IIS3 or 4 installed.
it has the calendaring functions, journal. it's actually quite nice and simple
to use. of coarse not as complex as outlook but for most people this is more
then enough to get them to a productive way of working. =)
when you upgrade to 5.5 there is an option for the web installation. you'll
need to upgrade to some post sp3 fixes though for the windoze server.
ooooooooops. this is sounding like the m$ helpline and not a linux thread. ;]
communicator works great with OCW and even lynx works.. =)
cheer.
kristofg
Daryl Williams wrote:
> hi kristof,
>
> thanks for your feedback regarding this issue. i am being urged
> to upgrade our exchange server from 5.0 to 5.5. once we do that
> i will look into using imap. it think it will actually be of more use
> to me since i actually use netscape. my user community uses
> outlook, which is why i am trying to find alternatives to exchange
> on the back end. perhaps if i can get them to use outlook's imap
> features instead of it's native interfaces, i can wean them off of
> exchange and onto a linux backend.
>
> if you get the chance, could you provide me with a little more
> info about owc? i have not heard about it before. good luck
> with your owc project.
>
> thanks again,
>
> //daryl
>
> Kristof Kowalski wrote:
>
> > darryl,
> >
> > since exchange 5.5 now supports imap you can use netscape communicator to
> > see all your public/private folders.
> >
> > mapi is just the programming interaface for windoze clients and has
> > nothing to do with message transfer or the like..
> >
> > use the imap features exchange or the OWC (outlook web client), which uses
> > IIS's asps. i'm in the process of setting this up this weekend. =)
> >
> > cheers.
> >
> > kristof
> >
> > Daryl Williams wrote:
> >
> > > folks,
> > >
> > > does anyone know if there exists such a thing as a mapi client
> > > for linux? our user community uses outlook as their email
> > > front end. because of this we have been stuck supporting
> > > an exchange server, which we would dearly love to put
> > > in the trash. my understanding is that with a mapi client
> > > running interferance for an smtp server our outlook clients
> > > would sbe able to talk to the smtp server. any information,
> > > rtfms, etc, are welcomed.
> > >
> > > tia,
> > >
> > > //daryl
> > >
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