Chris Ulrich wrote:
> If it is possible to reset a user's password in
> exchange, and if exchange truly uses the imap protocol,
> it should be possible to use fetchmail to suck every user's
> email off of the exchange server and into a proper mail
> server. The trick is writing the script and resetting
> every user's password on the exchange server so you can run
> the "suck the mail out of the exchange server" script.
> An alternative (assuming that you can use fetchmail)
> is to write a web wrapper to fetchmail so that the user
> can suck the mail onto the new server themselves.
>
> It's too bad the cyrus server doesn't support maildir.
> I'm not keen on using the u-washington imap server, but
> if I want imap + maildir it is the only option.
>
> I've been told by "on high" that I'm going to have to
> support an exchange server for the campus, for both mail
> and schedualing. I responded that everything I've heard
> about exchange leads me to believe that it will be a disaster,
> to which he responded that large companies (ford and several
> others I don't remember) use exchange so it must be okay.
> How badly does exchange work? Does it work at all?
> chris
>
I've never had to maintain Exchange, I've only seen the tears. Exchange has caused
a lot people
I know unquantifiable amounts of grief. My advice to you is tip the Exchange
server off the
of server rack: blame it on the hardrive spinning so hard, trying to process two
messages at
a time, it caused the machine to fall of the rack.
jason.
