On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:18:40AM +0000, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Hopefully this isn't too off-topic....
Depends on how people answer. :) > After running a successful and reliable Linux/Sendmail installation for 3 > years, the boss has decided we absolutely must have Microsoft Exchange. > > While I would like to be able to provide group scheduling and todo lists, I > can't see any way of doing this with open source systems. The next few paragraphs are something I wrote about a year ago when somebody else asked me the same question. I'm feeling too lazy this morning to rehash it or look for the current state of the art. :) --snip-- I promised last night that I'd go find the mention of various calendaring tools I've seen in the past. So here it is... The one I was thinking about last night is by a company called Bynari (http://www.bynari.net/). Having now read the articles about it, it's described as "an FPOS and the developers clearly aren't too hot at user-interface design, documentation, or even simple product testing". Not high praise. :) [ snip ] Aha, found it. Steltor CorporateTime: http://www.steltor.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=3Dproduct&GroupID=3D00= 3-001-003 It would appear not to be free though. But with some add-on or other it will interact with Outlook clients. It's available for Windows and just about anything with Motif. --snip-- Of course, on the client side, there's now Evolution. You have to pay for the Exchange plugin, but it's a start... iCal is starting to take off, so you may be able to find somebody that's putting together server side support for that. Client-side support has at least been started in Mozilla. > MS Outlook will not > cope with the volume of Email I receive. Nor will it (apparrently) > automatically sort incoming mail without MS Exchange. Just because you are forced to use Exchange at the server end, doesn't mean you're forced to use it at the client side. It will talk IMAP (and LDAP for the address books). At least it would last time I looked. > Can one implement hot-desking using Outlook? Yes. > What other nasty's await us? Make sure you invest in the most recent version and search hard for all the patches. I gather from our Exchange Monkey down south that it can be difficult to setup Exchange so it's not an open relay. I would still have a sendmail (well, Postfix) mail server facing the outside world which forwards to the internal Exchange server. And keep the Exchange server completely away from the outside world. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wossname.org.uk/~mathie/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
