RE: [MLUG] Drop-in MS Exchange replacement

["Russell Horn" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Spurling, Shannon
> Sent: 10 December 2002 16:50
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> But that isn't the origin of this thread. There are systems that
> do exactly what exchange does. I think people are getting the
> wrong idea from this thread. I was not asking about things that
> could be used in place of exchange. I was asking about some
> systems that I have seen written up somewhere that behave exactly
> like exchange. If you have a black box, and you point your
> outlook client at it, you would not know the difference. That is
> what I am talking about. Not the rest of these systems that are
> completely different and with different client software. I was
> under the impression that there was no such thing, but I was
> reading some articles on such a thing. I read their claims, and
> they say that some of these products will drop right on an
> exchange server and take over all the same functions with all the
> same clients, but you can also use Unix and Mac clients too. With
> full functionality. That would be incredible. They are not open
> source, but they are a lot less expensive.
>
>

I'm not aware of anything that does that.

There are two widely available adn used commercial options:

1. Samsung Contact (formerly HP Openmail)
2. Bynari Insight Connector

Both of these will allow you to replace the Exchange Server, but both also
require you to install a COM add-in to Outlook. Neither provides a MAPI
compliant server like Exchange, they use an alternative format and provide
an Outlook plug-in so that Outlook can understand it.

Bynari can be made to work with most any IMAP server, and is going to be the
means by which Outlook clients will connect to Kolab. Kolab will of course
come with a KDE client that doesn't require a plug in.

Russell.

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