> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, May 13, 1999 > at 11:58:58AM -0700 > > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:58:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a Debian mail package that can talk to an MsExchange server? > > If so, I could stop using Win95 MsOutlook97, and leave Debian up full time > > at work. > It depends om what you are using Exchanger Server to do. Exchange Server has > an enormous depth of functionality allowing it to compete head on head aginst > Lotus Notes in the groupware market. However, most people who buy it use it > as an email server with the priv.edb just acting as a slow and clumsy backup > for your email and calendar. > > If you are using the groupware, calendar sharing, net folders, public folders > and so on, then you probably are stuck with Outlook tho it would make a lot > of sense to move to Outlook 2000 or even Outlook 98 because Outlook 97 was > truly appalling even by the Exchange standards while its later iterations are > at least easier to use. > > Talk to your sysadmin at work about Outlook Web Access which allows you to be > a full Outlook client through a browser interface. It ain't easy for you but > it is easy for the sysadmin to set up. And once up, you can use a Linux box > as a client. > > Most Exchange shops actually just use the email and replication functionality > and you can get the benefit of the email server with any Linux mail client > with pop functionality. Exchange runs pop as a "backup" so even though you > aren't getting the mail automatically, you can set your client to pick it up > every 15 seconds which is fast enough for most people. Talk to your sysadmin > about network traffic before setting the intervals very close, especially if > you get a lot of large files. > > As for the priv.edb acting as a store, I have very vivid memories of one > person who was accidentally deleted as a user. When it was realised we > deleted the wrong user, we recreated the account with access to their home > folder, etc. BUT Exchange has mashed the 53 Megabyte *.ost and even a > restore from tape could not convince it that the chap could pick up the mail. > Of course, without the Excgange Server authentication, the client PC also > mashed the *.ost when he tried logging on. I came close to chucking Exchange > and NT out on the spot but had to wait a couple of months before migration to > Linux was practical. > > So you should be able to show that a Linux based client is more secure than a > native Exchange client. But a Linux based server would be more secure still:) > PatricK > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
