Hello !
> 1. What is 'standart' file sharing? nfs, smb/samba or any other?
"Standart" interesting terminology, depends, NFS is useful to what we
call mount a file system partition onto another machine, so you could
simple export the entire /home where all the user home directories may
exist from your file server to your webserver or your ftp server if you
for instance decided that they should be different, NFS is used with
most Unix systems/Linux systems, equivalent of a share in the Winblows
world. SMB is a "MS" protocol/standard which is going to be replaced by
CIFS. Samba/SMB is used to share out a share to a Win clients. So use
NFS between Linux/Unix boxes and SMB/CIFS/Samba for sharing things out
to Win clients.
Remember that Linux/Unix has a wide variety of file systems unlike the
MS world where we have NTFS and FAT, in the Linux/Unix world we have a
journalled file system such as ext3, UFS on solaris which is journalled
as well (you have to turn it on) as well XFS from SGI etc and the
standard non-journalled ones such as ext2 etc etc. So you should choose
a FS with care, usually ext3 is standard on RH and wonderful for most
tasks.
>
> 2. Currently we have MS Exchange installed, user was using mapi which give
> good full list of recipient. i think we can achieve it using ldap, even
> user have to search first. exchange were made it simple and make user very
> lazy to type :(
Exchange is nasty and bulky really in my opinion, unable to handle
large loads. If you are speaking about searching for users in an
addressbook its easy to do it with LDAP you can do it from Netscape
Communicator or Outlook Express. The addressbooks support LDAP. You just
have to play around with to give a full listing. Check out the
Netscape/Mozilla or OE docs.
> what is better replacement or 'standart' way to access mailbox? imap pop3
> or any other?
>
I would suggest that you think of using the Maildir format. Its NFS
safe so the Maildirs can on another machine and can be exported to the
mail server via NFS. Many people say Sendmail is good or qmail or even
postfix. My personal choice and one that is ultra rock stable in my
opinion is Exim (http://www.exim.org) for smtp it can do alot of things,
very flexible. I would use the Courier IMAP/POP suite
(http://www.courier-mta.org) I am not a fan of the smtp server from that
suite. Courier Imap supports ONLY maildir which is cool and can be
easily hooked into LDAP, likewise for Exim. The mailing list for Exim is
extremely useful and help as is the Courier mailing lists. They both
have excellent docs, as for webmail check out Squirrelmail people seem
to have a fetish for it, in addition Imp and TWIG aren't too shabby
either, Imp is rather nice graphically.
Exchange can then be replaced with a clean open standards, standard
compliant mail system. There are programs such mutt which can access
maildirs directly but this is a linux console program, likewise is Pine
which is popular and can use imap to access the mail, Evolution on
Unix/Linux is a GUI program that looks like Outlook and does all
accessing of Maildirs directly or if we have an imap connection direct
access to the maildir. So check out http://www.qmail.org for a list of
converters. Maildir is useful as every message is an individual file. If
you were to use the standard unix mbox format its one huge file with
every message appended to it. Nasty if it were to get corrupted. Maildir
has a file per message and a directory per folder in the heirarchy
displayed in your mail program.
The U of Lethbridge is a full Exim + Courier outfit and the postmaster
says that they haven't had to touch the mail server side of things since
July when it went live, they have had minimal trouble and every problem
was a client side problem. That ofcourse wasn't true about their
Netscape Mail server. They now use Maildirs.
HTH and Cheers,
Aly.
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