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Hi,
I have been out voted into having our company switch to using Outlook at
the desktop and a Microsoft Exchange server. (Oh the nightmares) We had
a conversation about this the other day after this was decided and the
person who made the final decision thought that we NEEDED exchange to
run Outlook. After explaining to him that you don't need Exchange to
run MS Office w/ Outlook, he mentioned that he wants to switch from the
web based phpgroupware to using the shared contacts within outlook.
This is where my problems come in at. I need something that runs on
Linux that will emulate exchange. I have come across exchange4linux
along with some pure client side contact sharing solutions. After going
through the installation proceedure for exchange4linux, I found out that
after I loaded the client MAPI plugin for Outlook, that it required a
key on the server to allow clients to connect (thus costing money per
seat). I then looked into using public and shared folders in IMAP - we
run UW-IMAP. I created the necessary environment for a public folder
and got it to work nicely with #public showing in the namespace list. I
can't get Outlook or Squirrelmail to subscribe to it, and outlook
probably wouldn't allow the creation of contacts in this folder. So
that solution isn't going to work either. Any other ideas?
Thanks.
Jason Pfingstmann
Serendipity Technologies, Inc.
(480) 731-9510
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Thanks.
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