On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:09:44PM -0600, John Scherer wrote: > Are their any email servers for Linux that emulate Microsoft exchange > server? What I'm after is a server that will allow groups to use > outlook functions such as the calendar, tasks, etc... This one gets asked a lot. The usual answer is some sort of web-based groupware like TWIG or phpGroupWare. You can get pretty close to setting up something that provides all of the services, but not under the roof that is Microsoft Outlook. For directory searching, you can install an LDAP server. Additionally, you could throw in user authentication via the LDAP server for an added bonus. Tie in Kerberos for authentification, and you're getting quite close to Microsoft's network authentificaion scheme. POP, IMAP, and SMTP services are provided by different daemons: uw-pop, uw-imap, and postfix/sendmail/qmail. News spools are best supplied by an NNTP server such as cnews, etc... All in all, the only really unique thing that Exchange server provides is a shared vCal repository. vCal and vCard are simple datafile formats well suited for email exchange. Outlooks just sucks these into it's calendar. There are plenty of client programs that speak vCal and vCard, but not many that speak the Exchange server calendaring protocol. Still, it's not THAT important for setting up meetings. You can certianly install one of the web-based apps for group calendaring (see above). Good Luck. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020621/d4d9e162/attachment.pgp