Linux Email to replace Exchange

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Linux email systems like
Scalix, etc. that hope to replace Microsoft Exchange. I'd be interested in
whether the product can support Outlook clients, hear comparisons of feature
sets and info about clustering or use with sans. Thanks.

On 2006-03-07, ZLorca <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Linux email systems like
> Scalix, etc. that hope to replace Microsoft Exchange.

It depends what you want to do. If your goal is to send and receive
e-mails, all the mail servers are good for that. If you want to do something
else, then you'll have to look into what you want to do.

Davide

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Some Windows were made to be broken.

I'd imagine that as long as outlook can still support IMAP, then any
Linux email system could happily cope with outlook.

More importantly, Why are your users using Outlook, when better, free,
open source clients exist. ie. Thunderbird

"Tom.Bioinf" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I'd imagine that as long as outlook can still support IMAP, then any
> Linux email system could happily cope with outlook.

I believe the question was "to replace Exchange" not "to replace Outlook".

> More importantly, Why are your users using Outlook, when better, free,
> open source clients exist. ie. Thunderbird

I would say because Thunderbird can't (easily, if at all) deal with the
calendar offered by the Exchange backend.

-- HASM

ZLorca wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Linux email systems like
> Scalix, etc. that hope to replace Microsoft Exchange. I'd be interested in
> whether the product can support Outlook clients, hear comparisons of feature
> sets and info about clustering or use with sans. Thanks.
>
>

Suse Open Exchange:
http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol...enExchange.htm

Let me be more clear.
We're a corporate environment with MS Exchange users trained in Outlook.
We're using Exchange for mail and calendaring. We also like the AD
integration Exchange offers. We wouldn't go with POP or IMAP and instead
will use MAPI or https rpc. We're open to better options. The real-time
collaboration for calendaring is the key feature.

I don't have a problem with users choosing another client provided by the
mail server mfr. but I do need Outlook to work because I don't feel like
spending weeks on retraining. Even something as simple as a name change or
view change can confuse standard end users.


"HASM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:m3wtf6p8bl.fsf@127.0.0.1...
> "Tom.Bioinf" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> I'd imagine that as long as outlook can still support IMAP, then any
>> Linux email system could happily cope with outlook.
>
> I believe the question was "to replace Exchange" not "to replace Outlook".
>
>> More importantly, Why are your users using Outlook, when better, free,
>> open source clients exist. ie. Thunderbird
>
> I would say because Thunderbird can't (easily, if at all) deal with the
> calendar offered by the Exchange backend.
>
> -- HASM
>
>

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:15:15 -0800, ZLorca wrote:

> Let me be more clear.
> We're a corporate environment with MS Exchange users trained in Outlook.
> We're using Exchange for mail and calendaring. We also like the AD
> integration Exchange offers. We wouldn't go with POP or IMAP and instead
> will use MAPI or https rpc. We're open to better options. The real-time
> collaboration for calendaring is the key feature.
>
> I don't have a problem with users choosing another client provided by the
> mail server mfr. but I do need Outlook to work because I don't feel like
> spending weeks on retraining. Even something as simple as a name change or
> view change can confuse standard end users.
>
>
> "HASM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:m3wtf6p8bl.fsf@127.0.0.1...
>> "Tom.Bioinf" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>>
>>> I'd imagine that as long as outlook can still support IMAP, then any
>>> Linux email system could happily cope with outlook.
>>
>> I believe the question was "to replace Exchange" not "to replace
>> Outlook".
>>
>>> More importantly, Why are your users using Outlook, when better, free,
>>> open source clients exist. ie. Thunderbird
>>
>> I would say because Thunderbird can't (easily, if at all) deal with the
>> calendar offered by the Exchange backend.
>>
>> -- HASM
>>
>>
>>

What about using Lotus Notes? The Domino server runs on Linux.