[ale] linux email solution that supports exchange calendar access

[Chris Kleeschulte]

Geoffrey:


Take a gander at CommuniGate.


http://www.communigate.com/


it has been working for our linux server only shop with users that  
demand window XP and want the whole exchange feel.






Chris Kleeschulte

On Apr 3, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Geoffrey wrote:

> I've got a client who is primarily a Linux shop.  They were recently
> purchased by a company where the IT folks continue to refer to
> themselves as 'a windows shop.'  The bottom line is, they want all the
> folks at the client location to run citrix/outlook to access their
> email.  What we want to do is find a Linux mail/calendaring solution
> that we can have in place that will be able to share calendars between
> the Exchange server and itself.
>
> Anyone know of such a solution.  We were planning on using Scalix, but
> have since found out that in order for the free/busy calendar  
> sharing to
> work, you have to set up an ftp server and point the Outlook clients  
> on
> the Exchange server end to the ftp server to view the free/busy info.
>
> The bottom line is, we need this to work without requiring any work on
> the Outlook client at the Exchange server end.  It's a political  
> thing,
> so the smaller the amount of work required on the Exchange end, the  
> better.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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