[ale] linux email solution that supports exchange calendar access

[Geoffrey]

Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Don't have an answer for that but have they tried to see if there isn't
> already a Webmail server setup on the Exchange side?  If so they could
> access email via browser.  They don't have to say they want to do this
> because of Linux - just something like they'd like to be able to access
> email when out of office.  Typically an Exchange webmail would use the
> same Windoze user/domain/password as they use in the office.

Yeah, but the browser email client sucks.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:16 AM
> To: ALE
> Subject: [ale] linux email solution that supports exchange calendar
> access
> 
> 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.
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey

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