Mail servers / Exchange (was TNG PDC & NT BDC)

[Wierzbicki, Ralf]

FYI, exchange does not have to run on a domain controller.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Jamison [mailto:IJamison at iss-dsp.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 12:38 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: OT: Mail servers / Exchange (was TNG PDC & NT BDC)
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The thread was sort of straying from the original post. This is all
> totally unrelated to NTDOM and should probably be elsewhere (or
> nowhere).
> 
> The corporate calendar one of the few remaining big problems in the
> whole NT/Unix integration bundle. Our setup here is Samba (2.0.7 and
> TNG) for PDC/Files, HP JetDirect for printing and standard 
> sendmail with
> U.Washington's Pop3d/Imapd for mail. We also use eXceed for all those
> good X thingies.
> 
> We'd been evaluating Nutscrape (oops Netscape :-) Calendar, but had to
> switch to Outlook when some of our users required hotsync to Psion
> handhelds (NS Calendar hotsyncs with Palms OK, but not Psions).
> 
> I'd been avoiding having an NT Server box, but Exchange's 
> requirement to
> run on NT Server, coupled with our requirement to use Outlook 
> for group
> scheduling meant I had to cave. Ho hum. So far we've only tried it out
> on a couple of users - against a trial TNG domain, not in a real use
> environment, but it appeared to work OK.
> 
> Anyone done a real evaluation of HP's Openmail? This might be an
> alternative to Exchange, but I've no real idea whether it's complete
> enough.
> 
> 'Bye,
> IanJ.
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