[Samba] Samba & Outlook Express

[mrojava4 at eastgranby.k12.ct.us]

Within our school system, we use squirrelmail (a webmail interface) ontop
of IMAP to provide teachers a secure email interface from both school and
home.

Mark

> If you are using roaming profiles the OE mailbox files will follow the
> user no matter which workstation that they login on. The drawback is
> that those files can get rather large depending on email and their
> associated attachments, which will mean longer load and save times. This
> is also true if you were to setup an IMAP server, unless you setup OE to
> only sync the headers and not the full message. The single most
> important advantage with an IMAP server is that messages are managed on
> the server. So if the OE mailbox(es) becomes corrupt deleting the local
> file and re-syncing will restore the messages locally to the user.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marcus O.
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:58, Ninja wrote:
>> I will go to explain my situation: I have to set up a little net (max 15
>> clients, with Windows and Linux OS) for a school; they need that in
>> every
>> host of the net if they log in as "FOO" they can use "FOO"'s
>> preferences,
>> and maybe have some restriction for "student user". In particular for a
>> "teacher" they want to be able to read their emails and get access to
>> them
>> in every computer they log in... To make this plain I have use samba as
>> a
>> PDC with roaming profiles, and I use poledit to create different policy
>> files for every groups (I'm still working on it).
>>
>> Because the "teachers" would be little in number and because only a
>> "teacher" would have an email account (with a free provider,probably
>> different), I think that set up an Imap server is not a good solution
>> (also
>> because a teacher maybe would read the email at home)... I think I will
>> use
>> the default setup of Outlook that save a file in the user directory,
>> that is
>> then stored in the server, and setup Outlook to leave on the server the
>> emails....
>>
>> What do you think??
>>
>> Thanks to everyone is helping me!!
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: samba-bounces+ninja=leet.it at lists.samba.org
>> > [mailto:samba-bounces+ninja=leet.it at lists.samba.org] On
>> > Behalf Of Alexander Gretencord
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:21 PM
>> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba & Outlook Express
>> >
>> > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 18:46, Ninja wrote:
>> > > I'm agree with you, but not always you can use an Imap
>> > server, an usually
>> > > who gives you an e-mail account for free gives only an Pop3
>> > server...
>> >
>> > Yes indeed that is mostly true. But why do you use those anyway? As I
>> > understood you, you are trying to set up a PDC with samba (or
>> > even already
>> > have one) so I assume this is for a company. This company can
>> > surely either
>> >
>> > a) afford a service Provider which offers IMAP
>> > b) afford to run its own mailserver
>> > c) run its own IMAP Server off the samba PDC
>> >
>> > In case c) your server must of course fetch all the mail from
>> > the freemail
>> > provider. I do that for my own freemail accounts at home with
>> > fetchmail. It
>> > was born out of the need to read mail in Windows and Linux
>> > while I was still
>> > dual booting so yes this is so easy to setup, I did it as a
>> > linux newbie :)
>> >
>> > As I don't know anything about your organisation I don't know
>> > how feasible
>> > that is for you or how much work it would be to set up fetchmails
>> > configuration in a changing environment but hey this is linux
>> > and we got
>> > scripting languages :)
>> >
>> > If you are just looking for another mail Client, try out
>> > Mozilla Thunderbird,
>> > you can define the profile path. I have never tested storing
>> > it on a samba
>> > share though, as IMAP is the definite answer.
>> >
>> >
>> > Alex
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