Just an idea, may be a stupid one.

[Gregory Pleau]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Sergey Semenyuk wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Earlier today I have spent bunch of time looking for something to
> transfer most of services from NT server to Linux, and to be honest I
> think I am able to do it, except for one: Exchange server. I found that
> there is couple of products on the market, but none of them are easily
> available (read open source). So, I thought, that maybe there is a good
> reason to create one. Well, I expect several reactions, such as:
> 1) This is the most stupid thing I've heard in my life....
> 2) Do you want to invent a bike?
> 3) What don't you come up with something substantial and we will talk
> about it?
> 4) So what?
> 
> In fact, my point is to see if there is any support for thins kind of
> idea, and if there will be anybody that would be willing to contribute
> (their skills) into it. Personally, I don't have much of Linux/Unix
> programming experience, although I have some, and few people who know me
> in the list might remember that I've started number of those "who dares
> to deal with this" projects, and, if not certain circumstances that made
> me switch my mind to some other things, they would be finished, and I
> hope appreciated. Alas, most of them died on alpha/beta stage. 

Here's my $0.02
Look at Communigate Pro. It's not open source - I know. 
However the thing that -is- interesting is that they emulate
Exchange services - including shared contacts, tasks, etc.

They have support for Public/Private folders and user permissions.
Also Stalker (the company that makes it)  recommends it be run on 
a Linux server for best performance.

I know it uses sendmail for a chunk of it's processing.

The reason to look at it if making your own Exchange service for 
the open source world is their use of IMAP tricks to pull the 
whole thing off, and the little plugin for Outlook they wrote.

That's a starting point. 

Now for a really special treat - I'd really like to see a similar
plugin for Evolution. 

- Greg




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