Just an idea, may be a stupid one.

[Wil McGilvery]

What features of exchange server are you trying to  copy?

what information does your pulbic folders hold? Contacts? Calendars? Tasks? Everything under the sun?

Are you still using outlook as a client?

There are lots of groupware(opensource) solutions that you can employ, but any program that is supposed to replace exchange usually has a cost associated with it.

Go take look at http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home


-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Semenyuk [mailto:serge_ss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:28 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: Just an idea, may be a stupid one.


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. 

I am willing to discuss my point further if I see some interest, and I
would like to turn this subject to a pointless discussion.

Thanks a bunch in advance.

Sergey

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