Inter-office email

[Wil McGilvery]

If you want to share common folders and files than Samba can do that for you. You don't need Exchange to do that.

You may also want to look at some Document management solutions if you want to centralize directories and files under a project heading.

It is quite possible to provide an IMAP server setup with LDAP for a central address book for the rest of your needs. Using an IMAP server will avoid the need for any proprietary connector and will also mean any email client you choose can connect. There are many web mail clients to choose from.

I am also currently using PHPcollab. It is very simplistic, but it serves my purpose for now.

Is there any other Exchange feature that needs addressing or have I missed something?

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Allen [mailto:pallen3-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:23 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Inter-office email

Wil McGilvery wrote:
> Are you looking for: 
> 
> Open source or just an alternative solution?

My personal choice would be an open source solution.  But this may not 
be the best choice in this case.

> Both Client and Server solutions?

I believe in this case we would require both server and client solutions.

> Linux only or Win/Linux compatible?

The clients will all be Windows.  But the server needn't necessarily be 
so.  There are several "spare" computers available to me that could 
easily be integrated into our network.

> Web Solution?

If you mean a PHP based web solution that would be locally hosted, this 
is what I'm currently leaning toward.  One feature we would like is to 
be able to share common folders and files for better project tracking. 
I'm not sure if this would be possible with an externally hosted 
solution.

Thanks for all the feedback so far.


Patrick Allen

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