Linux Exchange server replacement.

[Drew Van Zandt]

PostPath says it's a wire-level reverse-engineer, so no PST files.

--DTVZ

On 6/15/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/15/07, Mark Mcsweeney <mark.mcsweeney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > PostPath (http://www.postpath.com) advertises on their homepage:
>
> On 6/15/07, Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
> > Another option is Open Xchange. It's actually a bit of a superset of
> > Exchange in that it offers some features not available in Exchange.
>
>   Anyone know if the above either supply their own Extended MAPI
> provider software, or implement the Exchange MAPI wire protocol?
>
>   If not, you're still stuck using PST files with Outlook.  PST = BAD.
>  Most of the "Exchange replacements" I've encountered suffer from this
> problem.  They implement SMTP and IMAP, which would be enough for most
> client software.  But Outlook started life as the Exchange Client
> software, and it still reflects that, in that it doesn't really work
> well unless it's talking to an Exchange server, or something else that
> acts like one (i.e., implements Extended MAPI).
>
> -- Ben
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