[Watford] Collaboration requested - Linux/Windows email; samba4

[Mark Stewart]

Hi Alan, put me down to play. I have all the client and server software
installed on VMs already, let me know how you want to proceed. -Mark

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one of the things that had been on my TODO list for a long time is to fully
> integrate a MS Outlook client with a Linux server ... including the
> calendaring.
> The idea being that the end user will not know that the server is not MS
> Exchange.
>
> There seem to be several ways of doing it, but they all seem to involve a
> proprietary something to do the MAPI dialogue - which is partly why I have
> delayed, hoping that something completely free will appear.
>
> What I am after are a few people to do this project with. The idea is that
> we
> would fully document what we do. I can create Linux boxes, people with MS
> Windows clients to connect would be needed, later MS Windows servers
> running MS
> Exchange would be needed to that we can work out the migration process.
>
>
> Also: Samba 4 is now out. I have not played with it, it would be good to
> bring
> that into the picture.
>
>
> Anyone want to play ?
>
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