Re: How to do these ??

Dear Alan Peery,

Once you wrote about "Re: How to do these ??":
AP> >b> 2) Porting of Public Folders from Exchange Server to Linux ? is there a 
AP> >b> way ?
AP> >I believe you can use IMAP folders sharing to implement it.
AP> Yes.  The implementation of shared folders is quite different from IMAP 
AP> server to IMAP server, however.  You'll need to test all the IMAP 
AP> clients you're interested in (start with Mozilla) to make sure they 
AP> "notice" the shared folders.  If they do so automatically, that may save 
AP> you significant client-side configuration.

While IMAP folders is the closest to Exchange implementation, I still
think that using mailing lists for this purpose is more appropriate.
With mailing list one has greater control over the permissions.  It is
also nice to archive things sometimes.  Statistics is another point.

mailman ( http://www.list.org )would be my proposition :)

AP> >There are several
AP> >alternatives, which are still in development.  KDE project (
AP> >http://www.kde.org ) has korganizer ( http://korganizer.kde.org ), which 
AP> >is, IMHO, the most developed and feature-full one.  It does not have any 
AP> >server back-end though.  
AP> And it is (presumably) thus single-user.  Group scheduling is probably a 
AP> bigger blocking point.

It is not single user.  People can exchange and integrate tasks over
email.  It is very similar to the way Evolution operates.

AP> >Ximian Evolution ...Calendar plug-in for Mozilla browser 
AP> There is another option high on my list for testing: Bynari's server 
AP> available at http://www.bynari.net.  It supposedly offers full 
AP> calendaring support.  I may have a chance to try it in the next couple 
AP> of weeks.

Yes, I forgot to mention that :)  According to the description at the
site and some people responces (thanks to Google), Bynari server is a
not bad solution.  Although, the main concern of mine is the migration
from one proprietry solution (Exchange) to another.  Before doing so, I
recommend to stop and think twice.

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Best regards,
  Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE
  System Administrator
  Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.