Exchange servers,
Running Exchange servers in big corporations is from the user
perspective quite nice.
If you want to send a mail to me from the outlook client, you just type
`Magnus Sundberg´ in the adresse field. Outlook then automagically looks
up my name from the server, and if there is no match or multiple match
you get my name with a red underline, a la spellchecker in MS Word.
If you just specify `Magnus´ you will get a match of all persons in the
adress book whose name start with Magnus.
I have only seen this from the end user perspective, you can probably do
something with LDAP.
There was an interesting article about replacing exchange servers in one
of the newer issues of Linux Journal. This article states that Microsoft
has changed the exchange protocol with Outlook XP to some kind of binary
message passing protocol.
regards
Magnus
Jesse Norell wrote:
Hello,
Therefore I want to make my own Webmail, using JSP. But how do I send a
mail? Do I just write a record in the database or what do I do?
What Jeff said holds, ie. use the same means to send (smtp in your
application or call local sendmail program or something). The only
addition for webmail apps is if you want to, eg., automatically save
a copy in a Sent folder, you would probably need to do direct
database insertion for that. In weDBmail we originally handled this
by adding a header tag to the message that needs to go to Sent and
just looked for that when you load your Inbox and move it to Sent
then - it's a lot cleaner just to have your app save the data
directly.
Is there a adressbook implemented in DBmail or should I just make the table
my self?
There is nothing in dbmail for this currently. There has been
mention of plans to make dbmail fully compatible with an exchange
server, though - anyone know if exchange servers have address books?
If so, and that plan is supported by IC&S, it'd probably be quite
possible to get something put into dbmail itsself because it both
would be necessary and I would guess is fairly trivial (for the
moment, it just amounts to writing a table and distributing it w/
dbmail ... the server support can come later).
Jesse
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Jesse Norell
jesse (at) kci.net
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