Simon, If you are looking at something to replace exchange, take a look at samsung contact (www.samsungcontact.com), it is a revamped/rebadged version of hp openmail.
It is commercial, and it does run on debian (well, using alien as documented at samsungs site) as well as some other flavours of linux, and it is a pretty viable comparison to exchange. As for client access, contact contains a mapi connector (similar to the exchange connector) for outlook, a linux client as well as a webmail type service similar to OWA. Although I have not looked at the ldap side of contact (im still evaluating it in our environment), it *should* be pretty standard to incorporate into slapd or something similar. Good Luck! Cheers, Shane. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Bland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 12 January 2003 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consolidating user databases LDAP was my first thought, but I've never really played with it, I've seen a few comments on Exchange using LDAP for an address book, but not as a source for it's own configuration. I'll take a look into LDAP and see what I can find. Also, I'd really like to replace Exchange, but as I understand that's somewhat of a 'Holy Grail' for us all. Does anything out there come close to a replacement? The main things this place uses it for is the shared calander and shared folders - from outlook, and they aren't likely to take well to moving away from what they are familiar with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
