Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Just to point out what I need, and then you probably will understand why I started this in the first place. I need to synchronize peoples (in the beginning only a few) calenders. As they all use Outlook I wanted to keep things easy on them.Christian Tischler writes:
The server side should be managed by BSD, but the client side is most
surely an heterogeneous group.
The server side of what? It all depends on the complete architecture of your IT infrastructure. For some situations, sendmail and qpopper are all you'll ever need. For other situations, you'll end up buying racks of servers running Exchange.
However, from what you've said thus far, it doesn't sound like Exchange would be the right choice.
So a solution to somehow emulate/simulate an exchange server on an box
(or cluster of sql horde what ever servers), and import this e.g. calendar data into a BSD solution. As I understand the so far mentioned
products, these are quite capable of doing so. Then there would be an easy solution to different likes in clients.
Do they really need a calendar function?
Remember, once you start building this sort of stuff, it rapidly gets more and more complicated. You might end up at some point realizing that it would have all been easier with Exchange.
If you _must_ have functionality equivalent to Exchange, then run Exchange. But if you don't need that functionality, run something simpler.
For what it's worth, even fancy Outlook clients can access standard SMTP/POP servers. You can build a backend using only simple software, and then consider something more complex only if and when users absolutely demand it. If you are forced into implementing a very complex solution, consider going to Exchange rather than trying to cobble something together, or you might spend the next ten years trying to get it all to work.
As I really fancy FreeBSD, I started to look for a way to combine both "worlds"...
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