Outlook set-up with linux mail-server on the LAN

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:13:06PM +0300, Christos Ricudis wrote:
> Hello Tassos!
> 
>   On 04 May 01, Tassos Bassoukos wrote to All with subject "Re: Outlook set-up
> with linux mail-server on the LAN":
> 
>  >> Yparxei tropos na balw ena PC panw sto netmod, to opoio na
>  >> trexei linux kai na pairnei ta email apeu8eias apo ton ISP, na 
>  >> ta moirazei eswterika kai tautoxrona na mh xa8ei 
>  >> leitourgikothta apo to Outlook? Milaw gia to calendar, meeting 
>  >> requests, eswteriko contact list, eswterika email, task 
>  >> assignment, etc. Milame gia 10 mexri 25 PC sto topiko diktyo.
> 
>  TB> Oxi, den yparxei kati tetoio pou na douleyei me to Outlook. To
>  TB> pio kontino pou mporw na sou dei3w einai to 
>  TB> http://www.phpgroupware.org, kai mallon den sou kanei :-)
> 
> Panta aporousa ti sto diaolo rolo paizei o server sta meeting requests, task
> assignments ktl ktl. 
> 
> Kai, estw kai an paizei rolo o server, POSO pia dyskolo einai na reverse
> engineer such malakioules? 

Mallon giati psuliasthke th douleia (oti kapoioi tha sthsoun diktuakia me
servers pou *den* tha einai Exchange) toulaxiston sta ejhs:

  * Calendar
  * Tasks
  * Meetings
  * Shared folders
  * Shared contact lists

to Outlook stelnei ena aplo MIME-encoded message, pou to mono MIME-part to
opoio periexei einai typoy `application/ms-tnef'.  Einai thema tou client
pou stelnei kai tou receiving client h apokwdikopoihsh tou ms-tnef format,
kai kathos oute to Sendmail oute to Qmail skotisthkan gia to ti pernas apo
pano tous (arkei na einai sosto to MIME-encoding pou exei ginei), paizei
mia xara h olh fash :)

Auto pou apaitei th xrhsh Exchange nte kai kala giati den ginetai allios
einai h xrhsh twn 'Shared directories', 'Announcement folders' h kapos etsi
an 8umamai... Mia ahdia ths Microsoft pou an to koitakseis pano apo pente
sunexomena lepta, mia frash sou karfonetai sto mualo kai den leei na bgei:
`USENET newsgroups'.

--giorgos