Re: OT: Supporting Office 2000 with YDL/Samba...


Subject: Re: OT: Supporting Office 2000 with YDL/Samba...
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 02:26:52 MST


Jeff,

on 15/11/00 5:57 pm, Jeff Ross at jeffross@vcn.com wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm going to be installing YDL on a server for a company here in town.
> Although I'll be using a Mac/YDL for the server, the workstations are all
> wintel boxes. I've used Samba before, so that won't be a problem.
>
Be careful! I have a laptop that was "upgraded" to Windows 2000
Professional - this operating system is not yet fully supported by Samba.
Specifically, domain logins do not work. However, the network protocol
support and file sharing are much better than with Windows 98!

> My question concerns Office 2000 and specifically for configuring
> inter-office e-mail. I don't want to use Exchange, and in the past I've
> been able to use Microsoft Mail (although it has some, umm, interesting
> quirks, like never actually deleting deleted messages). I wonder if anyone
> can answer the following: Is there an Open Source equivalent to MS
> Exchange?

Not AFAIK.

> Or, can I use a regular e-mail server like qmail to handle inter
> office mail? Are there any good docs out there about using Office under
> Linux, or even a good system admin level book for the Office suite.
> Microsoft's own books seem to be mostly geared toward the end user and not
> toward the administrator.
>

I would have thought so. It's a question of whether Outlook will work
happily with a standard POP/SMTP email systems. I've had Outlook Express
working perfectly with senmail and POP3 or IMAP.

  Iain



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