[ale] RE: Open Exchange Query

[ale1 at cybertechcafe.net (Nathan J. Underwood)]

I have recently spent a lot of time with OpenExchange (free version and 
SuSE Linux openexchange server 4.1) trying to do the 'drop in' 
replacement for MS Exchange.  The short story is, despite what the 
marketing and pre-sales tech support tell you, it's not a drop in 
replacement (verbatim from Novell tech support).  The web component of 
the product is very nice, but for MS Outlook Clients, it basically 
functions as an IMAP server.  The ISLOX connector is supposed to provide 
the MAPI stuff, but we were not successful in getting it going, and 
Novell doesn't support it. 

Dante Martinez wrote:

>Hi folks
> 
>I'm wondering if anyone here has used Open Exchange and can give me any feedback.  I've been trying to get it setup for some time and not having much luck.  I'm going to start over tonight and try with Debian and will post with any errors I get.
> 
>I'd love to get this working as many of my customers would go with it since they could continue to use M$ Outlook with it.
> 
>I'm also confused as the web site indicates there is a new version 5 - but I can't actually find the download or eval or even how to buy it.  The acquisition by Novell seems to be confusing matters.
> 
>Thanks in Advance
> 
>Dante Martinez
>Network Engineer
>Entre BTG
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