[plug] Does anyone know of a way of duplicating exhange public folders u nder a Linux email system like sendmail or qmail or some other product?

[Andrew Howell]

On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 04:10:45PM +0800, Buddrige, David wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Am investigating setting up a Linux box to replace a _really %$*! Nt box
> with Exchange server on it...
> 
> trouble is, they have a bunch of public address books, with all of their
> company contacts, sitting in Exchange Public folders....
> 
> While they are currently stored as Pubic folders, they used to be part
> of the Global Address list...
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to duplicate this sort of functionality
> without having to duplicate the address book on each of the clients if
> we were to replace their NT box with an equivilent linux box?
> 
> I've searched usenet and hotbot and other's to no avail thus far....

What you want to do here is setup a LDAP server with the addresses in them.

I keep meaning to try doing this, but I haven't got around to doing it yet :)

Several email clients support LDAP now.

I don't know if you would be able to export the exchange global address list
into an LDAP server though.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell
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