Any advice on connecting to other mail systems using LDAP.

[Hardmandez]

Hi People. I have a question which hopefully lots of people will be able to give me lots of advice on.

Currently our mail system works the following way. We use mail for internal communication and mailbox storage. We recieve internet email through the outlook clients pop3 service. So Internet email is only deleivered to the clients mailbox when they are logged on. Which is crap because it means things like Outlook Web access are not providing full functionality. Why this method was decied I don't know, I've just inherited the setup.

Anyway the parent company would like to decomission the POP3 server as they have migrated to Notes/Domino but our division want to carry on using exchange/outlook. We discussed taking on a different style of internet email address but management have decided that we must keep our .com address. So I have briefly discussed with their Notes expert communicating with the notes mail server using LDAP.

How can we get the exchange/notes server to retrieve mails from each other using LDAP. Allowing us to get rid of the POP 3 service in outlook.

Cheers

 

[F1lby]

I can't give much on this subject as LDAP seems to be a black art and I'm trying to make sense of it all,
BUT....

If you have an Exch2K server, try using Outlook Express and do TOOLS, ACCOUNTS and click on the directory service tab.
Put in the IP address / name of your Exch2K server and username/password and you'll be able to search for accounts by value - I have set up my remote users to do precisely just this with Outlook Express. Outlook Express Directory Service Tab is all about connecting to an LDAP server.


Hopefully this info may be useful to you.


And my current project is to use Apache web server to authenticate clients using LDAP - but its not working at the moment - I want secure web pages that require username / password challenge but NOT on my Win2K box.

 

[rrsub]

Before I formulate an answer (I've dealth with LDAP, notes, Outlook before) I need more clarification on an item.

You inherited an Exchange server where outside mail was being sent to.

The clients used a POP connector to connect to Exchange and not the Exchange connector??

You goal is to kill the Exchange server itself or the client POP connector?

 

[Hardmandez]

Thanks for getting back guys, soory I haven't been to clear.

Our department uses Exchange 2000(we want to keep this). it does not act as a true mail server. All it does is mail the users within the department and stores the users mailbox.

The main business are Notes users(they will continue to be notes users).

There is an old POP3/SMTP mail server which we use for internet email. Which the users need a seperate username and password for. Therefore the Outlook clients are configured with both the Microsoft exchange serverice and the POP3 service. And internet email is delivered to the exchange mailbox via the POP3 service.

This setup means that internet email is only received into the users mailbox when the user is logged on. Which means if they want to use Outlook web access or any other remote mail devices. They will only get the messages sent between the internal exchange users. And anything they send will only be sent externally if their client is logged. On somewhere.

The main company wants to decomishion this old POP3 server and just use notes so I want to get exchange and notes talking so that mail internet email is delivered between the servers and not the clients so that the client will only be running the exchange server service.

Hope this is a bit clearer.

Thanks again.

Jose

PS I plan on looking at the Notes connector for exchange 2000 but I hear this is pain.