Hello everyone, I have a question. I want to migrate a companies mail software from Exchange 2003, to Qmail. Is there an easy way to do this? I have about 50 mail boxes, and I know that exchange keeps the pst files on the server (not individual pst files on the clients computer)...What features will no longer exist when migrating to qmail? The only one I noticed was the calendar system.
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Exchange 2003 to Qmail
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Missing features in qmail core from Exchange:
Common Address Book,
Calendaring (personal and shared),
Public folders,
Archives.
(maybe some other nuance features)
Under qmail these are largely replicated/replaced based upon the email client you use. You can still use Outlook as your email client against qmail and you can maintain a local calendar, do your own archiving, and maintain your own contacts. The same can be said of other clients such as Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.
More than likely the "enterprise" workflow and common pools of data (address book, calendars) will be what you miss most.
There are several threads in this forum where others have suggested qmail-based Exchange solutions where qmail is extended by other services to more directly emulate Exchange.
D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting
Common Address Book,
Calendaring (personal and shared),
Public folders,
Archives.
(maybe some other nuance features)
Under qmail these are largely replicated/replaced based upon the email client you use. You can still use Outlook as your email client against qmail and you can maintain a local calendar, do your own archiving, and maintain your own contacts. The same can be said of other clients such as Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.
More than likely the "enterprise" workflow and common pools of data (address book, calendars) will be what you miss most.
There are several threads in this forum where others have suggested qmail-based Exchange solutions where qmail is extended by other services to more directly emulate Exchange.
D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting
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Hmmmm.... This gets a bit fuzzy since I'm not an Outlook professional.
I would presume that if you took an example of an Outlook user who is trying to send an invitation to another Outlook user on another Internet domain, you'd have the correct context. Meaning, there are no Exchange-support agents/services running for the recipient to leverage so it's all dependent upon what the client software can handle.
In the case of meetings/appointments, I believe they are delivered in a particular file format/attachment and should function. You won't have the benefit of seeing shared calendars in monitoring the recipient's schedules.
D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting
I would presume that if you took an example of an Outlook user who is trying to send an invitation to another Outlook user on another Internet domain, you'd have the correct context. Meaning, there are no Exchange-support agents/services running for the recipient to leverage so it's all dependent upon what the client software can handle.
In the case of meetings/appointments, I believe they are delivered in a particular file format/attachment and should function. You won't have the benefit of seeing shared calendars in monitoring the recipient's schedules.
D.E.R. Management - IT Project Management Consulting
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