From: Andrew (jasari_iyahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 05 2004 - 17:41:04 CST

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--- Craig Sanders <castaz.net.au> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:25:07AM -0800, Andrew
> wrote:
> > At present anyone that wants an e-mail address
> asks me
> > for an email address and I create them one using
> > postfix, it works I don't need to tweak it, I just
> > leave it alone.
>
> good. it works, why fix it?
>
> > With the need for email developing I would like to
> give the older
> > children email accounts.
> >
> > I use windows 2003 server active directory for the
> accounts so I
> > thought I would put exchange on a machine, that
> would then create the
> > email users for me, it would give me the option to
> use the out of the
> > box configured OWA - Outlook Web Access etc.
>
> if your users aren't already hooked on Outlook, i
> strongly suggest you take
> this remarkable opportunity to get them using
> something else BEFORE they decide
> that Outlook is what email clients should be.
>
> use Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, or pretty much
> anything else *except* for
> Outlook. you will thank yourself for doing this
> when you realise you have
> only a fraction of the virus problems that you would
> otherwise have if most of
> your users were using outlook.
>
> if you have the authority to do so, go one step
> further and ban the use of
> Outlook on your network. if you don't have that
> authority, then try to
> convince whoever does.
>
> > In short what I would like to use postfix as what
> I understand to be a
> > mailrelay. That is I would like to use the postfix
> machine to sit in
> > the DMZ and receive mail for the users already
> with exchange accounts.
> > Can I have it that the mail sits on the postfix
> machine until the
> > exchange mail pulls it down?
>
> if the accounts don't already exist in Exchange,
> then why give yourself the
> headache? why not just create accounts on the
> postfix box (optionally with
> shell=/bin/false so they can't log in to get a
> command line shell)?
>
> unless there is a real and existing need for the
> extra non-mail features of
> exchange (shared calendars, etc) that can't be met
> with some other program,
> then you are better off not using exchange. it's
> way more complicated than a
> mail server needs to be, and far less reliable than
> a mail server ought to be
> too.
>
> craig
>
> --
> craig sanders <castaz.net.au> (part time
> cyborg)
>
> my postfix scripts are at
> http://taz.net.au/postfix/scripts/
>
Whilst I would normally agree with what you say with
regard to if it works dont fix it, you hit the nail on
the head with why I might want it.

We are a school, we need to be able to see where staff
are, i.e.share calenders, schedule appointments,
auto-schedule appointments and book rooms etc.. if
there is a opensource product that has all of the
functionality of exchange then I'd like to hear about
it.

Thanks

Andrew

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