[ILUG] Replacement suggestions for Exchange outlook web email please....

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Brian O'Donoghue (Brian.ODonoghue at kbs.ie):

> [It's very sweet - http://www.bynari.net/bynari/insightcon.html for
> more information.]
> 
> If I could get this thing to run on Slackware the office could move away
> from exchange tomorrow... see as of exchange service pack 1 through 5 there
> is a bug introduced that 'does not' decrement the licence count of the
> exchange server, such that in an organisation like ours when you have 15
> licences and 15 users... and one user logs off and the licence count 'does
> not' get decremented... you end up with users getting locked out of mail
> services... which means a reboot of the server... which you can imagine the
> least convient time to happen is when the most people are using it.. which
> also happens to be the most likely time for such a bug to appear....

Hmm, I'm used to answering a slightly different question, that of
suggesting Linux client strategies for an existing MS-Exchange server.
FAQ item is here, and it has some relevance to your situation:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/kb/187

(The URL and document format are temporary:  I had to strip down a 
knowledgebase in a hurry from a really awful on-line hosting system.)

> Question: has anyone got the bynari sweetness working on Slackware 8.0.. if
> so endow such elder knowledge asap.

Can't help you there.  It might help if you posted details of whatever
difficulties you've encountered.

-- 
Cheers,            There are only 10 types of people in this world -- 
Rick Moen          those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't.
rick at linuxmafia.com