[olug] Looking for Advice/Comments

[Phil Brutsche]

Quoting Jeff Hinrichs <jlh at home.com>:

> Here is the scenario to date:
> I am evaluating replacing our exchange(4.x) server (40 users/shared
> folders/shared contacts/scheduling).
> 
> I was evaluating Bynari's InsightServer (was TradeServer), however do
> to problems I encountered with their installation I am going about it
> myself.

Would you like to elaborate on those problems?

> (If anyone wants more info let me know and I'll share.)  Anyway, here
> is where I am headed.
> 
> Cyrus-Imapd    (http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/)
> Cyrus-SASL

If you're not going to be doing virtual mail domains I would recommend
Courier-IMAP instead - the administration interface is much easier to deal
with.  And you don't need create the user database in duplicate/triplicate
to satisfy the needs of the Cyrus software :)  Unless you can get Cyrus to
use /etc/passwd as a user database and PAM for authentication.

> Exim                  (www.exim.org)

:)

> Apache   1.3.20 (www.apache.org)
>     SSL
>     mod_php4
>     mod_perl
>     et al
> SquirrelMail web interface (www.squirrelmail.org)
> OpenLDAP        (boy, did I kick myself when I found out I missed the
> meeting on that :( )

I'm not against helping people out via the list.

> I am trying to keep this a "closed" box with only IMAP accounts via SASL
> and IMAP.

And for admin purposes, of course :)

> I am looking for the following tools:
> LDAP    (tools to import current shared info from exchange)

I would imagine you would be able to:

* Extract data from Exchange via the ldapsearch command line tool
* Possibly edit some stuff in the resulting LDIF file
* Insert that LDIF file into the OpenLDAP directory

I don't know of anything automated.

> Web interface for Sieve

I know of no such interface.  I'd like to hear about it if you do find one
:)

> Has anyone on the list done anything similar?  Any words of wisdom you
> would like to share?
> 
> I have been documenting my adventure for later publication to the olug
> website.  I haven't found any resources on migrating an existing user
> base away from Exchange.


Phil

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