[Dovecot] Telephone systems and Dovecot

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Jonathan Knight [Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:52:05PM +0000]:
>
> I might not have asked that last question in the clearest way.
>
> The telephone systems access MS Exchange and Lotus notes using the IMAP4 
> interface of Exchange/Notes and a single (presumably master) username and 
> password. The telephone systems then adds voicemail messages (as a WAV 
> attachment to an ordinary message) to the users inbox and, if the user dials 
> in for their voicemail, they can access the INBOX to find the voicemail 
> messages and play those back.  From the users perspective they can either 
> get their voicemail by dialing in, or by reading their inbox and playing the 
> WAV files.
>

Ok, so I groked it the first time. That describes exactly the scenario
we have with dovecot. But our "telephone exchange" was make in-house so
we don't have that big of a problem with interoperability. And I can't
answer your next question...

> I was wondering whether anyone had any documentation on the differences 
> between using Dovecot with a master user and using exchange/notes with a 
> master user.  In other words if the telephone exchange says it fully support 
> Exchange/Notes how much work should I expect in getting it to work with 
> dovecot?
>

-- 
Jose Celestino
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