Am 15.09.2010 13:31, schrieb Jacek Osiecki:
Hi,
This might be a stupid question, since my knowledge about Exchange is really poor...
Since I've got iPhone, I have noticed that IMAP mailbox support is quite crippled in this device - in comparison to Exchange mailboxes... As I assume that it would be easier to convince Bill Gates to install linux than to convince Steve Jobs to change anything in his "perfect phone", I started searching for something that could serve emails similarly to Exchange. Since gmail provides Exchange access, and they definitely don't run a single huge MS Exchange server, I assume that it is somehow possible to implement Exchange protocols - or am I wrong?
So, finally - if it is possible to use Exchange protocol, would there be any plans for implementing it in dovecot?
Best regards,
there is no exchange protocol, there ist something like mapi which you use in a windows network beetween outlook and exchange ( and much more stuff exchange uses ...)
i guess what you want is a solution like outlook/exchange
there are a few solutions on linux out there based on open source like kolab etc, which combine to exchange function level, this has not a real a relation to dovecot which is a imap/pop3 server
but you can goal nearly same groupware functions like outlook/exchange if you combine dovecot with i.e postfix/sql, webmail horde on apache, and funambol plugins for outlook and/or thunderbird ( with acl plugin, and lightning ) cross os multidomain solution, also should work with android funambol syncml and k9 client and/or z-push ( in horde from version 4 ) for active sync, at last with spamassassin and clamav antivir this is high performance groupware mailserver solution in opensource
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MfG Robert Schetterer
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