Jagga Soorma wrote:
I am trying to convince my co-workers to move from Exchange 2003 to a unix implementation of sendmai/dovecot.
Good luck on that. ;-)
First, is there a way for dovecot running on a linux server to authenticate a user to a windows 2003 domain controller?
dovecot can support any PAM authentication method, and you can use PAM to either do NTDomain or ActiveDirectory logins.
If so, then where can I get information on how to implement and test this feature?
Check the wiki:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/PAMAlso, do you guys know of any calender software that can be used with this implementation as well? Where users can maybe share their meetings?
There isn't anything particularly good right now for calendaring/scheduling (though there are some projects out there in alpha stage).
You could check out Zimbra, which does calendaring and scheduling, as well as supporting lookOut (with the commercial license). But it is a monolithic beast right now; you have to install a whole suite of their own customized RPM's, so you don't get to use dovecot. It does store the messages in the database and has a wicked cool AJAX web interface, but I decided it wasn't worth it just yet...
John
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