Chris Schumann writes: > The client expects to have a total of less than ten clients. What specific needs do they have that require Outlook? We use Exchange at work for a company not much larger than that. Personally, I use POP3 to check my mail, but everyone else seems to like Outlook. It seems that people like it for three main reasons: 1) Server side mail storage 2) Shared address book 3) Calendar functions Service side mail can be handled with IMAP. qmail and Courier IMAP work very well together. Shared address book can be accomplished through a variety of methods. LDAP is a widely supported method that works with Microsoft clients and some open source including Mozilla Mail. Calendar and other groupware functions are more difficult to handle, but shouldn't necessarily be part of the email client. Some good web based software such as phpGroupWare might work just as well. On the flip side, I did some searching, but apparently very few companies do Exchange hosting. Here is one company that I did find: http://www.intermedia.net/hosting/exchange/ Microsoft also has a list of Gold Certified Partners for Hosted Exchange: http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/certification/hostedexchange.asp -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list