Re: More of an NT question

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Antti Hakulinen wrote:
> 
> Example, how can you read your e-mail messages then if example,
> a very popular program named outlook :) is what you use at work?

Outlook _can_ use standard POP3, IMAP, and SMTP servers.

> If it uses exchange server as usual, you have to be logged in to
> the domain before it can be used to read e-mail... Am i right?

Exchange Server additional domain services beyond those required
for domain members.  While NT supports these, the Samba Team has
not yet been able to decipher and implement all of these in Samba.
Thus, no current Samba release supports Exchange.  Samba TNG, a
newer project deidcated more to implementing MS DCE/RPC services
in general, may support this, but that is just a rumor.

Personally, I would not run Exchange for a variety of reasons
unrelated to Samba vs. NT.  IMO, Exchange is really lousy choice
of mail server under the best of circumstances.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com