Microsoft outlook and Linux mail servers?
Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at
10:00
I was wondering if you ran a linux mail server, and had the end users connect to the mail server with outlook, would they be able to see the email ?
or
convince everyone to use like thunderbird ?
Yes, I know about exchange server…but don’t wanna spend a ton of money on 50 employees.
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Yes they can. Set it up for Outlook to use imap or pop3.
Yes, Outlook would just connect to it as a normal POP3/IMAP (whatever you use) server. The only specific functionality that a Windows server could provide is Exchange, which is a major pain in the ass.
IMAP and POP3 will work – additionally, some Linux-based mail servers do support certain levels of "Exchange Compatability" – though often these require commercial components. Research the products formerly known as eBox and ClarkConnect for some ideas there.