[KLUG Members] Re: Email compatibility

[Mike Williams]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:59:01 -0400
> From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
> To: KLUG members <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
> Date: 08 Aug 2002 08:50:27 -0400
> Subject: [KLUG Members] Email compatibility?
> 
> I have a canned piece of software (voice mail) that can be configured 
> to send email under certain conditions, and I'd like that to happen.
> However, it only lists compatibility with M$ Exchange, and I don't want
> it to happen bad enough to setup an Exchange server just for it.
> 
> I have zero experience with Exchange, and know nothing about it.  My
> questions are:  Is outgoing email on Exchange standard SMTP?  If I point
> this software to a Linux/Sendmail server, should I expect it to work? 
> Or is the Exchange protocol something PROPRIETARY?

I've worked with Exchange a bit.  It will make a big difference how this
voice mail expects to connect to an Exchange server.  Exchange DOES
handle standard email protocols (STMP and such) but that's not its
native mode.  It has its own (read proprietary) way of talking to other
Exchange servers.  Without knowing more about the software I can't say
for sure, but I doubt it will work with sendmail or anything.  If you
can give me some tidbits from the manual I might be able to translate
them from "Microsoftese" to English.

-- 
Mike Williams <knightperson@zuzax.com>