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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ve</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">recently installed a linux machine</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mail gateway using Qmail and LDAP authe</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tication</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (LDAP works easily with Qmail) in a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> similar environment you described</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">lso using SpamAssasin</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. Antivirus checking is not a problem</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">either;</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> a lot of documentation</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">exists</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> in the net about this kind of setups.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyway, I think that if you’re authenticating from the AD, a samba version 3 and winbind</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">would do it (as mentioned in another mail</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> by Scott Silva)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I’ve done this for authenticating users and groups from AD for ssh logins to Linux boxes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> using PAM modules</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> as well as for testing user authentication for Squid</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (NTLM authentication)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There are other issues in this kind of migration tasks however.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For example if you change from Exchange to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">an MTA you mentioned</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> as</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">your</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> main mail server</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, you loose the calendar functionality, which might be an important feature in an enterprise.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Also, be sure to plan the client side migration well (the client your users use for email and possibly other tasks) if needed.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In general, a mail gateway for Exchange should be easy to implement with Linux, but migrating the whole Exhange system (which is not just the MTA) is more complicated.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">are also</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">commercial</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">options</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> for Linux</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">migrating away from MS Exchange</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, like the SUSE</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Opene</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">x</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">change Server</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (which works with Outlook clients too).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As for the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailbox</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">migration tools, I suppose there does exist</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">commercial</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> migration solutions.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Haven</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">t done any search though (I do have seen some compan</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ies</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> offering mailbox migration tools</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/services</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Lotus</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Notes, Exhange, Sendmail..).</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Novel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tuukka</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">De:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org [<A HREF="mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org">mailto:whitebox-users-bounces@beau.org</A>]</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="es"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">En nombre de</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Erick Perez<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Enviado el:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:39 PM<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Para:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> whitebox-users@beau.org<BR>
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Asunto:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma"> [WBEL-users] WBEL 4 and sendmail replacing exchange</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">Hi,</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">A plan has been established to migrate from MS Exchange Server 2000 running in Windows 2000 Server, to Sendmail in WBEL4.</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">Authentication must be Windows Domain based(Active Directory)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">User base: 500</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">mailbox size per user: aprox. 250 megs</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">The ideas that come to my mind are:</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">what mailstore technology to use:<BR>
plain mailbox, courier/maildir, or cyrus?</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">I heard cyrus is the most reliable for large use.<BR>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">what MTA to use:<BR>
postfix, sendmail, or qmail?</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">If I choose sendmail, i will go for the commercial version</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">what authentication database to use:<BR>
ldap via pam, sql via pam, sasl via pam, or plain password/shadow<BR>
does it have ActiveDirectory integration?</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">what other features to include<BR>
anti virus screening? MUST HAVE<BR>
anti spam screening? MUST HAVE</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">Are there any mailbox/rules migration tools?</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="es">Sugestions are welcomed.</SPAN></P>
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Erick Perez<BR>
Linux User 376588<BR>
</SPAN><A HREF="http://counter.li.org/"><SPAN LANG="es"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF">http://counter.li.org/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="es"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="es"> (Get counted!!!)<BR>
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