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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 04:48 AM EDT |
I know that hotmail used to be run on FreeBSD machines... Is that what you were
looking for?
Wikipedia has a mention of it, and Google shows lots of results. Here's the
Wikipedia quote:
"Hotmail initially ran under Solaris for mail services and Apache on
FreeBSD for web services before being converted to Microsoft products."
I do remember MS catching a lot of flack about this, and it took several
attempts to switch everything away from the BSDs (if they really have, anyway.
I seem to remember something about them claiming to have replaced the FreeBSD
systems with their stuff, and I think it was someone in the FreeBSD mailing
lists who made a point to prove that "beastie" was still there behind
the scenes :) )
Those were the fun days. :)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 21 2012 @ 05:32 AM EDT |
I know people working at UoA who use Thunderbird on MacOS,
but there was a problem with certificate acceptance on Fedora.
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Authored by: mschmitz on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 06:12 PM EDT |
If it helps - MS did use BSD mail servers in the past. What you're faced with is
not the 'mail server' you think you are - the BSD mail servers MS used were the
mail relays sending, accepting and forwarding mail.
Your problem is the mail presentation back end which UoA decided to migrate to
Exchange a few years back. (I started using postbox, a Horde IMAP back end, that
was actually running on Linux. The server was aging rapidly and not replaced).
The decision to switch to Exchange was made at a level not accessible to regular
users, and I'm sure it was informed by considerations on how to integrate e-mail
into the entire office workflow. I'm awfully sorry to say Linux solutions don't
do so well in that area. Correct me if I'm wrong there.
UoA Exchange does interface OK with IMAP mail clients such as MacOS Mail and
Linux Thunderbird OK (unless you want automatic calendaring integration).
On the whole, the Exchange web interface and the Exchange implementation has
improved a lot over the years - it was a desaster initially; Linux users could
only use the 'light' web front end and setting forwarding, filtering or
autoreply options did require a real Outlook client.
If you have a genuine problem with IMAP access to Exchange, I've found the IT
support staff to be helpful and competent. If you can't get help from your
faculty IT support, get in contact with me and I can give you the settings I use
in Thunderbird.
-- mschmitz
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