[OT]: Dual email management systems

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jun 28 22:20:08 UTC 2007


> 1) It would not matter which system managed your mail, your email 
> address would be the same. This is the one that is giving me the most 
> grief in trying to figure out. How would a message know which system to 
> go to? The prospect of managing alias tables in sendmail do not appeal 
> to me at all.

IMAP will handle all your mail happily but you probably will end up with
some kind of tables. LDAP would be the obvious way to do this.

> 2) There would need to be an integrated or shared global address book. 
> Anybody should be able to find anybody else regardless of email manager.

LDAP

> 3) Though not a requirement, it would be nice if a person could 
> "graduate" from "basic" to "advanced" with a minimum of hassle.
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

LDAP updates - although moving email between systems if you've left it on
the server might not be quite so fun.




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