-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thinker wrote: | Hello All, | | I have a client with 5 machines/users on a peer to peer network. The | only network resource they share is access to the Internet. About an | hour ago, he asked me to help him set up email addresses for the 5 | people in the office. He visited a friend that has an exchange server | and all of the employees are using outlook. He asked me if I could set | his office up the same way. | | After going over the potential security risks associated with using | Exchange and Outlook, I think I finally have him convinced that | Outlook/Exchange is a bad idea. He is now giving me the opportunity to | come up with more secure alternatives. This is where I need the help. | | He wants to be able to open the program or website and schedule a | meeting with the people that he needs to attend. Those people should in | turn receive an email (or whatever notice possible) stating the meeting | has been scheduled, who scheduled it and should be allowed to confirm | that they will be there. | | There should be a universal address book that allows you to associate | birthdays and anniversaries with contacts and those birthdays and | anniversaries should show up on the calendar. | | They already have PCs or laptops which are either running Windows XP or | Windows 2000. They have a spare machine that I could install Linux on if | need be, but the users will still have to run Windows on their machines. | | If there is a web based solution for all of this, they can get the web | space if needed. The main thing is, he wants to be able to sync all of | this with his Handspring Treo. | | Is there such an animal? | | .:Thinker You could try Netmail from Novell, Open Exchange from SuSE, or got to www.open-xchange.org and sign up to get the source for Open Exchange (the same that SuSE uses) since is going to be released under GPL. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBIfvY5JB+bPW3+KwRAuZsAJ43AtD1QsQPOpGbP5anCf40A2+ryQCdHUiv s4EcGKghSpy/+LXnn+e7t9g= =eCRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----