Topic: Use Microsoft exchange and e-smith

[Yves ESSE]

Hi,
We had a meil server using Microsoft Exchange and an authentification server with Windows NT. We want know to change our authentification server by e-smith. We have already installed e-smith and the authentification is ok. The problem now is that we can't use our mail service. We use Microsoft exchange as mail server and outlook for client.
Can you please give us the procedure to use e-smith for the authentification and Microsoft exchange for the mail.
Thanks

[laurent]

hi are you french ?
ok, i have a e-smith as gateway and an nt4 server for exchange server.
for your installation, yopu need to make a portforward  (80 ? for e-mail) on e-smith.
you have a french news group at :

server : news.tranbert.dyndns.org
alt.e-smith.fr

Laurent

[Chris Meredith]

Did you join the Exchange server to the E-Smith/Samba domain?  I am assuming you are using Exchange 5.5?

[Patrick]

I have an SME server setup in "Server" only mode on my LAN.  I would like it to use an existing Exchange 5.5 server for all email duties (not my choice but I cannot change it yet).  I assume I just need to configure SME to "delegate" mail server duties to the exchange server?  Thanks.

[jb]

Are you wanting to use imp webmail to front-end the exchange server?  Or are you just wanting imp to be able to relay mail through the exchange server?  What version SME server?

I have set this up doing both.  Here are some tips assuming you are using 5.1 or 5.12. If using 5.5, I haven't looked at the imp 3.0 settings yet.

From server-manager, other e-mail settings, put the exchange server's IP address in the SMTP field. This will allow webmail to relay mail via exchange.

Next go to
/etc/e-smith/templates/home/httpd/html/horde/imp/config/defaults.php3

cp 125minimumPopups /home/e-smith/files/primary/files - Just in case

pico -w 125minimumPopups - change from true to false. This will eliminate the extra message users will get when sending mail.  (optional)

cp 200IMAPConfiguration /home/e-smith/files/primary/files - Just in case

pico -w 200IMAPConfiguration - change from
$default->server = '{$SystemName}.{$LocalDomainPrefix}{$DomainName}'; to
$default->server = 'x.x.x.x'; x's = internal ip address of exchange server

Go to
/home/httpd/html/horde/imp/config

cp mailbox.php3 /home/e-smith/files/primary/files - Just in case

pico mailbox.php3 - change default sort_dir from 0 to 1. This will sort from newest messages to older messages.

You also have to edit the exchange settings to allow you e-smith server to relay mail throuh it.  My test exchange server is down so I can't tell you the exact place to go for this.

That should be it.

All the users should have to do is input NT username and password and mail should be pulled from the exchange server via IMAP.

Others may tell you that you should use templates-custom, which is probably better, but I haven't taken the time properly do that.  Tips on templates-custom stuff can be found at www.myezserver.com.

All of these changes should survive a signal-event console-save.

Good Luck,
JB