Topic: Small Business server

[Boris]

Replace it with SUSE OpenExchange server. You LookOut users won't even notice substitute.

[Nick Critten]

Trust me I would LOVE to do that, But it would involve them spending money, and is therefore not going to happen.

All I keep getting is: "When is the WebMail going to work?, When is the WebMail going to work?, When is the WebMail going to work?"

And the thing is I'm completely stumped!

If I had had my way when the Job was specced out I would have put in an SME box, but unfortunately someone else specced the job and supplied an SBS then expected me to sort it all out!

Bloody typical.

Nick

[Jon R]

Nick Critten wrote:

>> All I keep getting is: "When is the WebMail going to work?,
> When is the WebMail going to work?, When is the WebMail going
> to work?"
>
> And the thing is I'm completely stumped!
>

Did you ever get this working?  I'm trying to do something similar.  I have a client running SBS2000 and using SME5.6 as the gateway.  OWA working fine internally.

I've used the PortForwarding contrib to forward ports 80 and 81 (for testing) to port 80 on the SBS.  I get the authentication screen but can't log in.

I've tried the different login settings in the IIS control panel for the Exchange 'website', including plain text authorisation.  I also found details of other ports to open to allow authentication (UDP 135-139, I think).  I also forwarded them, but without luck.

As a desperate measure I even used the PortForward contrib to redirect all ports on the SME on to the SBS server (just long enough to test!).  Still get the login screen & then fail to authenticate.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Nick Critten]

No I didn't, In the end I gave the M$ server a swift kick and looked for alternatives...

I Found out that you can connect to Exchange using IMAP so I took away the Port 80 and 443 Port forwards and enabled Port 143.

Currently there's only one or two people who need access to it, So I've given them instructions on how to use Lookout Distress (I Mean Outlook Express - How silly of me ) to connect to it.

I Feel far safer having that running than Port forwarding 80 & 443 to a M$ Product. I get a shiver every time i think about it.

Brrrrr.

btw, I'm in the process of writing a PHP -> IMAP WebInterface by following the instructions on DEVSHED. If you're desparate for a webmail interface, you could try the same.

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-A-PHPBased-Mail-Client-part-1/
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-A-PHPBased-Mail-Client-part-2/
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-A-PHPBased-Mail-Client-part-3/

Let me Know how you get on.


Nick

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