Microsoft Exchange Server

The information on this page is quite outdated, since I no longer deal with deploying and operating large-scale messaging systems and Exchange itself is no longer a mainstream product.

Microsoft‘s mail and collaboration plaftorm, which evolved from an X.400-like MTA into an SMTP-optimized behemoth with client-side MAPI, IMAP4, NNTP, POP3 and WebDAV support, and later into the full-blown SaaS known as Office 365.

• How Exchange’s Autodiscover Works With Mail.app
• Brutus, a library and proxy connector to access Exchange servers.
• PostPath supplies a MAPI transport to emulate Exchange-like functionality on UNIX servers
• MS Exchange Blog
• The Exchange Project – Syncing Exchange to iCal and back
• Slipstick Systems – simply the best Exchange and Outlook site you’ll ever find.
• Accessing an Exchange mailbox using WebDAV
• ASP.NET for WebDAV access.

• Grommunio, a full blown native reimplementation of most of the core protocols
• DAVMail, a combined POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP gateway between Exchange and open protocols.
• Zarafa, another company doing a clone stack.
• OpenChange, an attempt at re-implementing the necessary protocols in a portable fashion, supplying MAPI libraries, Wireshark dissectors, the works.