If you really need Exchange and only have 10 users I would look at a hosted solution, there's a lot out there and they could handle your BB's also. We were an Mdaemon shop also until we got to about 100 users and needed Exchange for work flow routing etc with our ERP. I still use Mdaemon as a secondary Gateway behind our Barracuda for spam/virus detection. For a couple hundred $$/year it makes a great secondary gateway scanner and backup if the primary were to ever fail.
________________________________ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Numberall Stamp & Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com <http://www.numberall.com/> PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net <http://www.numberall.net/> ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
