On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 07:46, Terry Cole wrote: > With all the MS problems/virus as well as Exchange problems I have been > having..
Others can comment on the rest, but since I have an exchange server here and probably most of the problems you've had, I'll comment here. Exchange is a festering heap of fertilliser. There is no way to move all the existing mail from ES to any other mailserver other than forwarding all email manually. We have made a partial change - I run squirrelmail on the webserver (linux) which is a webmail/imap gateway, and that runs fairly well. Users will loose all the calendaring/schedualling/addressbook components of exchange server too, when you change to something else. But then - its impossible to restore a single email from a tape backup... you have to restore the lot to a scratch machine then forward it to the real server, so I have always told users to save important emails to disk. You might have to bite the bull's horns and change wholesale, loosing the old mail... which is going to be a real turn-off for users.
