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Check
out Mercury/Pegasus Mail systems for a full-featured mail server (not a
discussion or App server, a la Exchange and Domino, however). If you're looking
for a smaller server that can be administered by the brain-dead, get ArGo Mail
Server (I even use that when I just need an SMTP server). For simplified Web
access, but alas no POP or IMAP support, Deerfield's EMail Guardian (now in
beta) looks promising. Their MDaemon mail server has POP (and IMAP, IIRC)
capabilities and is a little more full-featured (neither are free, but they're
alot cheaper than Exchange-both in initial costs and support). It may also have
a web client, but I can't recall right now.
Exchange (especially 2000) is too resource and
support-intensive to be used as a SMB mail server. The only thing Exchange
offers which is hard to replicate with other, smaller programs, is the
Calendaring. If someone has suggestions to replace
Oh, and I think
Exchange has caught up a bit more to Domino lately, and GroupWise holds a steady
3rd place.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly
Borndale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 09,
2001 11:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
Exchange 2000
To go a bit beyond "vanilla", many of them can also be set
up as IMAP servers and have list serv type software as well. All for
free.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
K.Borndale
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 10:47
PM
Subject: RE: Exchange 2000
>>Even I-mail, a plain vanilla (boring) email server
isn't far
behind in price!
If a client just wants a basic POP/SMTP
server, the price for the product
would be almost nothing. Postfix
and Sendmail on some free *nix works just
fine.
Beer for Clayton
and Joe.
William
-----Original Message-----
From:
Joe L. Casale
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: 9/9/01 12:55
AM
Subject: RE: Exchange 2000
I think 1300.00 bucks Canadian last
I checked for E2k?
Expensive?
Considering what you can do w/ it, I
think not!
Geesh! Even I-mail, a plain vanilla (boring) email server
isn't far
behind in price! As far as the sec holes in OL, well I am not
worried,
part of the cost of doing biz I think. The man hours associated
w/
exchange are practically nill! Automated backups, I verify 'em for
fun
once and a while, and maybe if I am bored, Ill pull it offline for
a
defrag. Think I did that 5 times in my life! Maybe while your
investing
in all the man hours keeping your working, I peruse my eyes
through M$'s
site and look for new OL
holes!
Jlc
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:40 PM
To: NT System Admin
Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2000
I've been on systems with
Exchange, Groupwise and Notes. Currently
working with Notes
R5. I dont really like any of them - they are
all
too
cumbersome. I havent worked with any of the new
web clients yet - one
thing I really dislike is the monster client they
all have. I am happy
that I dont have to try to keep up with
all the Outlook security
problems
though. We have had zero
security problems with Notes R5. I would
rather have a
simple email system such as Novell IMS which requires no
administration
if you are using NDS. Then use a webserver for intranet
and
database front end to take the place of the Notes databases.
We
use
all the features of Notes but it takes a huge amount of
support
manhours.
Last I read, Notes has about 60 million seats
and Exchange has about 35
million. Everyone else is an
also-ran. Whatever features one has
over
the other will
probably be shortlived, as they tend to converge on the
feature set that
the users want. I'm glad I dont have to select
one
over the other right now. They are all bloated, too expensive,
and a
black
hole for support
hours.
"Michael
L.
Callahan"
To: "NT System Admin
Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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cc:
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Subject: RE: Exchange
2000
09/08/2001
02:26
PM
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