On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:18, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Hopefully this isn't too off-topic.... > > After running a successful and reliable Linux/Sendmail installation for 3 > years, the boss has decided we absolutely must have Microsoft Exchange. > >
We abandoned exchange largely due to the overhead involved in supporting it. For a small company without a full time IT body to nurse it along, restart it when it dies, and reset it when it decides refuse connections it really isn't a good option. > While I would like to be able to provide group scheduling and todo lists, > I can't see any way of doing this with open source systems. Samsung > Contact offers some hope in that it will still run on Linux. MS Outlook > will not cope with the volume of Email I receive. Nor will it > (apparrently) automatically sort incoming mail without MS Exchange. > Have you looked at phpgroupware (www.phpgroupware.org), it has a way to go, is a little slow in places but looks like its going in the right direction. Many functions actually work. > Anybody any sound advice regarding the pitfalls? Can one implement > hot-desking using Outlook? Currently we use Eudora on the desktops, and > were planning to transfer the data and config to a file server to allow > this. > My experience is outlook handles a decent load on NT based OS, if you have any win9x client machines expect a lot of trouble with anyone who sends and receives a lot of email. > What other nasty's await us? I previously worked at site where there were > about 50 users connected to a MS Exchange server which seemed to be a > full time job administering it, and was very unreliable. Unfortunately my > boss thinks that I'm just being obstinate so supporting URLs would be a > help. > Install it hand him the manual and go on holiday for a fortnight, he'll come round. dode -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
