From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 21:20:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0378937B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a113.otenet.gr [212.205.215.113]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fAD5K3202006; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 07:20:03 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAD5K3N10553; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 07:20:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 07:20:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Fernando Gleiser , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <20011113052003.GC6288@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <003601c16b83$a508f500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003601c16b83$a508f500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Fernando Gleiser > >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > >A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$ Exchange > >to BSD runing Sendmail or Postfix and IMAP. He says BSD is better because > >it uses standard protocols, it is more stable, it uses less hardware > >resources, etc but the boss wants to see some docs with comparisons between > >both setups. Does anybody have any pointers to (web|magazine|whatever) > >articles comparing Exchange with a Unix MTA? > ... > > Think of all the time your friend is wasting running around trying > to prove a system that other people set up for other mailsystems is > better - he could have probably gotten a quarter of the work done of > putting together a FreeBSD demo by now. Less talk and more work is > what is prescribed here. Amen to that. Work proves things much easier :) Talk is bound to get boring pretty quickly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message