From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 20 13:22:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A1316A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:22:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2239743D39 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:22:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3F860F4 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:22:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72796-06 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:22:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D3460F3 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:21:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <423D78FF.7080108@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:22:07 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <129416735.20050319101608@wanadoo.fr> <266982083.20050320105247@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <266982083.20050320105247@wanadoo.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:22:05 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > >>Fine, you list the features you think are key ones and I'll provide it. > > > Why not just buy Exchange? > > You make the same mistake that so many people with emotional investments > in software make: You feel you must look for non-Microsoft solutions > _just for the sake of avoiding Microsoft_. But in this case, as in > several other cases, the Microsoft solution tends to be the best > overall. And if one has no sacred mission to drive Microsoft back into > the Pit, there's no reason to look for cobbled UNIX solutions that do > the same thing. > > >>No it doesen't. Exchange has a better feature set than MANY of the UNIX >>solutions but not all. > > > Show me the one-stop UNIX solution that meets or beats Exchange. Have a look here: eGroupWare (at egroupware.org) OpenGroupware.org (at opengroupware.org) Open Source Exchange Replacement (at oser.sourceforge.net) OPEN-XCHANGE (at open-xchange.org) PHPGroupware (at phpgroupware.org) -- Best regards, Chris Everything may be divided into as many parts as you please.