From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 14:58:34 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 798F316A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6C2A43D54 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:58:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.150?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2005 14:58:32 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Christian Tischler In-Reply-To: <423AD243.5030601@myunix.net> References: <423AD243.5030601@myunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1111157911.33063.10.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:58:32 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:58:34 -0000 On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: > Hi, > I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing > to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware > virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would > be stable (sopken in terms of windows stability). The next consideration > would be the performance of the overal setup. > > Any hints or suggenstions would be great. > > thx > > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I have never heard of anyone using Exchange on a non-Windows machine, and I can't see much point. The license fee for Exchange swamps the OS license. I expect you could run VMWare with Windows as a guest OS, but for something as critical as your mail server, I would dedicate a Windows machine to it. I doubt it would work with WINE. Basically, if you have to hold your nose to run Exchange, you may as well hold it a little tighter and run Windows. If not, look at FreeBSD/Sendmail-or-Postfix/Evolution as a very reliable mail service.