From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 08:52:45 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 7EC8316A4CF for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0368843D2D for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:52:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j2J8qsb13802 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:52:44 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <526177289.20050319004436@wanadoo.fr> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal 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: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:52:45 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Anthony > Atkielski > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 3:45 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? > > > > Exchange is the best choice for intra-organizational e-mail on > relatively homogenous internal networks. The many features of Exchange > provide a great many relevant and useful advantages in this type of > environment. > Not really true unless you do an apples to oranges comparison. Exchange has lots of benefits against a simple Sendmail+popper UNIX mailserver. However, a fully tricked-out UNIX mail server can be configured to have just as many additional 'advantages' that an Exchange server has. Exchange is popular simply because many corporations bought into NT4, and 2000 server, and were looking for a way to use their existing file and print servers to handle e-mail. Buying Exchange was seen as a cheaper way to get a mailserver than to go out and setup a new server running UNIX. And keep in mind that the only serious coompetitor in Windows mailserver server software was Netscape and we know what happened to them. > For heterogenous networks and ISPs, Exchange is a poor choice, because > most users won't be able to profit from it, and because it is very > difficult to implement when many machines in a network are non-Windows > (and the Exchange servers themselves _must_ run Windows). > Not true any longer. The latest Exchange versions have good support for non-Windows systems. However Exchange makes a poor choice for ISP's because ISP's deal in a far higher volume of e-mail and of mailboxes than Exchange server is designed for. Even the smallest ISP's can easily do a thousand mailboxes, and a thousand mailboxes is considered a pretty large Enterprise installation for an Exchange server. (by everybody other than Microsoft's marketing departments, of course) Licensing for the volumes of clients that ISP's run is cost-prohibitive espically considering so many ISPs are giving out mailboxes for free. Ted