From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 09:19:57 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 EE65D16A4CF for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9921E43D54 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:19:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id BEAA31C0008D for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:19:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 849991C00083 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:19:55 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050319091955543.849991C00083@mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:19:55 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <245622616.20050319101955@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <423BEAD4.6040207@myunix.net> References: <423AD243.5030601@myunix.net> <423BEAD4.6040207@myunix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:19:57 -0000 Christian Tischler writes: > Thanks for all the replies. I will take a look at the, more or less, > open solutions. I never intended to use the MS exchange as my primary > mail server. But its functionality for syncinig calenders, documents and > so on, seemed to a "nice" "simple" way of dealing with my situation > here. I have to admit, that I never used a windows server, and thought > it should be fairly easy. Now by looking at your submissions, and the > docs, which tend to give me headaches, I realize that an Free BSD > solution must be found to get the job done. If you are running a large organization and you need the type of functionality Exchange provides, Exchange is still likely to be the best choice. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for. Conversely, though, if you aren't going to use all the advanced features it provides, you're throwing money out the window if you buy it. The complexity also implies lots and lots of high-performance hardware and a substantial load on sysadmins, too (actually, if you have Exchange, you should have one or more dedicated mail administrators--the workload tends to be too much for sysadmins, once you are using all the product's features). Note that Exchange is strongly contraindicated in networked environments with low-speed connections between nodes (anything less than 1 Mbps these days, I'd say). Even client connections need to be really fast if the clients are using the full feature set. -- Anthony