Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:44:08 +1100 From: "MurrayTaylor" <MurrayTaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: "Fernando Gleiser" <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <001701c16bcb$8a821ac0$2a7627cb@bytecraft.au.com> References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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From: "Fernando Gleiser" <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:37 AM
Subject: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange
>
> A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$
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
true true true
> 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?
not really
However I am running Postfix / Cyrus IMAP here and have had no complaints
from the users
with respect to the email capabilities. We also are using the Cyrus Sieve
rules for
handling minor retargetting of emails for some of our road worriers ;-)
The previous M$ Exchange server has been perceived to be 'slower' and
'sometimes lost emails'.
These comments are from our user base and are NOT definitive.
I know that using Postfix/Cyrus/Sieve our mail server has been very simple
to administer.
The clients _must_ use Outlook Express as most installs of Outlook cant talk
IMAP,
however you can enable POP3 on the Cyrus server.
OR you can setup a non M$lop mail client .... Eudora, Squirrel(?), etc...
Address books are currently local to all users with the sysops distributing
a global address book via a .csv file during client setup.
I'm looking into LDAP for later expansion here.
OTH, there is no analog of the M$lop Exchange Server shared calendar in this
setup.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fer
>
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