From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 14:44:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (wombat.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D461037B416 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from lt99101401.bytecraft.au.com (unknown [203.39.118.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with SMTP id F10B93F60; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:44:09 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <001701c16bcb$8a821ac0$2a7627cb@bytecraft.au.com> Reply-To: "MurrayTaylor" From: "MurrayTaylor" To: "Fernando Gleiser" , References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:44:08 +1100 Organization: Bytecraft Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando Gleiser" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:37 AM Subject: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange > > A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$ 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Pty Ltd email: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com web(s): www.bytecraftsystems.com www.bytecraftentertainment.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message