From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 15:54: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671F737B418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [217.35.33.111] (helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by rhenium with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 163QBK-0000fC-00; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:07:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.ehsrealtime.com) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 163QFH-00006X-00; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:12:03 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 163Q9S-0000hr-00; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:06:02 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: Subject: Re: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange References: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Date: 12 Nov 2001 23:06:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Message-ID: <86bsi77fon.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Fernando Gleiser writes: > 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 > 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? Just a word of warning here. If all they are using Exchange for is mail, then no problems. Something like exim or postfix with an LDAP server for the address book should sort everything out. If however, they are using it for shared calendaring or the calendar and mail client integration, be careful. I don't know of any applications on Unix platforms that provide this kind of 'groupware'. If anyone has any information to contradict this, I'd be interested to hear it. I'd love to be able to punt a decent alternative to Exchange. -- - Wayne Pascoe | Be nice to your daemons. freebsd@molemanarmy.com | http://www.molemanarmy.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message