Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 06:09:29 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Fernando Gleiser" <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange Message-ID: <003601c16b83$a508f500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011112102721.H71050-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Fernando >Gleiser >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 5:37 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: slightly OT: Unix MTA vs Exchange > > > >A friend of mine is trying to convince his boss to migrate from M$ 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 >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? > While you can read a bunch of articles this isn't the best way to do it. You friend should simply take some old system that isn't in use anymore and load FreeBSD on it along with all the trimmings needed to make the system into a mailserver, then set up a test Outlook client and demonstrate the whole thing to his boss. I mean, if your friend doesen't even know whether he wants to use Sendmail or Postfix that's a giant red flag to me that he has never set up such a mailserver. Why should his boss let him turn the company e-mail system into a classroom? Think of all the time your friend is wasting running around trying to prove a system that other people set up for other mailsystems is better - he could have probably gotten a quarter of the work done of putting together a FreeBSD demo by now. Less talk and more work is what is prescribed here. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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