Hi,
Thank you for the detailed analysis - We have been considering SmarterMail
as a migration path from IMail but will probably "go slow" until they grow
up a bit more.
How about open source? I seem to recall there are a few open source mail
servers based on decent code (ASP.NET) that run on Windows servers.
The core of Novell netmail has been release to open source
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2005/02/pr05014.html and is now
being delevoped as the HULA mail server. However, it's not on a Windows
server, it will run on Linux. It's got a decent webinterface and also
supports calendaring. Synchronisation with PDA etc. is allready possible but
is being further developed as well.
Development of the HULA mailserver is going mucht faster that Novell had
expected, they have decided to discontinue development of the netmail server
as HULA will have overtaken it in just one year. Only the core was realse to
open sorce but that did not stop people from developing the bells and
whissels around it. :-)
They have most things down pat, one problem they were running into a while
ago with the user database it that Microsoft had "improved" it's version of
LDAP in the Active Directory so it would not work in a normal LDAP way.
Right now I'm not thinking about it yet but in the near future...... Also
the RedHat Enterprise server, which comes with a pricetag, now has it's
exact freeware copy http://www.centos.org/ (without the RH logo's). So a
rock stable Linux server platform is now also available for free.
A quote:
At the same time, the new Hula project brings the mail and calendaring
technology of the Novell NetMail product to the open source realm. Hula is
positioned to be to collaboration what Apache is to Web serving.
Performance:
It scales. Hula can scale up to 200,000 registered users on a single
properly configured server, with 50,000 users simultaneously accessing the
system.
Groetjes,
Bonno Bloksma
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