Chris - Thanks for your help! I greatly appreciate it.
Onwards to a new bold frontier. Good luck working around your dog's schedule! Sincerely, Mike Conner Chris Scharff wrote: > Um well, that really depends on what you need mail to do. > > On the light end... iMail from IPSwitch is an appropriate solution for some. > Mercury mail has its fans and I'd be using mailsite for one of my personal > domains if they'd give me a free copy. > > On the collaborative end... We used Exchange 5.5 with some success at my > last gig for fewer than 20 users. I don't really know that much about it, > but they seemed to like it. It's also running on my home server at the > moment for my wife, son and dog. Damn dog has a lot of calendar data though. > > Chris > -- > Chris Scharff > Senior Sales Engineer > MessageOne > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 4:07 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 > > Pro compatibility) > > > > > > Chris - > > > > Thanks for the input. The search was most informative and it > > is nice to know that I am not the only schmuck out there > > wanting to try this. > > > > One more question if I may. My workgroup is probably never > > going to exceed 20 computers. If this doesn't work, what do > > you suggest that I move to? > > > > Thanks again for the help! > > > > Sincerely, > > Mike Conner > > > > Chris Scharff wrote: > > > > > Um... Well, erm... Will it transfer? Yes. Is it supported? No.[1] > > > > > > Do a search at www.deja.com for WGPO and Windows 2000 and you might > > > find some comments on the subject from the Outlook MVPs. > > I've not kept > > > up on their research in this area as WGPO and Outlook isn't really > > > something I use. > > > > > > [1] Not supported on W2K and no longer supported in general. > > > > > > Chris > > > -- > > > Chris Scharff > > > Senior Sales Engineer > > > MessageOne > > > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:38 PM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 Pro > > > > compatibility) > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin - > > > > > > > > Thanks for the response. You are probably right and we > > probably are > > > > using Microsoft Mail. I'm afraid that I am ignorant > > enough to not > > > > know the difference. I was under the impression that > > this was some > > > > sort of version of Exchange 5.0, but I may be wrong. > > > > > > > > Any idea if this will transfer to Windows 2000 pro? If > > not, what do > > > > you recommend that I look at for upgrading the system? > > We could all > > > > go to external e-mail accounts, but I would prefer to keep our > > > > inter-office mail internal if there is a simple way to do it. > > > > > > > > Again, thanks for your help. > > > > > > > > Martin Blackstone wrote: > > > > > > > > > Are you sure you are not using Microsoft Mail? > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:10 PM > > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > Subject: Microsoft Exchange 5.0 Questions (Windows 2000 Pro > > > > > compatibility) > > > > > > > > > > I am fairly new to the world of Exchange and my > > business is simply > > > > > using the version of Exchange that was buried on the > > > > Win98se disk. We > > > > > are really complicated here: We set up a Post Office on the > > > > > server and we all send messages to each other and > > transfer files > > > > > via attachment. It is simple, but for the 12 or so > > folks that we > > > > > have here, it works great. > > > > > > > > > > The problem is that we are looking to upgrade our server > > > > and are going > > > > > to go with Windows 2000 Pro for the operating system. My > > > > question is > > > > > this: > > > > > > > > > > Can you simply install the Exchange 5.0 that came on the > > > > Win98se disks > > > > > onto a Windows 2000 Pro platform and use our post office as > > > > we have in > > > > > the past, or are we going to have to purchase a different > > > > version of > > > > > Exchange Server? > > > > > > > > > > Any help that anyone can provide would be greatly > > > > appreciated. 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