How funny, I had the same problem. Except it took two MAJOR crashes of
Exchange to convince the Execs to get off Exchange and onto POP.
Things you will loose by not running exchange...
1) Global Address List
This does not exist on POP/IMAP servers, but you can install LDAP
http://www.openldap.org/
2) Free/Busy information
This was a function of the exchange server checking the users calendar
in their mailbox (you know so you can see if people are available).
Sorry you can't get this, outlook will let you publish this to a web
page.
3) Store Users Mail on the Mail Server.....
I do not recommend doing this. This makes you dependant on the mail
server, just like you were dependant on the Exchange server. I would
suggest that you just use Pop3, put your users .pst file on their
harddrive, and then schedule a batch file to copy the .pst to the fileserver
once a week for a backup. This way if you need to you can swap out a
mail server and your users won't even know.
I was having problems with exchange for two reasons 1) average mailbox size
was huge (I know you can limit this but try telling your CEO he can't have
all his e-mail in his inbox), 2) the large volume of mail traffic. (We are
processing over 10,000 e-mails per day)
You will be happy with a un*x solution, if you traffic is large you might
want to have one incoming POP box, and one outgoing SMTP box, but you should
be fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: Morten Ranheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 9:42 AM
Subject: Some questions..(Micorsoft/qmail)
Hi all!
I'm new to this list and I'm in a hurry to get a new fully functional
e-mail server up and running. At work we've had a major server crash due
to the fact we are using exchange and NT. I told the management about
linux and qmail, and they wan't to switch provided that it supports the
following facilites:
1. Is qmail "compatible" with Outlook 2000 (Contactcs/Calender/etc)?
2. Can it store all users e-mails on the linux server?
3. What do I need and how should I approach this?
My knowledge about linux is fairly good, but I have never set up a linux
mail server, so any help is deeply appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Morten Ranheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
