Re: Mail server software (Was Re: FYI -- fake email abuse warning)

2009-11-13 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 13 Nov 2009 at 12:16, John Aldrich wrote: It appears that with Icewarp you have to buy each part individually. If you want to use Outlook, you have to buy a plugin for that. If you want A/D connection, there's a plugin to buy for that. At least it appears that way. With Kerio, there are

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-21 Thread Jonathan Link
[mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 8:46 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mail server software You can have additional DCs but SBS\EBS has to hold all the FSMO roles… Shook *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] *Sent

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2009-08-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Jim Majorowiczjmajorow...@gmail.com wrote: Exchange can be backed up natively from NTBackup quite nicely ... Curious, as I haven't looked into this yet: What about Server 2008 and later? NTBACKUP has gone away. Are the replacements worth a damn? I know the

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-20 Thread John Aldrich
? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Your problem, John, is you've discounted, arguably, the best product on the market based on 10 year old technology

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2009-08-20 Thread Cor Hazen
EBS: http://www.microsoft.com/ebs/en/us/default.aspx From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 20 August 2009 14:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software EBS? Not familiar with that term. Can you explain? Still... considering the cost

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2009-08-20 Thread John Cook
Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server

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2009-08-20 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Essential Business Server which is Microsoft's new-ish mid-market solution similar to SBS for small companies. TVK From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software EBS? Not familiar

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2009-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software The new server backup utility BLOWS DONKEYS! You can't backup to a UNC path - you can backup to a USB drive (I'm already doing this with NT Backup) but that doesn't help me with it when it's running in a VM. John W. Cook Systems Administrator

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2009-08-20 Thread Richard Stovall
The key may be R2 vs 'original' Server 2008. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Huh? Win2k8 R2 Windows Backup is better because it goes back to granular level

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2009-08-20 Thread John Cook
Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Ken Schaefer To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Aug 20 11:47:42 2009 Subject: RE: Mail server software Huh? [cid:image001.png@01CA21F0.9BB553A0] Win2k8 R2 Windows Backup is better

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2009-08-20 Thread Jonathan Link
: RE: Mail server software The new server backup utility BLOWS DONKEYS! You can't backup to a UNC path - you can backup to a USB drive (I'm already doing this with NT Backup) but that doesn't help me with it when it's running in a VM. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership

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2009-08-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:28 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: The new server backup utility BLOWS DONKEYS! You can't backup to a UNC path ... Sounds like it's just like Vista, then. The one that came with Vista: You can't even select/exclude individual files or folders. It's all

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-20 Thread Terry Dickson
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software The new server backup utility BLOWS DONKEYS! You can't backup to a UNC path - you can backup to a USB drive (I'm already doing this with NT Backup) but that doesn't help me with it when it's running in a VM. John W. Cook Systems Administrator

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2009-08-20 Thread Jon Harris
I have the native backup in 2008 doing live backups of 6 VM's backups take about 9 to 10 hours and are getting something like 760GB of data to a Lacie 1TB hard drive. Restores are more of a challenge but I am still trying to learn the new way to do things on that server as far as backup. Jon On

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2009-08-20 Thread Jon Harris
System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mail server software Huh? Win2k8 R2 Windows Backup is better because it goes back to granular level backup (not just a whole volume at a time) -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 9

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2009-08-20 Thread Richard Stovall
-server-back up-features-in-windows-server-2008-r2.html From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software Nope it is there in original 2008 as well. Jon On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM

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2009-08-20 Thread John Cook
: Thu Aug 20 13:41:39 2009 Subject: Re: Mail server software Nope it is there in original 2008 as well. Jon On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.commailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote: The key may be R2 vsoriginal��� Server 2008. From

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-20 Thread Jon Harris
System Admin Issues *Sent*: Thu Aug 20 13:41:39 2009 *Subject*: Re: Mail server software Nope it is there in original 2008 as well. Jon On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote: The key may be R2 vÿÿâÿ˜originaÿÿ€™ Server 2008. *From

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2009-08-20 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Outlook 2010 rocks though! :) Getting Calendar reminders from multiple Exchange mailboxes is just plain awesome!!! Tim From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Essential Business

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2009-08-19 Thread Jim Majorowicz
Yes you do. It's called Deleted Items Retention. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Yes, but you don't have any way to restore *just one message

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2009-08-19 Thread Sam Cayze
Or BackupExec can now do this. (Say it was purged from deleted items). -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Yes you do. It's called Deleted Items

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2009-08-19 Thread Jim Majorowicz
priced that as a solution? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software I agree, I did not articulate my requirements very well. However, I ass-u-med that any admin in their right

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2009-08-19 Thread Jim Majorowicz
And I didn't even mention that Exchange 2010 doesn't even need OUTLOOK! From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Your problem, John, is you've discounted, arguably, the best

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-18 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Ben, while I understand what you're saying, the fact is that: --- More and more enterprise software is headed in this direction of black-box composition --- We don't actually own the software. We own a license to use it --- There are less people that need/want to get into the guts, and more

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-18 Thread John Cook
Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: If they choose to ignor what I instruct them to do how is that not stupid? If it's

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2009-08-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, John Cookjohn.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I'm sure you've gone on a rant once or twice about how stupid someone was for doing something they know better than to do. Er. Um. Who me? ;-) Okay, guilty as charged. I don't think being able to restore any (as in

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2009-08-18 Thread Erik Goldoff
these last couple of years ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software I take the time to teach and empower

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2009-08-18 Thread John Cook
For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tue Aug 18 11:33:38 2009 Subject: RE: Mail server software ...I take the time to teach and empower my

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2009-08-18 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
of adhering to the exception rules that were applied. TVK From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Comparing Exchange today (especially vNext) to 5.5 is a really inappropriate comparison

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2009-08-18 Thread David Lum
keeping things going :) Dave jack of all trades, master of zilch Lum From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Agreed. Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2007 are completely different beasts

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2009-08-17 Thread N Parr
Used Mdaemon in the past and was happy with in. Good spam filtering also. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mail server software If you don't want to pay the

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2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
Just curious - why not Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: John Aldrich

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2009-08-17 Thread Terry Dickson
I used Icewarp in the past, the features were not as good as Exchange. However basically we stopped using it several years ago. We still have an icewarp server but that is for sending out mail from systems. I found the software very stable, in the years we used it we never had any problems

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2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Just curious - why not Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership

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2009-08-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You're already looking at Kerio, so I would also recommend SmarterMail... http://www.smartertools.com/SmarterMail/Features/Windows-Mail-Server-Software-Webmail-Exchange-Alternative.aspx -ASB On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: If you don’t

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2009-08-17 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
How about Scalix? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software You're already looking at Kerio, so I would also recommend SmarterMail... http://www.smartertools.com/SmarterMail

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2009-08-17 Thread Brian Desmond
Subject: RE: Mail server software Sorry hit the send too quick. Is Exchange so expensive it isn't worth getting the extra features or is yours just a small shop? Hosted Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Just curious - why not Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Sorry hit the send too quick. Is Exchange so expensive it isn't worth getting the extra features or is yours just a small shop? Hosted Exchange? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE

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2009-08-17 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
Subject: RE: Mail server software Used Mdaemon in the past and was happy with in. Good spam filtering also. -- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:54 AM

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2009-08-17 Thread Mike Gill
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/outlook_sync.html Sounds like this does everything you asked for except for the AD integration. But depending on a couple things that may not matter with this implementation. -- Mike Gill From: John Aldrich

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
and windows logon. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software You're already looking at Kerio, so I would also recommend SmarterMail... http://www.smartertools.com

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Price, mainly... and some of the problems

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2009-08-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
] *Sent:* Monday, August 17, 2009 12:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mail server software Just curious – why not Exchange? *John W. Cook* *Systems Administrator* *Partnership For Strong Families* *315 SE 2nd Ave* *Gainesville, Fl 32601* *Office (352) 393-2741 x320

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/outlook_sync.html Sounds like this does everything you asked for except for the AD integration. But depending on a couple things that may not matter with this implementation. -- Mike Gill From

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2009-08-17 Thread Tom Miller
: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:41 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Mail server software Price, mainly… and some of the problems Exchange has, like the Jet database (AIUI, they still have not done away with the Jet database!) and all the proprietary technology behind it. One of the features I

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Desmond
, 2009 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Price, mainly... and some of the problems Exchange has, like the Jet database (AIUI, they still have not done away with the Jet database!) and all the proprietary technology behind it. One of the features I like about some

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: What’s the problem with the database engine? There’s been a massive amount of engineering work in that space – I don’t expect it’s going anywhere. I can't speak for the OP... but the fact that the Exchange IS is a

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software What's the problem with the database engine? There's been a massive amount of engineering work in that space - I don't expect it's going

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2009-08-17 Thread Mike Gill
Sorry, I didn't read that part of your mind. I see no in-house as you quoted. :\ -- Mike Gill From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Did you miss the part about

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: What's the problem with the database engine? There's been a massive amount of engineering work

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2009-08-17 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I'm in the same boat. I've been evaluating SmarterMail and Mailenable (http://www.mailenable.com/). Both seem capable (but I don’t have the AD requirement - although Mailenable claims to do it.) We're moving from an old version of IMail. So far I like the interface for SmarterMail better but

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2009-08-17 Thread Richard Stovall
...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Exactly! That's one of my concerns... Antivirus has to be told to overlook certain directories and you have to have an exchange-aware antivirus or buy a special plugin

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Gene Giannamore
Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: What's the problem with the database engine? There's been

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2009-08-17 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
Problem may start with 1 gb storage. It's llke Titanik - single and big I prefer OE on XP and specially Win Mail on Vista - each message in separate .eml file Anatoly Podgoretsky http://www.podgoretsky.com - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Sorry, I didn't read that part of your mind. I see no in-house as you quoted. :\ -- Mike Gill From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday

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2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Exactly! That's one of my concerns... Antivirus has to be told to overlook certain directories and you have to have an exchange-aware antivirus or buy a special plugin for the antivirus to allow it to scan the Exchange DB. AFAIK, most

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:42 PM, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Antivirus has to be told to overlook certain directories and you have to have an exchange-aware antivirus or buy a special plugin for the antivirus to allow it to scan the Exchange DB. That's going to be true

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2009-08-17 Thread Bryan Garmon
Have you looked into Microsoft's hosted services model? All the benefits of Exchange without having to maintain the thing. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: If you don’t want to pay the cost of Exchange, what software would you get that has pretty

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2009-08-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Zimbra, OSER and Scalix are the usual suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:53, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: If you don’t want to pay the cost of Exchange, what software would you get that has pretty much the same functionality as Exchange, including the following: 1) 

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2009-08-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Sorry - meant to say they are the usual Open Source suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:59, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Zimbra, OSER and Scalix are the usual suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:53, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: If you don’t want to pay the cost

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2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
Sorry... I neglected to mention, we're wanting to bring email in-house so we *don't* have hosted email. :-) -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software Have

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Not to discount what you know about Exchange but... 1. I don't think any DB should be scanned by an AV program that doesn't recognize

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2009-08-17 Thread Jonathan Link
- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Not to discount what you know about Exchange but... 1. I don't think any DB should be scanned by an AV program that doesn't recognize

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2009-08-17 Thread John Bowles
Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software Sorry - meant to say they are the usual Open Source suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:59, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Zimbra, OSER and Scalix are the usual suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:53, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Yes, but you don't have any way to restore *just one message* with NTBackup. :-) Agree that I should have been a bit more specific... If you want to be able to back up mailbox

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2009-08-17 Thread David Lum
John, this post is a peach!!! -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Anyone in their right mind would host any business centric email on a platform outside

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2009-08-17 Thread Kurt Buff
:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software Sorry - meant to say they are the usual Open Source suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:59, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Zimbra, OSER and Scalix are the usual suspects. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:53, John

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Not to discount what you know about Exchange but... 1. I don't think any DB should be scanned by an AV program that doesn't recognize

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2009-08-17 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Yes, but you don't have any way to restore *just one message* with NTBackup. :-) Agree that I should have been a bit more specific... If you want to be able to back up mailbox by mailbox, etc. you have to pay to play with Exchange. Other email

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Schorr
17, 2009 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software Problem may start with 1 gb storage. It's llke Titanik - single and big I prefer OE on XP and specially Win Mail on Vista - each message in separate .eml file Anatoly Podgoretsky http://www.podgoretsky.com

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Schorr
: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Yes, but you don't have any way to restore *just one message* with NTBackup. :-) Agree that I should have been a bit more specific... If you want

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM, John Bowles john.bow...@wlkmmas.org wrote: Anyone in their right mind would host any business centric email on a platform outside of Exchange, Lotus or Sendmail is just asking for trouble. That much resistance to change is not a healthy attitude for any

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: It's called Dumpster always on and restore deleted items in OWA and if they need an email they deleted past the retention window then it falls under the I can't save you from your own stupidity heading. Meanwhile, another

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2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Aug 17 18:05:24 2009 Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:16 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: It's called

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2009-08-17 Thread Brian Desmond
...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software I agree, I did not articulate my requirements very well. However, I ass-u-med that any admin in their right mind would want to be able to back up their mail server. Maybe it's just me??? Same

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2009-08-17 Thread John Gwinner
Exchange in a Cloud? == John == From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Comparing Exchange today (especially vNext) to 5.5 is a really inappropriate comparison. The product

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2009-08-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Honestly, this wasn’t a ‘bug’ that needed fixing, and I don’t think I would have had a problem doing it, but they had no problem with doing this, and he was on the phone for a lot longer than I would think the cost of the onetime critical ticket

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:20 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Sure, I get the point ... I'm not sure you do... ... it all boils down to storage. Or design. The inability to easily restore a single mailbox is not a good thing. Maybe there are tech trade-offs that make that

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2009-08-17 Thread John Cook
Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Aug 17 20:09:52 2009 Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17

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2009-08-17 Thread Brian Desmond
and label it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 7:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software I continuously coach users on filing anything

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2009-08-17 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Ultimately, it's a factor of single-instance storage. The various add-on products that facilitate the restore of a single mailbox, by and large, undo single-instance storage. -ASB On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to easily restore a

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2009-08-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brian Desmondbr...@briandesmond.com wrote: What's the problem with the database engine? There's been a massive amount of engineering work in that space - I don't expect it's going anywhere. I can't speak

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2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hmm - do you use a DBMS (like SQL Server or Oracle) as well? Actually, not really. We're small. (There's a couple MSDE instances, and a Firebird instance, all in support of various applications, but they're more

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Andrew S. Bakerasbz...@gmail.com wrote: Ultimately, it's a factor of single-instance storage. It seems to me that, in the general case, it should be possible to have both SIS and individual element restores. Assume SIS is implemented as a reference counted

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Sam Cayze
-Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mail server software Hmm - do you use a DBMS (like SQL Server or Oracle) as well? Most of those are binary blobs. Or do you prefer a DBMS that stores

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: If they choose to ignor what I instruct them to do how is that not stupid? If it's simply a question of not following instructions, perhaps. I may have been taking your comments in broader context than you intended. This

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Desmond
- http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10

Re: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: The fact that you can't edit an ESE database is _good_. On this, we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm of the opinion that if I own something, I should be able to do anything I want with it, including break it. I

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
-Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Hmm - do you use a DBMS (like SQL Server or Oracle) as well? Actually, not really. We're small. (There's

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mail server software On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: The fact that you can't edit an ESE database is _good_. On this, we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm of the opinion that if I own something, I