I currently admin a qmail server that is accessed POP3. Although I am irritated at the host and do not recommend that for various reasons (not my decision), I do think that from what I read online, qmail is a good app to run. I will probably lobby for that if I can convince them to move back in-house.
Otherwise I would also recommend Thunderbird email client. It is great and there should be very little missing that you can't find a workaround for. D/L and install it concurrently with the outlook, then when you run it you can import the pst files and it will be up and running with no loss of emails. Also I have a user that is swamped with spam so I am going to be trying the spam filter functions and showing her how to use that asap. Pretty cool for a client to have since so many of the winderz apps seem to be malware magnets. Marc On 8/15/06, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Criteria for evaluation, in no particular order: -- full collaboration, including calendaring, tasks, contacts, email, etc. All the stuff that Exchange does. Kerio does that part pretty well. -- cheap. Free is better, but my school system is not skilled in Linux sysadmin, except for one sharp individual (not me). MS Exchange with the education discounts was close to the cheapest option, by the way. -- integration with all PDAs, like CrackBerries, Q, Treo, Win devices. Kerio is a little weak here with BB, but does integrate with the others. -- works with a heavily Apple environment. Yes, the techs who administer the Apple servers can do a little UNIX-like stuff, but we're really focused on desk side support. You really only get the full experience with Exchange through the web if you run Internet Explorer, and that is not supported by Microsoft for Apples machines anymore. Even with the relative immunity of Apple machines to spy ware and viruses, the lack of browser support gave me pause. -- Not too demanding on client hardware. Zimbra works beautifully if you're running a new machine, but we have Apple machines that are 15 years old still providing good service. Yes, 15 years old. BenGay is a major consumable for these machines. -- let's users choose their client. We have some running POP clients, others MAPI, others IMAP. Some use Outlook, others just web access, other Entourage. Haven't tried it with Thunderbird, but I'd bet Kerio does fine. When I was doing the evaluation, I worked directly with the software developers, or as close as I could get -- pre-sales MS support was the farthest I was away from coders. This wasn't the most analytical evaluation, and the Apple machines are a special factor, but we did the best we could. In the end, price vs. performance vs. support led us. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil L. Little Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 2:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [TriLUG] I see an exchange server in my future Sorry to have taken solong to reply... Jim, So in the evaluation that you performed for your school district what were the criteria that involved you keeping the Kerio MailServer? I havent looked at Kerio yet but does that include the calender function? Thats the biggie here and why its so hard to get these folks to even consider being weanned off of Outlook. Neil Little, WA4AZL JARS Forever!! ...er TRILUG Too! > I just performed an evaluation for my school district, looking at Kerio > MailServer (the incumbent and winner), MS Exchange, CommuniGate, Gordano, > Zimbra Collaboration Suite, OpenXchange and one other. I've also used > GroupWise, which is pretty good. Our issues were performance, client > hardware requirements, integration with PDAs and support for the many > Apple > machines in use. Straight Outlook integration is easy with most of these, > and Kerio MailServer 6.2 works well, is cheap, supports many OS's. Kerio > has a few problems, but its cheapness overcomes them. Hope this helps! > > Regards, Jim -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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