Mail Server / Exchange Server

[Christian Costa]

To be honest I don't know anything about exchange. If you want an 
exchange "equivalent" you would be probably looking at Zimbra. As far as 
I know it is similar to exchange but I would recommend you to have a 
look at the website and compare it  with Exchange yourself (if you know 
enough about Exchange of course).

On 12/04/2011 15:52, Patton Echols wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, reformatted for future users, question below:
>
> On 04/11/2011 05:49 PM, Christian Costa wrote:
>>
>> On 12/04/2011 12:10, Patton Echols wrote:
>>> Greetings all:
>>>
>>> My 'buntu usage has been limited to my desktop and intranet / backup 
>>> servers.  My questions concerns the real time difficulty of 
>>> maintaining a mail server for a small organization.
>>>
>>> First, once up and running, is the routine maintenance of a mail 
>>> server particularly difficult or time consuming?
>>>
>>> Second, <noob mode=elevated> The organization's current service 
>>> limits the number of emails per day.  The service says "everyone 
>>> does it that way"  If hosting ones own service, isn't it just a 
>>> function of bandwidth?
>>>
>>> Third, If my mail server is a virtual server in a data center 
>>> somewhere, and serve mail out of it, does my server deliver mail 
>>> through some other provider's server?  Or direct to recipients?  If 
>>> the answer is "either" how does one decide?
>>>
>>> Finally, the organization's mail is currently hosted on a  exchange 
>>> server, but I am told that it is really only being used for mail.  
>>> Does anyone know what else an exchange server can do that is useful? 
>>> and or is there a particularly "fine manual" that I should read?
>>> </noob>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>>
>>> --PE
>>>
>>>
>> I'm currently using iRedmail. It's easy to set up and opensource. 
>> http://www.iredmail.org. It's sort of plug and play and you will get 
>> lots of functionality out of the box.
>>
> Do you know enough about exchange server to know how iredmail compares?
>
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