Thanks for the feedback...
Have you had any experience with two separate companies 'merging' their separate Exchange instances?
The reason I ask is, it seems to me that in many cases, it might actually be easier to migrate a non Exchange system into an existing Exchange system, than merging two separate Exchange systems...
True or false? Or 'it depends'?
Thanks again
On 2013-12-10 9:49 AM, Dean <deano-dovecot@areyes.com> wrote:
One of the issues you'll face is that Exchange is much more than just a mail server. Once you've begun drinking the Micro$oft koolaid, it's hard to refuse the rest. It does offer a large feature set, and tight integration with a lot of other "things". That's both good and bad of course ...
While I may sound like I'm touting Exchange, I think it definitely has it's place so long as that place is well defined. If you have problems/issues that it will solve, then by all means, use it. But don't let them cram it down your throat just "because it's industry standard" or that "we can always sue Micro$oft if it fails" or any other such nonsense. Use the right tool for the job.
Personally, I use Exim4/Dovecot/Spamassassin/Roundcube for my domains and ones that I support. I have my own auto-installer that can spin up a fully-configured mail-server like that in about 15 minutes, bootable on bare-metal or on a cheap VPS. And I also recommend Exim4 (or postfix) as the front-end just as you said ...
On 12/10/2013 09:15 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
There has been some whispers about considering migrating our mail systems to Exchange Server. I want to try to nip this in the bud.
I would like to ask for some help with providing some kind of comparison of large(r) commercial companies use of email systems... specifically, those using Microsoft Exchange Server, vs those using open source Linux/Unix based systems, including even commercial *nix groupware based systems like Zimbra, as well as plain mail systems like dovecot, or cyrus or courier.
I know that many (if they are smart) Admins that do use Exchange internally will use postfix (or something else linux/unix based) in front of it as their relayhost (for both inbound and outbound), so just counting the number of publicly accessible smtp servers won't be a good gauge.
Does anyone know of any decent non-biased studies that have been done, hopefully relatively recently (last few years) that provide such a comparison?
Thanks,
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Best regards,
*/Charles/*