Re: Opinions on Exchange options

redhat wrote:

First - forgive the length of this post...I am going to throw this out
there for whomever wants to respond. I have an Exchange 5.5 server
which is my PDC (primary authentication and email - internal only)
running on server 2000. Last year it crashed because it mysteriously
forgot that it was the PDC and I had to rebuild it from scratch. Now, I
am having serious issues with Exchange mail and am getting tired of it. I am required to offer calendaring, shared contacts, yadda, yadda,
yadda. I have looked at SuSE's offering and have also looked into a
product called bynari. Both seem to offer the right stuff - at a hefty
price - comparable to M$. I don't mind the price but I want to be sure
that in another year I am not back in the same position with problem on
a different platform. I don't have anyone on staff that can set up
Sendmail and I don't have the time to learn it. I need something that
is intuitive enough to set up and administer. If you are familiar with
either of these products I would appreciate pros and cons. If you have
a different product that does not require 3 brains to setup and
administer I would appreciate that as well.
thanks,
DF

SME server is easy to setup and can handle email, pdc, and many other services. It does not have calendaring built in, but there are many groupware web apps that could be used. It might be worth investigating. You can find it at contribs.org