On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 11:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 13.04.2004 schrieb redhat um 17:42: > > > 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 > > Starting with Windows 2000 there are no dedicated PDC and BDCs any more > ;) > > > 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 > > Asking about SuSE products on a Fedora/Redhat mailing list is at least > curious. > > > 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 > > You was not specific enough about your needs, whether you want a system > that runs and feel for users like an Exchange server or whether they > could live with other solutions as well. On the other hand you said very > few about your skills. > > There are some products on the market - of course not all for free - > trying to bring the customer a cheaper solution, like the HP Openmail > and Samsung's OpenContact. An advanced groupware tool is > http://www.opengroupware.org/, which is open source and you would only > have to pay for the MAPI connector. > > But let me speak a word in general: that all depends on the knowledge of > the people setting up and administer the system! A server and in special > a mail server is something you have to know a lot about. The less you > know the more you will have to pay for support by foreign support crews. > That is a general rule. And a mail server is no playground, knowing few > about the "inner life" you will be lost, especial if something does not > work as you wish. In conclusion: if you do not know anything about mail > server and groupware solutions on *NIX (UNIX/Linux) systems and have no > will nor time to get deep into the things you might better stay with > (bloody, standards neglecting) Exchange. > > Alexander > The reason I posted to this list about a SuSE product was because I wanted opinions from people who were not "predisposed" to SuSE. If I wanted that I would have gone to their list. I just wanted some input from other users out there. I am a small shop of just two techs - I am the only one who knows anything about setting up servers - be it Linux or Windows. I also function as a manager and do not have time to add "one more thing" onto my incredible list of things to do. I admit, I am not a mail administrator - never have been - but I do have a problem and trust the input of this list. I read this list daily for that very reason. thanks for your input.
