Time to switch

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Scribbling feverishly on April 10, Wil McGilvery managed to emit:
>
> If Exchange is just being used as a mail server, I believe it is easy
> to replace with other Sendmail, PostFix, Exim, or whatever.
> Otherwise, I'm not sure what you'd use -- I don't know what Exchange
> does, frankly, so I'm not in a position to offer an informed opinion.

What Exchange does, and what its supposed to do are up for wild
speculation.  Exchange is supposed to send/receive mail (as all of the
MTA's you mentioned do quite well).  Its also suppposed to allow for
collaboration on all the other bloated features that M$-Outlook has
(calenders etc).
Now, if no one cares about those features, or doesn't mind getting them
from a different source (Linux has alot of nifty calender tools, and other
assorted collaborative tools) then ditching Exchange is easy.  If everyone
wants to continue to use Outlook for calenders and the like, then you'll
prolly need to look into something like Volution or HP's UnixMail (i think
that's what they called it).

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