Time to switch

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 10, Net Llama! managed to emit:
> 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).

There is also Volution Messaging Server from Caldera
(http://www.caldera.com/products/volutionmsg/).

Kurt
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