Re: [TCLUG:14915] Re: Help! Help! Save me from M$ Exchange!

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

Kelly Black wrote:
> I have been given a week to come up with hard evidence that HP's
> OpenMail would not be the kiss of death for the company I work for.
> The only other alternative they will consider is Exchange (shudder).
> In order to allow our company to go with OpenMail instead of exchange
> would be some real life experiences anyone out there might have had
> with OpenMail in a company of our size.

	On a similar Exchange horror story note...

	Every company I know that has an Exchange server has horrible
problems with volume.  Recently, a friend who works at Net Perceptions,
which produces a 'customized spam' product used their Exchange e-mail
server to test it, and crashed it badly.

	Visi, being an ISP, has a pretty huge volume of e-mail going
through their systems.  I've only once or twice in my 2-3 years of being
their customer have ever seen their e-mail server crash, and I think
both times were hardware related.

	At the company I currently work for, we have our e-mail server
seemingly crash about once every two months.  The crash usually seems
volume related.

	I can't say anything positive or negative about OpenMail because
I don't know anybody who uses it, and have never used it myself.

	I can tell you that 'qmail' is incredibly light and fast, and
very secure.  :-) It's what I use to run all my e-mail.  I don't have
much volume, but I know people who've ran ISP e-mail servers off of
486's using it.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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