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HELP: Linux replacement for MS Exchange server? $
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| Fred Hebert 2002-11-26, 6:24 pm |
| I am trying to move away from MS Exchange to an open standards based mail
system running on Linux. I have been looking for a while and seem to be
getting more confused. I want an IMAP server, with web mail, and address
book, server side mail filters and reasonable administration.
I am looking for suggestions, and possibly someone to help set it up. I am
not trying to get something for nothing, and I am willing to pay, just not
what M$ wants.
Background/Environment: I work for a small Ambulance company we have about
45 full time employees on MS Exchange now. We would like to have e-mail
for everyone, including part-time and "friends". This works out to about
150 accounts. I went to a local company and they gave me a quote for the
upgrade, and additional licenses of about $40,000. This is WAY out of my
budget.
I bought a new server ($2,500), put RedHat 7.2 on it and have been looking
at some IMAP based mail servers.
Most of the packages I have looked at looked OK but were missing important
functions or the administration was a nightmare.
So far the package I like the best (based on reading) is the "Courier mail
server". It provides, IMAP, Web Mail, mail filtering and web
administration and looks like everything works together. The problem is
that I can't get it to work. Any Courier gurus out there?
Another package that is promising is IEMS6. This was easy to install, and
seems to have most of the components, but the web mail is poor. Because it
is a commercial product ($1200) they seem unwilling to tell me how to
tinker with it.
There is a time pressure, because I am having intermittent hardware
problems with the old MS Exchange server and would really like to get off
of it before it crashes. Unfortunately I am a one man band and have very
little spare time. I would be willing to pay for help to get a new mail
system on line and get me up to speed. I am a reasonable administrator,
and a good programmer. I have been migrating away from M$ for the last 2
years. I have developed several apps and everything uses the same MySQL
database. Actually once I get rid of Exchange, I can turn off the MS
servers!
I am posting this on several groups so please reply via mail. You can post
to the group too, but I don't want to miss your reply.
Thanks,
Fred Hebert
fhebert@priority.net
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| Sybren Stuvel 2002-11-26, 8:24 pm |
| In article <ixTE9.14$Zo.1620@dfw-read.news.verio.net>, Fred Hebert wrote:
> So far the package I like the best (based on reading) is the "Courier
> mail server". It provides, IMAP, Web Mail, mail filtering and web
> administration and looks like everything works together. The problem
> is that I can't get it to work. Any Courier gurus out there?
I've installed, used and administered courier imap and webmail, combined
with a qmail MTA and maildrop filtering. Post your error messages /
problems and system specs here - without more info I can't help you.
Oh, and don't ask for email replies - ask here, get answered here. Don't
multi-post either, it's concidered a very bad thing and it's never
really needed anyway.
Sybren
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| On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:33:34 +0000, Fred Hebert wrote:
> I am trying to move away from MS Exchange to an open standards based mail
> system running on Linux. I have been looking for a while and seem to be
> getting more confused. I want an IMAP server, with web mail, and address
> book, server side mail filters and reasonable administration.
>
> I am looking for suggestions, and possibly someone to help set it up. I am
> not trying to get something for nothing, and I am willing to pay, just not
> what M$ wants.
>
>
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Congratulations! You have the guts and foresght to escape Exchange!
I have gone down this path in the past only to find that administration is
unwilling to part with some of the group features of Exchange that only a
few people use. They decided to cough up the money to continue Exchange.
Since I did not get past the research phase, I can only offer moral
support. Keep trying and searching for howtos and I am sure that you will
prevail!
On the other hand, one site you might vist is
http://www.littlebluebox.com. This may what you need and it can be a
turnkey solution.
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| Cosmo wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:33:34 +0000, Fred Hebert wrote:
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>>I am trying to move away from MS Exchange to an open standards based mail
>>system running on Linux. I have been looking for a while and seem to be
>>getting more confused. I want an IMAP server, with web mail, and address
>>book, server side mail filters and reasonable administration.
>>
>>I am looking for suggestions, and possibly someone to help set it up. I am
>>not trying to get something for nothing, and I am willing to pay, just not
>>what M$ wants.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Congratulations! You have the guts and foresght to escape Exchange!
> I have gone down this path in the past only to find that administration is
> unwilling to part with some of the group features of Exchange that only a
> few people use. They decided to cough up the money to continue Exchange.
> Since I did not get past the research phase, I can only offer moral
> support. Keep trying and searching for howtos and I am sure that you will
> prevail!
>
> On the other hand, one site you might vist is
> http://www.littlebluebox.com. This may what you need and it can be a
> turnkey solution.
Suse offer an exchange compatible email server. Ulimited client licenses
etc.
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| On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:00:26 +0000, bards wrote:
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> Suse offer an exchange compatible email server. Ulimited client licenses
> etc.
I do recall reading about that lately. There is bynari's Insight also.
However, it sounds to me like what is needed here is a simple mail
solution without all of the "group" functions that are needed in a large
organization. In my opinion, you pay the big bucks for all of the non-mail
related features. They are nice if they can be had inexpensively. M$
Exchange is anything but inexpensive.
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