[dba-Tech] looking for an alternative to Exchange

Hi Mark

Had this discussion with a client, and a complaint was that if you start typing a mail but get interrupted, the session will time out and the draft is lost.
Also, some sort of alternative backup is needed; for business use, don't ever trust a single backup method.

But the deal of Google is hard to beat.

/gustav

>>> marklbreen at gmail.com 07-04-2009 20:02 >>>
Hello John,

I switched a 10 user site to Google App two and a half years ago.  Currently
they have about 50 users, approx 10 are intensive users.

It is not onsite, but the benefits of it are worth looking at

no backups
no av
no spyware
no spam
completely free
almost 100% up time in two years
always fast
plenty of storage

I am still looking for a downside.

If users demand to use outlook, you can give them pop3 access, but the web
based interface is really the way to go.

You can run the google apps mail, but leave the website hosted where it is.

I really like this product.

Mark



2009/4/7 John Bartow <john at winhaven.net>

> To put it a simply as I can. I'm looking for an email server system that
> can
> handle incoming/outgoing internet email addresses but can also redirect the
> email sent to inter-office addresses so that they don't need to leave the
> network. Open source (or low cost) for Windows Server 20003/2008 would be
> great.