[PLUG] Email on Linux vs MS

[Anthony Schlemmer]

When I first read about what sort of hoops an admin had to go through to 
restore an Exchange server I was totally baffled as to why any 
organization would invest money in such a system. Email has become a 
fairly important business tool and I can't belive that any company 
wouldn't want that system running on the most reliable platform 
available i.e. Unix or Linux IMHO.

Tony  

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:48 am, alan wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, stuart mathews wrote:
> > Sorry for this vague request.  I am looking for some direction.
> >
> > An associate of mine and I are trying to help someone identify the
> > optimal path for creating a custom-built email system that will
> > forward / route lots of emails. She had assumed the solution would
> > be deployed on Microsoft technology.  As a Linux newbie, my
> > instinct is telling me the would be better served to deploy this
> > solution on Linux, but I don't know enough about email systems or
> > Linux.
> >
> >
> > Can someone give me some pointers on why Linux would be superior
> > for this?
>
> Mail under Linux is stable. Mail on Microsoft is not.
>
> I ran the perl5-porters list (over 2,000 subscribers) a couple of
> years back on Linux using a P75 with 80megs of memory.  The response
> time for the entire list was about 10 minutes for the average
> message.  (That is very fast for a mailing list that size.)
>
> The *only* reason people run Exchange is if they need the calender
> functions or they like spending money for software that corrupts
> itself.
>
> And remember, you cannot buy just one Exchange license.  You have to
> have another for the backup server.  When Exchange corrupts the user
> e-mail database (which happens about once a month or more), you
> cannot restore a single user at a time.  You have to restore to a
> seperate Exchange server and use voodoo-like import/export tricks to
> get the mail moved over.
>
> Microsoft for mail is just BAD. Plain and simple.
>
>
>
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Anthony Schlemmer
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