Greetings all. I would appreciate some of your worthy input.
I work at an admissions office in a university. I was just given the heads up that they are looking in to getting an email system solely for the use of applicants (we have Exchange on an AD Domain for internal use, but we want to keep that separate).
The idea is that the applicants are assigned an email account they can check for status of their application etc….
I was excited that they even suggested an Open Source solution, which sounds ideal, but at the same time I don’t know all that much about it.
There are plenty of people around besides myself and we will have fun making it work, but I was just wondering what some of you more experienced people think – just so I could get a few leads.
From another thread here, I already saw http://www.xmailserver.org/ so I will check into that.
This is fairly open right now – we don’t have a server or are set on an OS, but I imagine it will be Red Hat (because of it’s more mainstream appeal) or some variety of Unix (because there are a lot of Unix servers and support that we may be able to call upon in a pinch, but we would rather not).
I think their main concern was the licensing issue and that is why they are looking into non-Microsoft solutions for now.
Any ideas – I know this is fairly open ended. But I’m sure some of you would like to espouse your views on the matter, and I would appreciate the input.