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by srikrishna 1 view

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Hi Frieds,
Well My company is going to have a inhouse Server soon..The company is planing to host all its mail domains on a single machine..currently we have 8 mail domains.Could you please suggest whether i can go with Microsoft Exchange server or any other good servers are available in the market..If any of the Guru's can explain me the pro's n cons it'd be of a grt help to me...
Thx in Advance

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by erikdr

If you're solely talking about e-mail, both Exchange and Lotus are usually overkill. Simple standards-based servers could do well, and host as many domains and client types (using POP/IMAP) as you like.
In that market, there are quite a few. The archetypal are Sun (ex-NetScape) and its descendant Novell NetMail, but with tools like Pegasus, Eudora (serverversions, not readers) etc. you could as well have a great value for money!

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by gigelul

Take in consideration a Linux server - Slackware:
- squid - proxy
- Apache - web server
- qmail - mail server
- spamassassin - antispam
- clamav - antivirus
- squirrelmail - webmail (multi virtual domains)
- firewall
- etc.
Many plugins and options are available.

No money!

by srikrishna

Thx a lot for the replies..I love to go for Linux but I am looking for Windows based SW as our People wants Windows based for diff reasons...

by cpuboy456

I would agree with IMAIL it is very easy to use and administer to. Specially if you have only 8 domains, all the other Mail server software would be overkill.

by whatme?

Take a look at Kerio. You can add AD extensions so that when you add a user to W2-3K, they are added to Kerio mail. I looked seriously at Exchange, and have it, but dumped it. It is too tied in to W2-3. Kerio works great as a standalone, handles multiple domains, and even better if you want to implement it at several sites, forwarding to a main server. All your users will think...what fast service. I tried the "free" stuff", tried Linux etc but we just don't have the qualified staff to manage it.

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