From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Oct 27 10: 1:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bamf.demon.co.uk (bamf.demon.co.uk [158.152.173.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0466C14A24 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rich@dynamite.org) Received: from clyde (unverified [192.168.1.2]) by clyde.chugaboom.net (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:22:19 +0100 Message-ID: From: "Rich Wood" Organization: dynamite.org To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 18:22:19 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Need anti-exchange ammunition Reply-To: rich@dynamite.org References: <199910250357.NAA03173@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Oct 99, at 10:06, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hmm. If you have a sizeable amount of users (ie 40+ users) Exchange > tends to gets its knickers in a twist approx every 1.5 months. At > which time you have to *REINSTALL* the software + patches; that's > what I seem to observe with a friend handling MS Support for a company > here in Auckland. Not wanting to defend MS too much, but if your 40 user Exchange installation needs reinstalling every 6 weeks, you need a better administrator. My 2 server (one for users, one for external connectors) 1500 account setup has been fault-free for the last year or more, except for the time someone let it run out of disk space whilst I was on holiday. However, Exchange is an absolute pain to secure, and will quite happily relay mail unless you chant the appropriate incantations. If you need the group-scheduling facilities, you could do worse than use Exchange. If you don't need them, don't go anywhere near it. Rich -- rich@dynamite.org rich@FreeBSD.org.uk If that's what they call normal, I'd rather be insane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message