Help me avoid Exchange

[Bill McGonigle]

On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:55, Ben Scott wrote:

>   This may have changed in Exchange 2003, but I don't think it has.

Somebody told me Exchange 2K3 was all WebDAV, Kerberos, and LDAP.  They 
may have been dreaming.

I've seen setups where you put a postfix server in front of Exchange 
and cc: a copy of all the mail to an IMAP server (UWash in this case, 
but Cyrus or Dovecot would be more appropriate today) for when the 
Exchange server goes down.

I've found Cyrus to be almost manageable after you figure out the small 
undocumented bag of tricks necessary to, say, rebuild a mailbox from 
message files.  It suffers from the typical need to go to the mailing 
list for very pedestrian admin tasks.  But if you need something like 
MURDER there's not much competition other than Dartmouth's BlitzMail in 
the open source space and that has its own set of unique issues.

Oh, and have a look at the Fedora SPEC file - it has the large 
collection of essential community patches needed to run a decent mail 
server.  That CMU won't accept these into the mainline is another 
problem.

Oh, and if anyone needs an RPM for Cyrus with heavy logging of user 
activity and expunges ("there's something wrong with the mail server - 
it _couldn't_ have been Blackberry who just deleted my Inbox") I have 
one available.

-Bill

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