Help me avoid Exchange

[Thomas Charron]

On 12/29/05, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/29/05, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> g) If the load issue is enough to justify a separate Exchange server,
> >> then add another Windows Server licensing cost.
> >   Unless, of course, someone has an MSDN subscription..
>   I'm not sure, but I think the MSDN license does not permit
> production use of server products.


    Production use of supporting the development department falls under the
licence.  At least it did, at some point in the life of that ever changing
MSDN licence.  Aka, production email of the development departments email is
still development work.


> >> h) Depending on the version of Exchange, the default for converting
> MAPI
> >> messages to MIME format is HTML. While this can be changed on a
> >> user-by-user basis, if your clients don't do HTML, then they won't be
> >> able to read MAPI messages.
> >   ....  *blink*  I missed some contextual data here.  If you're using
> IMAP
> > and SMTP, what's MAPI have to do with anything?
>   The term "MAPI" is heavily overloaded.  There are two client APIs
> called "MAPI", there's the so-called "MAPI wire protocol" used to
> communicate between Exchange and Outlook, and there's the message
> format called "MAPI".  I believe the OP is talking about the last one.


  *nod*  Light shines with dim bulb on my head suddenly.

> You can configure exchange
> > to do pretty much whatever you want with em anyway..
>   If you can only figure out *how*... ;-)


  Hehe.  Hence, why plopping a Linux guy in front of an exchange server
isn't always the best solution..  ;-)

>  If they already paid 100k for a god damned bus, 'becouse that bus cost
> too
> > much' isn't going to fly..  ;-)
>   Buses don't normally fly anyway.  ;-)
>

  Hey, these are engineers.  Anything can happen..  ;-)

  "Bus, 2.0...  Look, WINGS!'

  Thomas
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