Re: [WinMac] Email Choices

Tim Scoff(casper[at]nb.net)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 06:21:25 -0500

        Exchange Server is not for the faint of heart. It has a ton
of features and requires a ton of support also. If you install it
you will be spending a lot of time administering it.

> Well Dan,
> I'm tickling my keyboard and need help in choosing an email server/software
> solution. I work at a newspaper as well as going to school to get my MCSE.
> Four hours at the paper and five hours at school.
>
> The paper has 200 users split 50/50 between PC's and macs. Novell and PC's
> are on the business side and editorial, classified and production use macs.
> Currently only about 80 of them have email and I was asked about bringing
> the rest on board. We have several AppleShare servers, one of which handles
> email for PC's and macs, as well as an FTP site. The server is an 8500/200
> with 64 megs of RAM.
>
> The fellow I work with is a CNE and when he heard the request, instantly
> went into a rant about how unstable macs and IP6 is for email and that NT
> and Exchange would be a better solution. I don't really care about which to
> use since using Exchange would be cool for me since I'm still a newbe to the
> NT world and this would give me a chance to use some of my new knowledge.
>
> Now, the rub is money (isn't it always.) We already have NT and Exchange and
> we build PC hardware (all Intel stuff so it's HCL compliant) in house. The
> catch is, we only have 25 CAL's for Exchange and the paper doesn't want to
> spend any money if at all possible. My thinking is IP6 and email seem to
> work well, how about just adding the users and Bob's your uncle. Am I
> sailing into disaster thinking I can do this? Should I also consider adding
> more RAM to the server? Should I tell the paper to go the NT route and suck
> up whatever costs that that will incur? What are your thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Grant
>
> A Macuser for more years than I care to remember and
> an MCP.
>
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