Re: [WinMac] Email Choices

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:43:22 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Grant Ball wrote:

> 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?

I know almost nothing about IP6 but I know that email needs high
availability and the MacOS (pre OS X) probably isn't good enough. I know
there are all kinds of people running Mac based mail servers and there are
even free ones but as much as I like it I'm just not comfortable with
pre-OS X as a server OS. If you had some UNIX experience or some money to
spend I might suggest going that route. I'd say go with NT but not with
Exchange. There are a number of quality mail servers for NT which are
free/cheap. I like IMAP but POP is much more common and you may not need
IMAP's advantages. Figure out how much the CALs would cost and see how
they compare to the mail-only server software available. I can't recommend
a particular one but someone on another list who seems to be pretty
experienced likes VPOP3 <http://www.pscs.co.uk/>

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Curtis Wilcox              cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
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