[WinMac] Re: Email Choices - Hardware & software

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:05:33 -0500

        Curtis nailed the software issue against using a Mac-based enterprise
solution; and I still stand on my hardware concerns about the G3's being
unsuitable for 24/7 duty.

        I guess you could say that OS-X and ASIP represent the "Peter Principle:"
Promotion (of the Mac platform) to the level of its incompetency.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 08:43 AM 3/23/99 -0500, Curtis wrote:
>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/>
>
>--
>Curtis Wilcox cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
>Eastman School of Music x41160

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