Re: MS Exchange to Redhat Linux Migration

Thanks Scott. I would rather use Redhat.

We have a more or less 200 users within the company. We 
don't have plan yet to support external users. We are not 
ISP.

Is there an advantage of using Postfix rather than 
sendmail? 

Ernie

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
  Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, jessdb wrote:
>> BTW, I still need to have some insights of the 
>>following.
>> 1. What is the major diffeerence between the following 
>> (Redhat, Mandrake & Caldera)?
>
>Up front, I believe in Linux and any company that is 
>supporting the effort 
>to get it in the hands of users is great in my books. 
> That aside, I can 
>tell you from personal experience that Red Hat is the 
>best distro to go 
>with to handle any server load (ie mail).  At the ISP I 
>am running I was 
>using Mandrake and have been pulling my hair out.  I 
>install RH 7.2 and 
>everything "just works".  I think Caldera is pretty much 
>out of the 
>picture at the moment.  Mandrake is very cutting edge and 
>as a result you 
>may find you spend a lot of time trying to figure out 
>what is wrong.
>
>> 3. We are planning to make a server running that would 
>>be 
>> a mail server, file server, web server ... all in one or 
>> two. Any suggestion please.
>
>How many users are you going to serve?
>
>> 4. If i am going to use redhat, what are the 
>> apps/utils/etc should be best to install to serve the 
>> above services.
>
>I would go Postfix for mail, Samba if you are serving 
>Windows clients for 
>file sharing and of course Apache for web.
>
>-Scott
>
>
>
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