Re: Good Windows email server?

D-W-S wrote:
> Charles wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:31:05 +0000 (UTC):
> 
>> If we bring email in house we have to deal with a lot of things - and 
>> buy software or plugins to deal with spam, viruses and backups.  Do 
>> the benefits outweigh the costs in additional maintenance and 
>> software?
> 
> If you don't use Microsoft products on a Net-facing machine and rather 
> stick with industry standard software (a real MTA on a Unix O/S) 
> instead, then your costs in terms of initial outlay and maintenance are 
> *lower* than with a MS system.
> 
> In the long term it's also probably cheaper then outsourcing your mail.

I think the one thing you will get with Exchange that doesn't really 
have a suitable equivalent is the calendar stuff.  But since you don't 
have that now, you probably won't miss it.

Do you have to host it on Windows?  I'm not sure I can think of a 
suitable industrial strength mail MTA unless sendmail or postfix run 
under Windows too.  Or maybe run them under Cygwin.  But it wouldn't be 
too tough to set up a Linux or whatever server and put a decent email 
server with backup and those other nice things.