Re: Good Windows email server?

Mr K. Mean wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:20:21 +0100:

> 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.

There are other solutions for that. Not that I can name any since I have 
no need for that kind of thing anyway, but I can't believe MS is the 
only vendor to provide that kind of thing.

Who wants their mail server to do calendar stuff anyway?

> 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.

It's also highly recommended to do so anyway and put it in front of the 
Exchange server so that it isn't facing the 'Net directly. Unless you 
know exactly what you're doing and/or you have someone on call to apply 
patches the minute they're available, exposing MS-Exchange directly to 
the 'Net is asking for trouble.