Re: Good Windows email server?

Charles wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:12:17 +0000 (UTC):

>> 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.
>
> Oh, come on!  It can't be that bad!  It -is- the panacea, after all!  But, 
> hey, if you want I'll let you go and argue it out in 
> microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs :)

That would also be asking for trouble. It would be like walking into a 
bikers' bar and screaming "Harleys suck!". Regardless of whether or not 
it's true, it's a bad idea :)

> And, you know, they give a lot more reasons than just the calendar.  
> Most importantly (???) they talk of automatic backups of every email - 
> so no biggie if your computer gets stolen.

Ever heard of IMAP?

It's been around a hell of a lot longer than Exchange and it fulfills 
the same purpose in that the mail is stored on the server. It's also 
compatible with almost every mail client out there, whereas you have to 
use Outlook to be able to take advantage of all of Exchange's features, 
and that means malformed e-mail going out and the inability to retrieve 
received e-mail in exactly the form it was sent to you.