The new Microsoft’s Exchange 2003 service pack comes with the so-called “Direct Push” key enhancement being the ability to push new e-mail directly to mobile devices and eliminates the need for Microsoft mail servers to notify remote users of new e-mail via text messages. Other new features includes, new calendar appointments, contacts and task notifications can also be automatically sent out and support for Sender ID.
Before everyone else!!!!
I do. Because or company mailserver is already screwed up (already Exchange installed).
Serious – 5% of fthe time, it forgets about it’s own mailboxes. Senders get a “recipient not in this organisation” error. Maybe something wich AD / DNS, but thill – only 5% of the time. And all is so neatly integrated and made “user-friendly” that finding the cause of the error is nearly impossible. So, SP2 can’t make it much worse. If it doesn’t work, I just replace it with postfix + dovecot + squirrelmail, only disadvantage is that there is no real equivalent to the shared calendars, which are excellent in outlook and exchange.
If you are thinking about replacing it anyway, why not kill your current install of Exchange and redo it?
because of the time it will cost. and with these negative experiences with exchange, i’ll just replace it with something more stable if i’m going to throw that much time on it
Exchange is the most widely used e-mail server software currently. I honestly doubt that the problem is with Exchange, or perhaps some fluke thing in this install.
My idea is you’ve already spent money on Exchange. You already have experience with Exchange.
IMO, it would cost more to switch to something else than to start over with Exchange from scratch.
it’s NOT the most widely used mail software, exept for small offices
and yes, I do have experience with postfix, dovecot. they never let me down. contrast that to the shitty exchange…
Why not?
Updates should always be implemented in a testenvironment first anyway.
For production environment, its an entirely different matter
Test, test, test, test…. then rollout.
we installed it yesterday – minutes after we found it
we have 2 exchange servers… and they still work just fine
nt
I’d rather die of AIDS than use any software from Microsoft.
Anonymous (IP: 140.247.62.—) – are you always this stupid or its your birthday today? lol
Admins that would rather just switch to something else instead of figuring out the solution to the problem are what give products bad names. What will you switch to once you install/configure postfix incorrectly and blame it on something that they changed since the last time you used it?
Is there also some sort of calendar, contacts, public folders, notes, journal, and tasks integrated in this dovecot? Or will you have to piece that together, with whichever versions of whatever you decide to use are dependent on?
Just some obvious questions
As far as Exchange not being most widely used…I am sure there are less instances of it installed than other mail servers, but I think the other person was getting at market share… http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/08/23/lotus-microsoft-email-c…