I'm also maintaining my own email system for my department. We are using Imail Server from Ipswitch. It’s reliable, affordable, and easy-to-use messaging system. It only runs on a window platform. It’s features include web messaging, web calendaring, supports 128 bit SSL encryption, supports SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4, it allows you to host mail for multiple domains on a single server, it has unlimited user options, you can create mailing lists, you can setup mail delivery rules, and it also comes with an anti-Spam feature. Has a built-in monitoring and notification service if a service goes down. It has served and continues to serve the entire well. It’s easy to administer and I have been particularly happy with it, no sleepless nights. The support is great. Below is the link for those who are interested. http://www.ipswitch.com/products/IMail_Server/index.html Just love it and it’s not expensive. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: John Resotko <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: John Resotko <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:22:54 -0500 >I'm one of the system administrators on campus maintaining my own email >system for my college. Here at MSU-DCL, we currently use Groupwise 6.5 >running on a Netware server for our email, as well as >calendaring/scheduling, and some room resource mangement. As happens >every so often, I've been asked to revisit the question of what email >system we are using, and look around at the available alternatives. It >is unlikely that we would move our faculty and staff to the new >mail.msu.edu system because it lacks calendaring features, so I'm >looking at other commercial and open source systems. > >To start, I'd like to ask the members of this group if you currently >are running your own email system, and you're willing to share >information about what you use for your email? I know there are other >MSU colleges and departments that don't rely on Pilot for their email, >and I'm curious to know what your experience has been with other email >systems such as Exchange/Outlook, open source, or other commercial email >servers and applications (with version numbers where possible.) I'd also >like to know what your general experience has been working with the >product you use, and any challenges you've had in supporting the >product. If you don't wish to share this information with the group, but >are willing to share information, please respond to me directly and I >will keep that information confidential if you so indicate. > >Since I wouldn't ask without being willing to disclose my own >information: here at the Law College, Groupwise was the system of >choice here before I took over systems administration in December of >2001. The Groupwise system has successfully served our email and >calendar needs for the two years that I've been here. Most staff use >calendar features to schedule meetings, and we also use the resource >feature to create resource records for our classrooms. The calendaring >system is also used to schedule rooms available for events and special >functions held at the college. While we have technology staff trained >in creating IDs and doing some of the day-to-day administration, it is >my responsibility to also handle server maintenance, patches, and >upgrades. Other than a particularly nasty crash we had in late >October/early November, it has been a solid performer for us, and >handles most of our needs quite well. We have a moderate number of >users (approximately 200 live users plus resource accounts), and most >are well satisfied with the features in the product. > >I am curious to hear about other's experiences with their own email >systems, whether you use Groupwise or any other product for your own >email server. I thank you in advance for any information you are >willing to share. > > >John A. Resotko >Head of Systems Administration >MSU - Detroit College of Law >208 Law College Building >East Lansing, MI 48824-1300 >email: [log in to unmask] >Phone: 517-432-6836 >Fax: 517-432-6861 > > > > > -- Fred Ododa, MCSE,CCNA,CNA Network Administrator Counseling Center Michigan State University Phone: (517) 355-8270 Fax: (517) 353-5582 Email: [log in to unmask] -- --- Our policy requires that e-mail exclude any information that is legally or ethically protected from disclosure. ---