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If your looking for a light-weight, full-featured and maintenance-free groupware system, check out Kerio Mail Server. I have two installations running, works perfectly, integrates and works with everything, Mac, Windows, Linux, Thunderbird, Outlook, mobile web mail, OTA push, etc, etc. -t On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:43 PM, John Valenti wrote: > I guess I'm the opposite of Jon... the day I killed off our Exchange > 2000 server was one of the happiest of my MSU career. (the day we > ripped out the Contel BIU and switched to a DEC bridge was perhaps #1) > > We only had a small group of five staff using Exchange, and they > transferred to another unit. I setup a linux/bsd server running Exim > for distribution lists and vanity forwarding accounts. It ran > trouble free for several years, then I had to add spamd > whitelisting. I think it needed maintenance once in the two years > since then. > > I keep hoping for a good calendaring solution, but we just get by > without it. Most recently we looked at using the new web mail system > for calendars, but the users decided it wasn't worth the effort. > > I just don't think it makes sense to run Exchange for a dozen users. > -John > LIR > > > > On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Jon Galbreath wrote: > >> I’ll preface this with “if I had to give up Exchange, it’d be over >> my cold, dead body.” >> >> Now for the answers: You could still do distribution lists, but I >> think you’d have to configure them for each person, on their local >> client. I don’t believe there are any shared address books. >> >> For the calendars, I’m pretty sure it’s the same way. There aren’t >> shared calendars. >> >> Jon Galbreath >> MCSE/Security+ >> Systems Administrator >> International Studies and Programs >> Ph: 517-884-2144 >> [log in to unmask] >> >> From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >> On Behalf Of House, Blake >> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:17 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [MSUNAG] Move users from local Exchange 2003 to MSU email >> >> Can anyone share with me the pros or cons to dissolving our local >> exchange server and moving everyone over to MSU’s email. >> Currently we have about 25 users and only about 7 of them use our >> local email.. >> If we move to MSU’s email, can we still have distribution groups >> setup and can we have a separate account that we can all view each >> other’s calendar? >> >> Sorry if this info is already posted somewhere.. I just had a time >> crunch handed to me to get this info ASAP. >> >> Thanks for any info or links you can send me >> >> Blake House > -- Troy Murray Systems/Database Administrator Michigan State University Clinical And Translational Sciences Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) 100 Conrad Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-432-4248 Fax: 517-353-9420 E-mail: [log in to unmask] AOL IM: troymurray72