Speaking as a sysadmin who has to deal with this krufty, irritating, godawful product on a daily basis, I am entirely relieved that we'll soon have to port to something else. (Mmmmm... Exim....)
Openmail isn't all it's cracked up to be. The internal logic is insane. It does about seventeen disk writes every time you send a message. Restoring a single user's account involves restoring the ENTIRE SYSTEM from tape and exporting that user. Speaking of which, exporting a user's mailstore can take HOURS if they have a few megs of mail in there. And its administrative support is just generally crappy... there are no commandline tools for, for instance, turning someone's forwarding on or off.
Trust me, you folks are better off not having to deal with it.
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You mean, some of Linux's chief competitors think it's not very good?
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
Speaking as a sysadmin who has to deal with this krufty, irritating, godawful product on a daily basis, I am entirely relieved that we'll soon have to port to something else. (Mmmmm... Exim....) Openmail isn't all it's cracked up to be. The internal logic is insane. It does about seventeen disk writes every time you send a message. Restoring a single user's account involves restoring the ENTIRE SYSTEM from tape and exporting that user. Speaking of which, exporting a user's mailstore can take HOURS if they have a few megs of mail in there. And its administrative support is just generally crappy... there are no commandline tools for, for instance, turning someone's forwarding on or off. Trust me, you folks are better off not having to deal with it.