I agree...although I've been only using Exchange for about 6 months with only couple of hundrend mailboxes. There are problems....First, autorespond for scheduling has a tendency to get stuck every now and again when the autorespond mailbox does autoarchiving. Autoarchiving requires a manual response. When no one is there to respond to autoarchive, autorespond returns stops. I've turned off autoarchive for that box, however it seems to pop up every now and then. Second, Exchange occasionally has a problem with synchronization with POP...basically, it results in duplication of POP messages. Usually this occurs when the client crashes before updating the server...so it's more an Outlook/Windows thing than an Exchange problem. However, the way POP is implemented in Exchange seems wrong. POP goes to the client first, then updates Exchange. Thus, possibly creating synch problems, especially with multiple clients running through the same mailbox. As far is load is concerned, I have'nt had any problems with the dual PII 300 box. And the service has been running continuosly for at least 6 months. Plus the other features of Exchange are nice to have (ie: scheduling, tasks, contacts, etc.) I don't know of any UNIX equivalents right for those integrated services. If anyone knows, please tell.
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I agree...although I've been only using Exchange for about 6 months with only couple of hundrend mailboxes. There are problems....First, autorespond for scheduling has a tendency to get stuck every now and again when the autorespond mailbox does autoarchiving. Autoarchiving requires a manual response. When no one is there to respond to autoarchive, autorespond returns stops. I've turned off autoarchive for that box, however it seems to pop up every now and then. Second, Exchange occasionally has a problem with synchronization with POP...basically, it results in duplication of POP messages. Usually this occurs when the client crashes before updating the server...so it's more an Outlook/Windows thing than an Exchange problem. However, the way POP is implemented in Exchange seems wrong. POP goes to the client first, then updates Exchange. Thus, possibly creating synch problems, especially with multiple clients running through the same mailbox. As far is load is concerned, I have'nt had any problems with the dual PII 300 box. And the service has been running continuosly for at least 6 months. Plus the other features of Exchange are nice to have (ie: scheduling, tasks, contacts, etc.) I don't know of any UNIX equivalents right for those integrated services. If anyone knows, please tell.