Re: Sendmail

[Sean Jewett <sean@rimboy.com>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Ray Holtz wrote:

> How robust is Sendmail?  can it handle daily mail requirements for 500+ 
> employees?

Well, it handles 12,000+ employees split across 3-4 servers on a daily 
basis at my office.  They're getting ready to up that to 8 though because 
they're putting some antivirus and spam detection software on the servers 
(right now antivirus is handled and via an external server(s)).  

So yes, it should be more than enough.  As someone pointed out, with some 
tweaking.  

> Also, what is the Opensource replacement for MS Exchange?  I've heard it in 
> the past but have forgotten.

Novell had something IIRC and there are several others.  I'd take a look 
at Freshmeat.net to see what might be available. 

> I'm helping a friend try to get his company to "upgrade" to some Linux 
> servers

Well, if they're already smoking the exchange pipe then it's going to be 
tough.  On the other hand if they're not using the "features" of exchange 
it might be a little bit easier.

Sean...

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