Re: [exim] Exchange move

Hello,

I don't know exchange, but our users use, in the past MSOutlook.
2 years ago, I make a big migration of our server and I change our mail
server by exim and change pop3 server by courier-imap.
Big surprise !!! the support of imap by outlook is buggy, after the
migration, I cannot read a lot of mails because Outlook store
attachements from emails in a imap store with a winmail.dat extension.
The date management of the mail strored into the imap db it's also
bugged in outlook, ect...
The migration of the mails db take more than 4 months ..... (after I
have more white hair)
Now I replace Outlook by thunderbird all of this problems disapear.
On a linux box, I switch between evolution, kmail, webmail, thunderbird,
netscape, mozilla without problems.

Tips : Use a software tha respect the standard !!!!!!!!

Guy

Jason Meers a écrit :

>
>>> box once a month or so, but those days are long gone. I really don't
>>> know
>>> what people do to their Windows boxes if they have to reboot them
>>> "multiple
>>> times a day".
>>
>>
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>
> They run exchange, and the wonderfully designed and efficient
> "store.exe" consumes all available RAM until the server stops
> responding and kills exchange until it is rebooted. Given the choice
> of waiting for the crash to happen during work hours, or setting
> scheduled a restart a 7:00am every morning, we choose to FORCE a
> reboot every day to fix the leaks. Since we started rebooting every
> day our crashes have stopped. Re-booting every day is the ONLY way to
> keep exchange working at our sites.
>
>> They patch them. *
>>
>> At least, from observing others, that seems to be standard
>> practice (and it generally requires a reboot). Personally, I patch
>> all the Linux systems each morning if there are things that need
>> updating, during work time. No-one notices.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> * Admittedly not "multiple times a day", though.
>>
> Reboots don't have to be down to Exchange patches it's one big mess of
> Active-Directory, IIS, JET and Windows itself. Installing a new
> version of IE requires a reboot. Even plugging in a USB device can
> require a reboot.
>
> All of my problems can be fixed by adding more memory, more processors
> and usually by upgrading to the latest version. Quite often I find a
> technet article that says "this is a known problem", "we know what
> causes it", "we know how to fix it", "however we wont, upgrade to
> version XYZ, we accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMEX..."
>
> Why should anyone be forced to buy a new product if the original
> product is faulty and the manufacturer refuses to fix it (in order to
> increase sales of new products)
>
> I don't think I have ever heard anyone say Exchange is a great product
> (except sales people), I think users learn to love it and
> administrators learn to hate it and just look for ways to throw more
> resources at it to keep it up.
>
> Since replacing Exchange with Scalix a four man team has been able to
> get back to some "real" IT work which helped us reduce IT costs in a
> multi-million dollar company by 75% this year, isn't that what IT
> depts should be doing instead of trying to keep buggy software
> together or just constantly handing out the protection money for new
> versions.
>
> Jason
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