Re: Sunfire 240 and Sun One messaging

From: W.B (civikminded_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:19:00 -0600

Thanks for your response.
>
> Yes, I'm saying that switching from a user-managed POP3/sendmail
> environment where all you need to worry about is the size of your
> /var/mail and /var/spool/mqueue filesystems to an IT-managed environment
> that really can't be automated very well. You'll need to manage user's
> public folders and their abuse of them, their email quota and when they
> go over, and calendaring stuff.

Our current setup uses an amalgum of tricks, hacks, configs to do the
things that an exchange server does like group schedules, free/busy, user
directory, etc.. It has become troublesome maintaing all these weird
configurations, as well as 3 different versions of Outlook, so I want a
client/server combo that does these things naitively. Plus I want to be
able share a single calandar across many users, something I cannot do with
POP/SMTP Outlook.

> Be sure to buy lots of extra disk--users will find all sorts of stuff to
> put on it now that they have more. And don't forget backing all this up
> and writing procedures to restore user mailboxes (which _you_ now manage
> instead of them).

None of the Outlook .PST's are backed up *AT ALL* currently. Wouldnt
having it all centralized actually make the backup job *EASIER*? I have a
decent CA Brightstor setup in place, with a 10 cart loader.

> If Exchange is easier to run and maintain, hold your nose and buy it.
> But my guess is that you'll still have to offer the extended services
> because _you_ will be managing the user's mail (and all those extra
> services) rather than _the user_.

Exchange might be the most viable option as much as I hate to admit it.

> There may be a lot of pressure from users to offer this service but are
> your "Powers That Be" willing to spend the money to support and maintain
> the environment? Or will all this just be added to your current duties?

I would be maintaining whatever we purchase. Much of my workload already
is devoted to messaging, I'm hoping to simplify!

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