Automatically moving marked mails?

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Fri Jul 3 11:02:54 EDT 2009



--On 3 July 2009 09:25:06 -0500 Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:02:35AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>>
>> I really don't know anyone, neither amongst home-based users nor
>> corporate e-mail users, who truly believe they're better off with an
>> MS-Exchange server handling their e-mail, especially if they've
>> previously used a decent IMAP client connected to a Cyrus server.  Most
>> folks put up with it because they don't have any choice and that's
>> because their IT guy got a good free game of golf or similar from the
>> sales guy who sold him up the creek on using Exchange.
>
> There's pressure here too to move from Cyrus to Microsoft Exchange.
> It seems to be coming from administrators rather than students.
>
> Is there someplace an unbiased comparison of the two?  I see lots of
> negative reports about Exchange, but they mostly come from people who
> are using another product based on open standards.

I was speaking to a friend who provides Exchange servers for small 
businesses locally. He says that the most important thing is to have a 
really good (fast, available and accurate) disaster recovery procedure, 
because you need it a lot.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
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