On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 15:15 +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good evening from Singapore, > > I am torn between deploying Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Linux-based > SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, qmail and exim. > > Relative ease of installation and configuration is an important > consideration factor. You don't say anything about your user population, which may strongly influence the right answer. Are they all Windows users, Linux users, mixed? > Microsoft Exchange 2016, Domain Controller, and Active Directory are > relatively easy to install and configure. Linux-based SMTP servers are > extremely difficult to install and configure and of course, extremely > time-consuming. > > One of the features of Microsoft Exchange 2016 is that you can create > additional folders on your Inbox in the server (server-side). Can > Linux-based SMTP servers do that? This has nothing to do with SMTP. SMTP is a mail transport protocol, not a mail service protocol. Your question as stated doesn't really make sense. However, since you ask about server-side folders, the answer is to use IMAP, which supports this directly. You can do this with Exchange, if you're happy to run that, or with Cyrus, Dovecot and a number of other Linux-based solutions. Note that if you run Exchange without enabling IMAP support, you will limit the kind of MUAs (mail clients) your users can use. You should also note that Exchange has a seat-based licensing cost and manages more than just email, e.g. calendaring, task management etc. These can all be done on Linux as well, but usually with more setup for the admin. Only you can know if that represents value in your use case. > Does Exchange 2016 offer more user-friendly features or Linux-based > SMTP servers? > > Besides the above considerations, how about security? Traditionally, > Linux is far more secure than Windows. > > Judging by security, Linux-based SMTP servers ought to have a higher percentage of the market share? What kind of security are you talking about? If you run Exchange it means running a Windows server vs a Linux server for other options. I guess most of us here would prefer a Linux server, but if you're basically a Windows shop then you will know what is involved. As regards email security per se, that's really much more dependent on what your users are running. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/6CUA4BUUOCYTLCPEPQND6FT3Q6J5RV7A/
