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
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