Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Freddie Cash]

On Jun 1, 2012 5:34 PM, "David Magda" <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
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> On Jun 1, 2012, at 08:33, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
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> > For example if one wants an e-mail server, that is better served in the
long run by IMAP+MTA than any form of Exchange, because you are not tied to
one single platform and that vendor's lunacy. Otherwise FreeBSD runs just
fine as server for about any other OS client, provided those clients use
standard Internet protocols.
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> If all you want is e-mail, then there are certainly better options than
Exchange IMHO. However, once you get into calendars (private and shared,
with delegation to secretaries, etc.), meeting rooms, ActiveSync (to
remotely wipe lost devices), then it's a whole different game.
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> E-mail was solved a long time ago, but Exchange does many things on top
of it that many organizations find very handy, and where there doesn't seem
to be a decent open alternative.

Zimbra, Kolab, OpenGroupware, Citadel, Zarafa, and many others have filled
the gap in recent years.

Zimbra in particular is very nice to work with. Especially the for-pay
Network Edition. It's basically a drop-in replacement for Exchange, right
down to the Outlook Connector and ActiveSync support.

And the open-source version (which has the exact same web interface) is
also very nice to work with. It's just a nice GUI/DB wrapper to Postfix,
Cyrus IMAPd, MySQL, and various other OSS bits.