RE: Mail Servers

Shane O'Dea ( shane@tax.affairs.net.au )
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:20:42 +0930

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From: Tim Hodge
Sent: Friday, 25 April 1997 08:56
To: 'cirovera@interaccess.cl'; Shane O'Dea
Cc: 'WINNT@listserv.optimedia.co.il'; 'ntisp@emerald.iea.com'
Subject: Re: Mail Servers

Shane,

What about MS-Exchange, it provides all those facilities ?

Cheers,

Tim.
Tim Hodge

tim.hodge@cableinet.co.uk

G'day Tim,

Good point! Two reasons it skipped my mind:

1. My ISP uses MS Exchange 5 as a POP server.
- It's down as much as it is up. I'm not sure if
the problem is MS Exchange 5 or the NT4 Name
Server. Anyhow, it's down a lot.

2. In Australia (at lease) the licencing cost of MS
Exchange is very expensive(!) compared to
similar (?) packages. For example:

MS Exchange Server 5 (5 clients) $A1479.00
MS Exchange Server 5 (10 clients) $A1969.00
MS Exchange Server 5 (25 clients) $A3249.00

Compared to:

WorldMail (10 clients) Approx. $A255.00
WorldMail (25 clients) Approx. $A427.00
WorldMail (500 clients) Approx. $A2678.00

Rockliffe - SiteMail (10 clients) $A135.00
Rockliffe - SiteMail (500 clients) $A564.00
Rockliffe - SiteMail (Unlimited clients) $A993.00

We use Exchange Server 4 (which does not support POP3) on our
internal server. It works very well and is readable.

I have not used any of the packages listed above. Maybe, MS Exchange
is a better package, but there's a lot in the price.

Regards

Shane

Shane O'Dea

shane@tax.affairs.net.au