Re: Email Solutions

["David Shea" <dshea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running Exchange on a clone PC - AMD K6-2/300 with a 20GB IDE drive and 256MB ram.  It supports about 200 users for mail, internet mail, usenet groups and calendaring.  Performance is fine, and the thing stays up for months at a time (very unusual for an NT box...).  One advantage to running exchange is that you can easily install a virus scanning package (I use McAfee GroupShield Exchange) and rest easy.  I'm not sure how you would scan attachments coming into an AS400 SMTP server.  You'd probably have to do the scanning on the client PC, and hope the client is up to date with the virus DAT files (or that they haven't turned it off because it'll boot faster that way...).

 

Exchange works.  It's easy to find somebody that knows how to tinker with it.  It runs on cheap hardware and won't bog down your AS400.  Outlook is free.  It's relatively easy to set up for internet mail.  It's a mature product.  Plus, you can run Outlook Web Access, which is a great gadget for getting at your email from the web without messing around with VPN's, Shiva, etc.

 

I hate to plug Micro$oft, but I think sometimes it's prudent to go with all the other lemmings.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Mark Walter

To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 3:11 PM

Subject: Email Solutions

All,

 

    Our shop is evaluating internal email solutions. I would like some opinions on utilizing the AS/400 as an internet email server as compared to something like Microsoft Exchange Server on the NT platform.

 

    The opinions of the members of this list carry a lot of weight in some of the decisions we make. I, for one, would like to thank all of the overworked AS/400 professionals for taking time out to be active members of this forum.

 

TIA

Mark Walter