Exchange vs Internet Anywhere mail server

[Thunderbirdaholic]

I'm trying to sell the company I'm working for on an upgrade to exchange from the True North software they use right now. Unfortunately no one there is good enough to set up a linux solution so that's out of the question. We have been hit by a lot of viruses lately and I want to find something that is more secure than what we use. Is exchange with Innoculate It's exchange option better that what we use now if I keep it updated? I'm so tired of trying to go behind and clean up all this crap and I'm fairly new to administration. They hired me as a support specialist and now I'm doing it all...I'm not qualified but I need to do the best I can. Can someone help me out here?

 

[BFG10K]

I'd definitely use Microsoft Exchange in conjuction with Norton Antivirus Corporate edition. Norton can scan your entire system (including the whole of Exhange) in realtime and it automatically fixes all incoming and outgoing emails.

 

[Thunderbirdaholic]

We recently switched from norton because of bad luck we'd been having with it. What I want to know is, why does everyone use exchange, what all options does it feature that a generic mail product doesn't?

 

[Chatterjee]

True North email server sucks... it's buggy as hell.

-S

 

[bignick]

Well the reason my organization uses Exchange is the global address list (it's just an LDAP service), web access, shared calendar, and the other coloboration crap (which no one even uses). If you wanted an exchange like email server, take a look at Ipswitch's Imail server. It has LDAP, and webmail built in. If you're really creative you could just use active directory in windows 2000 as your LDAP server (that's all active directory really is). You could look into Usa.net, they used to do exchange email hosting.