How many businesses actually host their own mail servers? Of those, how many actually use Exchange?

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Is Exchange a nice complimentary to MCSE and CCNA/CCNP?? I guess employers are looking for users with broad skills nowadays eh. What other mail servers are there besides Exchange? Thx.

Plucky

 

[igiveup]

We are running Exchange 5.5 and NT 4.0 at my office. I would rather be running something else. Exchange can warp my brain some days. It is cranky, picky, and unintuitive. Other choices are Lotus Domino, or any Linux app (not my field or I would post some for you).

 

[stirling]

There's always sendmail, but it's also cranky, picky, and unintuitive.

 

[aimn]

We just use a box called Esoft. It was about $2500 and handles 100 clients. It doubles as a firewall. Very easy to setup and use. We just couldnt afford the exchange server and licenses needed to run it, it wasnt worth the cost. Plus its a whole new animal.

 

[Woodie]

We have Lotus Notes internally, MMS & MTA facing the Internet, and Exchange 2000 being installed internally now. (Now we too can become a virus distribution center!)

--Woodie

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

lol

 

[Saltin]

I just recently helped install an Exchange 2000 organization where I work. Not many people in the field understand it that well (I would say my knowledge is decent (I'm no expert), but the Microsoft course can only teach you so much, after that, you have to work/play with it). There is definetly a niche for it in larger companies.

 

[moonsocket]

you trying to get answers for test questions plucky

 

[Sunner]

We're running an Exchange box(unfortunately, I really really really hate the admin interface to XChange 5.5), but at least it's not on any public net, we use a UNIX box thats relaying mail from the outside.

 

[bozo1]

You'll find that most mid/large companies do their own mail - either Exchange or Notes with Exchange probably being 80% of the installations. Most small companies use an outside hosting company. (usually their ISP) The Microsoft Exchange classes will teach you about 5% of what you need to know to setup a functional and stable Exchange environment. (maybe that's why some people refer to it as 'picky', I have 20+ Exchange boxes 100% stable) If you are serious, pick up the books by Tony Redmond or Paul Robichaux - they pretty much wrote the books on Exchange.