What are your recommendations. I'd like to keep this < $300 if I have to pay for it at all.

10/4/2007 3:23:50 PM

exchange

10/4/2007 3:30:00 PM

what do you mean? to install on your server?

use Google Apps for Your Domain. Gmail-like interface for free
https://www.google.com/a/

10/4/2007 3:32:44 PM

horde is my personal favorite

10/4/2007 3:38:26 PM

^^ yeah I looked at google apps. Also @mail (google at mail)

that one is nice

10/4/2007 3:41:48 PM

i like how google offers that ap for free

but i'm not sure how id feel about storing my business on google's servers...

but seriously tho, squirlmail OWNS.


j/k

10/4/2007 4:14:34 PM

horde is the best.

http://www.horde.org/webmail/screenshots/imp.png

the BEST though, is microsoft's OWA client... it's amazing, even though it's microsoft.

10/4/2007 4:15:45 PM

yaaw i love owa. i can't believe that ecu uses owa and we get stuck with squirlmail tho...there are some nice configs for SM but i wish we could use owa instead

10/4/2007 4:21:48 PM

^ we don't run exchange.

10/4/2007 4:33:44 PM

Maybe you should

10/4/2007 4:38:15 PM

^^i'm sure theres a number of reasons we don't run exchange, not the lowest of them being a general hatred of Microsoft.

10/4/2007 4:40:52 PM

^^& ^ there's a rather large cost in time, manpower and $$ to move to that from the free and open-source applications that we're using to run these systems at this point.

also consider that we'd be moving 35-40k users in one migration, which would be a huge disruption, any way you slice it. in an environment where users are as decentralized as they are here, it's extremely difficult to make a change to a fundamental system component like e-mail.

10/5/2007 4:09:55 PM

a second for google apps on my domain, I like it a lot.

10/5/2007 4:54:57 PM

^^ im not saying thats why we dont SWITCH now...everyone know that would be an insane amount or work.

i'm saying that a dislike of microsoft probably played a part into why we never ran exchange etc in the first place. but what do i know, i'm just making shit up because i'm pissed we can't use owa.

10/5/2007 4:59:17 PM

^ NCSU has been a Unix-backend shop ever since the original Eos existed in the early 90's, somewhat pre-dating Exchange, I think. They just stuck with what was working at the time. Microsoft products, ironically, were the minority for so long on campus that there was never any real incentive to consider them.

10/5/2007 5:25:11 PM