MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

[Mike Jeays]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing 
> to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware 
> virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would 
> be stable (sopken in terms of windows stability). The next consideration 
> would be the performance of the overal setup.
> 
> Any hints or suggenstions would be great.
> 
> thx
> 
> Christian
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I have never heard of anyone using Exchange on a non-Windows machine,
and I can't see much point.  The license fee for Exchange swamps the OS
license.  I expect you could run VMWare with Windows as a guest OS, but
for something as critical as your mail server, I would dedicate a
Windows machine to it. I doubt it would work with WINE.

Basically, if you have to hold your nose to run Exchange, you may as
well hold it a little tighter and run Windows.  If not, look at
FreeBSD/Sendmail-or-Postfix/Evolution as a very reliable mail service.