Seven mail servers tested
Summary: Exchange might be the most popular but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Editor's choiceThere are three Editor's Choice winners this month, each covering a very specific category.
For those looking for a robust, powerful, and reliable mail system with limited bells and whistles then Sendmail is the winner. For those SMEs needing a simple-to-install and manageable e-mail server system with good support then Novell OpenExchange Server 4 is the winner with Kerio MailServer 6 coming a close second.
And for those needing a server with the majority of bells and whistles covered then it is a closely run race between IBM and Microsoft with Microsoft just pipping IBM at the post.
This article was first published in Technology & Business magazine.
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Sorry? And MS costs almost as much for 25 users as Domino does for 200 users!? And your rating is 3.5 to 4.5!
I am not a raving Domnio person either - I have installed a demo, but not fully committed to either: In fact I need Scenario 0.5 - 100 users, mulitple offices.
Which I guess is somewhere else IBM comes ahead - you can run multiple servers, as it is licensed *per user*. Unlike Exchange, whose cost skyrockets if you want redundancy!
Your report seems to have some bias in that it also did not price MSeX for wither Scenario - just gave one simple price!