Mail Server / Exchange Server

[Patton Echols]

Thanks for the reply, reformatted for future users, question below:

On 04/11/2011 05:49 PM, Christian Costa wrote:
>
> On 12/04/2011 12:10, Patton Echols wrote:
>> Greetings all:
>>
>> My 'buntu usage has been limited to my desktop and intranet / backup 
>> servers.  My questions concerns the real time difficulty of 
>> maintaining a mail server for a small organization.
>>
>> First, once up and running, is the routine maintenance of a mail 
>> server particularly difficult or time consuming?
>>
>> Second, <noob mode=elevated> The organization's current service 
>> limits the number of emails per day.  The service says "everyone does 
>> it that way"  If hosting ones own service, isn't it just a function 
>> of bandwidth?
>>
>> Third, If my mail server is a virtual server in a data center 
>> somewhere, and serve mail out of it, does my server deliver mail 
>> through some other provider's server?  Or direct to recipients?  If 
>> the answer is "either" how does one decide?
>>
>> Finally, the organization's mail is currently hosted on a  exchange 
>> server, but I am told that it is really only being used for mail.  
>> Does anyone know what else an exchange server can do that is useful? 
>> and or is there a particularly "fine manual" that I should read?
>> </noob>
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>> --PE
>>
>>
> I'm currently using iRedmail. It's easy to set up and opensource. 
> http://www.iredmail.org. It's sort of plug and play and you will get 
> lots of functionality out of the box.
>
Do you know enough about exchange server to know how iredmail compares?