On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:39:07PM +0000, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > I am torn between deploying Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Linux-based > SMTP servers like sendmail, postfix, qmail and exim. > > Relative ease of installation and configuration is an important > consideration factor. > > Microsoft Exchange 2016, Domain Controller, and Active Directory are > relatively easy to install and configure. Linux-based SMTP servers are > extremely difficult to install and configure and of course, extremely > time-consuming.
This is not the case at all. > One of the features of Microsoft Exchange 2016 is that you can create > additional folders on your Inbox in the server (server-side). Can > Linux-based SMTP servers do that? SMTP doesn't create folders. SMTP handles mail traffic between machines. Then some sort of delivery agent is responsible for storing those messages. Those messages might be stored: - in a database - in system-wide mailboxes - in users' mailboxes - in users' home directories - or not stored immediately, and instead run through filtering systems which might drop messages, store them, send them to other addresses, manage mailing lists, or take other actions. > Does Exchange 2016 offer more user-friendly features or Linux-based > SMTP servers? This is not a sensible question. Users don't interact with either of these systems. Users interact with their local mail agents. > Besides the above considerations, how about security? Traditionally, > Linux is far more secure than Windows. Only if you manage them both properly. > Judging by security, Linux-based SMTP servers ought to have a higher > percentage of the market share? Linux SMTP servers carry a much larger percentage of mail in general. Market share is irrelevant unless you're trying to sell something. > Finally, I can only use Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation Copy FREE for > a period of 3 years MAXIMUM. But I can use Linux servers and Mail Transport > Agents (MTA) FREE perpetually. > > Please advise. I advise you to learn more about how mail works. This will be much easier on Linux systems, because the details are not hidden from you. -dsr-
