Here's an opposing view:-
One thing I like about mdaemon is that all messages are immediately available for manipulation using DOS commands if necessary, rather than being in what I believe is a proprietary, monolithic blob (which needs special tools to prod it). The mailstore can get as large as the hard drive, but can be spread over different disks - one person's mailbox can be on one disk, another on another - mdaemon is flexible at the ubiquitous file structure level. Yes that is a disadvantage in terms of file accessibility, time taken to do global operations with data can be quite time consuming, but there is never a need to take mdaemon out of service whilst doing file maintenance operations. Maintenance of messages is a doddle, you can cut messages out of a mail directory, paste them elsewhere using Windows Explorer - so long as one knows what one is doing.
If you really want to do massive searches for text occurrences within the mailstore, there is a third-part indexer which uses SQL.
Another is the immediate access I have to look at - for example - SMTP transactions as they occur in real-time.
My biggest client using Mdaemon? A company with around 50 employees... who moved away from Exchange (We migrated them over a weekend)., this was a fair few years ago, they have never looked back.
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by: HousammuhannaPosted on 2008-09-12 at 03:38:54ID: 22458426
Hi
Listen, for me . MDEAMON is a small Email program that can be used for network that is abuot 10 user or maybe 30 users with a small information store, I mean Data is not that important, but when you are talking abuot 25 GB of Information store, this meant that you have a lot of data, and as you post this Q
This mean that you really care about your Data avaliblity,
I've been working with exchange for onky 4 years, and its as other software have a problems, but I can handle all of them, what about Public Folder its allways working Perfect, what kind of problem you have, and if you dont like Public Folder, Use Sharepoint, and what about GAL, its normal to have these errors when you install the exchange as it did not read all the users from your AD, just it need some time, and as I understand you are doing alot of search for such a GAL problem and you for sure find a lot of users (including me) are talking about GAL, but this depend on the network, you can not compare your small network with multiple Child domain network with a forstwide trust network that work as asingle network, for sure there will be more problem, but in your case, you shouid not have A problem, and everything shoudld be working fine.
Anyway, MDEAMON is NEVER will be like exchange 2007 for example, here in 2007 or 2003 you have MAPI connectivity and its compaitble with ISA, and also enabled Active Sync, users can just say the way they need to access the Emails and its already done by exchange, in 2007 as your network is small No fear from Database curruption, as you have LCR (local Continuas replication) and you can switch to the other working database Easily, MDEAMON dont talk with MAPI and also Dont read the users From Active Directory (sorry I am not that good with this software)
what about your information store, there is a tool in MS that can do a defragment for your EDB called ESEUTIL, located in the BIN Directory, use it will really reduse the size
for me, Exchange is the best, and no matter what problem I face.
another thing
Dont think that you will run from exchange 2007 to MDeamon just to finish of problem you have in exchange, Mdeamon is a software made by human, and it MUST have also problems, you will find them later when you work,
So if you know how to work in exchange, I recommend that you stay on it
Dont migrate