[wellylug] Storing Mail in an SQL database ?

[Enkidu]

Hideously off topic - but here goes. I did my 5.5 to 2000 upgrade the
safe way. I *added* an Exch 2000 server and ran in parallel for a
while. That's my last word unless anyone wants to take it offline.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:52:47 +1300, you wrote:

>We use ex 5.5 and the only problems we have had when we botched the 
>upgrade to ex 2k - sigh - 20 hrs straight and then restored from the last 
>backup anyway - aarrrggghhhh
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com>
>To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:39:08 +1300
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Storing Mail in an SQL database ?
>
>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:02:24 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:
>> >
>> >Seriously, I know that Exchange is one monolithic
>> >mother of an application, and that Linux apps need not
>> >be so huge and bug-prone, but my experience of
>> >Exchange is that the database got corrupted not
>> >infrequently.
>> >
>> Well, my experience is that while that was certainly true of Exchange
>> 5.0 and probably true of Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 has been as solid
>> as a rock for me. 
>> 
>> (Cue jokes about MS Exchange, rocks, etc).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Cliff
>> 
>> 
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