Exchange Sucks
IWLTA that Exchange is a piece of crap. I always thought it was a decent mailing system, and it certainly has the best integration of mail/calendar of any server out there. Boy was I wrong.
A couple of weeks ago, our Exchange server at work crashed and burned. I mean hard. No incoming email, no access to archived email, nothing. The reason for this? Get this, it has a built in limit of 16 GB! That’s right, you cannot store more than 16 GB of mail in your this Exchange server. And if you do hit the limit, exchange crashes. Not stops and complains, chrashes. And, deleting mail doesn’t free space, you have to delete the mail and then run some offline database compression program to actually get the space back. And, if you hit the 16 GB limit, you can’t start Exchange back up after it crashes to get the space back, you have to run the compression program and hope it gets enough space back to bring exchange back up so that you can delete mail so that you can take exchange back down so that you can run the compression program so that… You get the picture.
Anyway, here we are, weeks later, and mail still takes hours to be delivered, and that’s mail sent from inside the company. With any open source setup, there wouldn’t have been any stupid limit, and even if it crashed, we could have built and installed a replacement server in a day. No go with exchange.
Microsoft? You suck.
