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Try open-xchange or Blue Mind
If upon sending mail your message get stuck in the Drafts folder (if using OWA), verify that you have set the DNS servers accordingly within Exchange, and not just only on your NIC. You'd be able to set it in EAC > Servers, edit your server, DNS lookups and configure internal and external DNS lookups with the right NIC. Subsequently in your mail flow tab adjust / create the send and receive connectors and don't forget to build your list of accepted domains.
If you send an e-mail from external to your exchange server, which won't get delivered, what's the message the NDR is giving you in return?
Maybe this is not neccesary to mention.... but do check that your transport service is started...
Aside from syncing contacts, calendars, and tasks, what does exchange email do better than POP3/IMAP/SMTP?
@rajprakash: Exchange transport rules are easy to configure. They reroute incoming emails in very flexible ways; we use them a lot. Also: Exchange has a built-in mechanism to centrally archive emails (this requires a special client access license), basically the enabled user has two mailboxes, and email can flow from the primary to the archival one. It is easy to grant access rights to another user's selected mailbox folders, and to recover deleted emails.
I believe that most Exchange mail-related functions can be recreated on a open mail server, but the required effort is not worth the expense for a small organization (tens to few hundreds users); on top of that, according to my experience, it is difficult to find skilled support beyond the basics on open mail servers.
On a bigger installation with a dedicated linux administrator the opposite may be true.
Hadn't heard of rainloop before. Even though I deal with Exchange 90% of the time, I'm always on the lookout for new/(RoundCube alternatives) IMAP/POP3 WebGUI's.
Rainloop is probably the best option for this, I can confidently say that RoundCube is not my ideal and is one of the big reasons I chose not to go back to cPanel before.
I'll definitely try it out.
Take a look at Smartermail. They claim to be an exchange alternative, and is as simple as cPanel to install and use.
Also - you might want to consider Zentyal - Open Source Exchange. We have been playing about with it recently, and so far - impressed.
http://www.zentyal.org/server/
Thanks, if we decide we want to change our email servers again this does look like the closest option to Exchange without having to mess with the install of Exchange.
What about open x-change?