[PLUG] Linux as mailserver for small corporate office: advisable for newbies?

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

I work in an office with about 15 people.  We have a machine running 
Windows XP and MDaemon (http://www.altn.com/) as our mailserver.  The 
hardware's about 4 years old and struggling under its load.

We could just replace the hardware, and a dual-core CPU would allow us 
to take advantage of MDaemon's newest release being a multithreaded app.

I have been using linux at home for years but really as a desktop, so 
have no familiarity with MTAs.  Are there any products (including 
commercial ones) that are designed to be administered by people with no 
linux experience?  (I don't want to have to be the only one who can do 
anything).  Are they any good?

Would there be any concrete advantages in a small office setting to 
going that route vs. just XP and MDaemon on a new machine, given that 
the rest of the office is an XP/2000 monoculture?

Greg Helledy

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