Is there an easy way to implement an exchange mail server?

Question

I am a total newbie in exchange. My company has email service which support imap and pop3, but the boss want to implement an exchange protocol, I read some articles said that exchange(ActiveSync) is not an open protocol, is there a way to easily learn it and implement it?

Answer 1

Aside from buying Exchange Server, you could look at building an Exchange ActiveSync implementation yourself (using the documentation here as a starting point), or use a 3rd-party implementation like Z-Push (which is open-source and free).