MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

[Duo]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

>
> Actually I don't agree with that statement Duo.  Every new version of
> Exchange has gotten bigger, fatter, more complex, slower, and harder
> and harder to troubleshoot when there is a problem.  Sure there are
> more features, but the price is the black box has gotten so large that
> you cannot fix anything in it anymore.

yes, that was exactly my point, I was agreeing. Embrace and Extend, as a 
policy has worked for Microsoft, by embracing a standard, extending it in 
a proprietary manner, hooking people in, and then trapping them in a 
system.

>>
>> I prefer to take the choice out of the users hands. MDaemon
>> virus scans
>> mail as it comes in. Users never get a chance to possibly infect
>> their system.
>>
>
> Today it is completely irresponsible to set up a corporate mailsystem
> that lacks mandatory virus scanning.
>

Indeed, again, I agree. This is why my mailserver scans, as well as the 
desktop. I think you may have misunderstood my Point of view on this Ted. 
=)


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