4) Exchange 2000 still does not have reasonable email address management tools for business. The "Recipient Policies" application of addresses is overhead which does not provide the promised flexibility, IMO. The most damning issues come down to the fact that it is easiest, in Exchange, to administrate a complicated email address ruleset by proliferating mailboxes, which equates to buying more licenses. Using Exim as a hub allows Exchange to do what it was designed to do: permit each mailbox to have one and only one email address.
Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu@???
Exim 3 as an incoming hub for Exchange 2000:
http://www.aminus.org/rbre/work/eximhub.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin P. Fleming [
mailto:kpfleming@cox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:37 AM
To: exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim relaying to exchange or lotus
Daniel Starin wrote:
> I heard that a lot of system admins use exim to relay mail
> to an internal exchange server. What is the purpose of this?
> Thanks,
>
There are many reasons:
- Exchange can be hard (if not impossible) to completely secure
against hacking/DOS
- Exchange does not offer the level of access control, filtering, etc.
that Exim does, leading to more junk mail being accepted
- Exchange is not entirely RFC-compliant and occasionally has trouble
accepting legitimate mail from senders that expect full compliance
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