> Many organizations, both large and small, are paying admins to put
> *n?x-based mail servers between the Internet and their internal Exchange
> servers, simply because the Exchange servers can't cope with what they
> should (configurability, spam and virus scanning, mail rejection,
> dependability, ease of backup/restore, performance etc.)
>
> My main argument would be that Exchange is not suitable for smtp mail.
> Exchange is good for groupware; Microsoft should realize that it has to
> develop and market a separate mail server.
To be fair to MS (not something they are likely to be in return) they
aren't they only company guilty of this. Oracle are almost as bad.
The problem, as I see it, is that they, as a company, do not (want to)
see things from a mail administrators point of view. They see their
product from a business PoV, a DBA PoV and a users PoV. MS are guilty
of the former and latter.
What we have to do, as mail admins, behind the scenes does not really seem
to concern anyone as long as their shiny system works*.
Mike
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