Major features?

[ISO-8859-1] David Höhn dh at UPTIME.AT
Mon Dec 6 07:10:37 GMT 2004


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Julian Field wrote:
| Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
|
|> Julian,
|>
|> The two features that I think are most important:
|>
|> 1) Open source, uses Perl, which is open source.
|
|
|  From a corporate point of view, I am actually reluctant to include this
| in a major feature list. I would rather they discovered this by
| accident. Thoughts?

I can only second that. Since changing from the pure technical
responsibilities to the more management related ones, I have noticed
that CEOs and CTOs are _very_ reluctant when they hear a software that
protects or runs a critical infrastructure is open source. Simply
because they think "Who do I call when things break, Who can I blame".

|
|> 2) MailScanner stands BEHIND the MTA, not in front of it.  Your
|> normal MTA gets to listen to port 25, not MailScanner.  So you don't
|> have to do a major redo of your sendmail.cf file to use MailScanner.
|> You program does not attempt to mimic an MTA, unlike other things
|> (MailMonitor at Sophos comes to mind).
|
|
| This sounds too technical for a flyer, but I would like to include
| something like it. Suggestions on the wording of this one?
|
For a business flyer the rapid installation might be an important thing,
especially that you need not necessarily change your existing
infrastructure, everything else is tech talk none of them wants to hear.


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