Building an MS-SA box

[Jan-Peter Koopmann]

Hi Mike,

> I appreciate the timely response, and appreciate your 
> opinion. I was not at all sure I wanted to use LDAP but its 
> now "embedded" in exchange for w2k3 which is a nice means of 
> authenticating. 

Of course it is. I still do not trust Microsoft's LDAP implementation.
With RADIUS all you can do is ask the server if the username/password
combination is valid. I know RADIUS is able to provide a bit more
information but nothing compared to LDAP. 

> I will have to check into the radius idea, I 
> havent done it this way but will look into the suggestion.

Quite simple. What MTA are you using?

> You say you have a script for the pushes?? Mind sharing to my 
> private address? 

Have a look at the FAQ:

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/faq?_highlightWords=exchange&file
=270

> Also, what else are you running in addition 
> to MS-SA??

Exim, Spamassassin, lot's of virus scanners, some RBLs, MailWatch,
MailScanner-MRTG

Regards,
  JP