MailScanner on Exchange

[Rick Cooper]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of hermit921
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: MailScanner on Exchange
>
>
> My company decided to move to Exchange for its main mail server "It's a
> Management decision".  The two people hired to manage Exchange
> claim there
> are products that run on the Exchange server that do everything
> MailScanner
> (and associated programs) can do.  I don't believe it.  Could I be wrong,
> or even mostly wrong, about this?
>

There are, one that comes to mind is GFI
(http://www.gfi.com/mailsecurity/msecfeatures.htm). But there are caveats
when it comes to pricing, support costs, etc. And, not trying to sound like
a Microsoft-phoebe, I think MS products should never be placed on the
outside of a network. If I were told we had to install exchange servers
tomorrow because the powers that be wanted to use some of the
outlook/exchange only features I would be happy to do so... behind an
Exim/MailScanner *nix box. Exchange for intranet communications is fine, if
you want to invest the $$, but Exchange should not be allowed to interact
directly with the world, IMHO.

Rick


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